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Alphabet

GOOGL
74
Internet Content & Information · Communication Services
Also trades as: GOOG.NE USD 53.52 (-2.30%) · ABEA.F EUR 302.70 (-2.86%) · GOOGL.SW CHF 296.15 (+0.24%)
Price
$340.59
-8.63 (-2.47%)
Market Cap
$4.15T
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
74
Winston is happy
A high-quality business with solid fundamentals.
Data as of Oct 18, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026

§How the score breaks down

Quality
Strong
25/30
Growth
Exceptional
20/20
Cash Flow
Good
5/10
Stability
Exceptional
10/10
Valuation
Mixed
4/10
Ownership
Good
8/15
Dividends
Mixed
2/5

74 of 100 counted points = Winston Score 74.

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Share count falling — buybacks

−9.8% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 13.55B (2021) → 12.23B (2025)

§Winston Score History

The full picture

Alphabet is the parent company of Google, the world's most widely used search engine. It also owns YouTube, the largest online video platform, and provides cloud computing services through Google Cloud. Its products serve billions of everyday users, businesses, and advertisers across nearly every country on Earth.

Alphabet makes most of its money by selling digital advertising — when businesses pay to show ads in Google Search results or on YouTube. Google Cloud adds a growing stream of revenue by charging companies to store data and run software on Google's servers. Alphabet operates globally and its dominance in search gives it a powerful competitive moat, since advertisers follow the users and users rarely switch away from Google. The key growth driver is Google Cloud competing against Amazon and Microsoft for enterprise cloud spending, while the main risk is increasing regulatory pressure from governments worldwide that could force changes to how Google runs its advertising and search businesses.

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+24.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+296.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$61.1B/ year

↑ Rising (+24% vs prior year)

15.2% of revenue

In line with sector average (12%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

9.7%ownership

→ Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

5+ years

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

$373.9B cash & investments at current burn rate

Heavy R&D investment

Alphabet is putting 15% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. With 10+ years of cash runway, they have time to let it pay off.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
61.6%
Premium pricing power — 61.6% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
34.0%
Excellent — 34.0% operating margin
Return on the money invested
ROCE
20.0%
Strong — 20.0% return on capital

ROIC between 15% and 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns 15 to 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+20.1%
Fast-growing sales (+20.1% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
+112.4%
Earnings growing fast (+112.4% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
8/8 quarters
Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
76%
Modest — 76% of profit becomes cash
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
11.9%
Modest free cash flow (11.9%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
0.15
Conservative — low debt load (0.15)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
295.98x
Comfortably covers interest (296.0x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
16.9x
Fair value — P/E 16.9

P/E in the normal range. Price is roughly $15 for every $1 of yearly profit.

Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
-2.0
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend
Dividend Yield
0.26%
Small dividend — 0.26% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend record
Dividend Growth
+4.9%
Dividend growing modestly (4.9% YoY)
Payout Ratio
4%
no trend
Pays out a modest share of profit and keeps the rest to reinvest. Room to keep paying through a weak year.

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