Alphabet Inc Class C

Alphabet Inc., which is headquartered in Mountain View, California, acts as a renowned American international technology conglomerate and holding firm, overseeing its subsidiary networks. Alphabet ranks as the third-largest tech firm globally by revenue (after Amazon and Apple), the largest by profit, and one of the world’s most valuable enterprises. Formed via a Google restructuring on October 2, 2015, it serves as the parent entity for Google and several former Google subsidiaries. Traded on Nasdaq’s large-cap segment under ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG, both stock classes are components of major indices like the S&P 500 and NASDAQ-100. The company is counted among the Big Five U.S. tech giants, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.

The establishment of Alphabet Inc. was driven by a goal to streamline Google’s core operations and enhance accountability, while granting greater autonomy to group companies in non-Internet service sectors. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced their executive resignations in December 2019, with Sundar Pichai—also Google’s CEO—assuming the CEO role. Page and Brin remain employees, board members, and controlling shareholders of Alphabet Inc.