Alphabet Inc. $GOOG Stock Position Trimmed by Vantage Wealth

Vantage Wealth cut its stake in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) by 7.5% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 104,625 shares of the information services provider’s stock after selling 8,525 shares during the quarter. Alphabet comprises approximately 5.5% of Vantage Wealth’s holdings, making the stock its largest holding. Vantage Wealth’s holdings in Alphabet were worth $25,434,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of GOOG. IFS Advisors LLC grew its holdings in Alphabet by 400.0% during the 2nd quarter. IFS Advisors LLC now owns 150 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 120 shares during the last quarter. Robbins Farley boosted its position in shares of Alphabet by 60.0% during the second quarter. Robbins Farley now owns 160 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $28,000 after buying an additional 60 shares during the period. WestEnd Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of Alphabet by 58.7% during the second quarter. WestEnd Advisors LLC now owns 165 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $29,000 after buying an additional 61 shares during the last quarter. University of Illinois Foundation bought a new position in shares of Alphabet during the second quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Finally, Fairman Group LLC raised its holdings in shares of Alphabet by 121.3% in the second quarter. Fairman Group LLC now owns 177 shares of the information services provider’s stock worth $31,000 after buying an additional 97 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 27.26% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Alphabet news, insider John Kent Walker sold 17,816 shares of Alphabet stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $247.42, for a total value of $4,408,034.72. Following the transaction, the insider owned 42,985 shares in the company, valued at $10,635,348.70. The trade was a 29.30% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CEO Sundar Pichai sold 32,500 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, October 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $250.15, for a total transaction of $8,129,875.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 2,369,619 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $592,760,192.85. The trade was a 1.35% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold 228,906 shares of company stock valued at $63,984,117 over the last 90 days. Corporate insiders own 12.99% of the company’s stock.

Key Stores Impacting Alphabet

Here are the key news stories impacting Alphabet this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Alphabet agreed to buy Intersect Power for roughly $4.75B to secure clean energy and data?center build capacity — a strategic, near?term solution to power constraints for AI workloads that supports faster cloud/AI deployments and reduces execution risk on capacity. Intersect acquisition
• Positive Sentiment: Google Cloud momentum: analysts and reports point to strong enterprise AI demand, a large backlog (~$155B reported) and major security deals (multi?year Palo Alto tie?ups) that underpin durable revenue and margin upside for the cloud business. Google Cloud outlook
• Neutral Sentiment: Market/analyst positioning: several firms reiterated or raised targets and ratings (BMO, Citi, others), and MarketBeat frames the recent pullback as consolidation not trend breakdown — supports longer?term investor conviction but is less likely to trigger sharp moves absent new fundamentals. Analyst sentiment & pullback
• Neutral Sentiment: Nvidia licensed Groq tech and hired Groq engineers — important for AI chip competition and infra dynamics but only an indirect/medium?term factor for Alphabet (affects cloud GPU/TPU competitive landscape). Nvidia-Groq deal
• Negative Sentiment: Waymo operational issue: a San Francisco power outage stalled robotaxis, prompting fleetwide software updates and a regulator review — a reputational and regulatory risk that could slow commercialization timelines or invite oversight. Waymo outage & response
• Negative Sentiment: Short interest has risen materially in December (roughly +34.8% from late November to ~56.15M shares as of Dec. 15), which increases downside pressure and could amplify volatility on negative headlines or weak tape days.
• Negative Sentiment: Legal risk: a high?profile suit alleges unlawful use of copyrighted material to train AI models (plaintiff includes NYT reporter John Carreyrou) — a sector?wide legal exposure that could produce litigation costs or constraints on model training practices. NYT reporter lawsuit

Alphabet Stock Performance

GOOG stock opened at $315.47 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 1.75 and a quick ratio of 1.75. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $293.83 and a 200 day moving average price of $238.02. The company has a market capitalization of $3.81 trillion, a P/E ratio of 31.11, a PEG ratio of 1.82 and a beta of 1.07. Alphabet Inc. has a 1-year low of $142.66 and a 1-year high of $328.67.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, October 30th. The information services provider reported $2.87 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.29 by $0.58. Alphabet had a net margin of 32.23% and a return on equity of 35.00%. The company had revenue of $102.35 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $99.90 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $2.12 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 15.9% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Alphabet Inc. will post 8.89 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Alphabet Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, December 15th. Investors of record on Monday, December 8th were paid a $0.21 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, December 8th. This represents a $0.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.3%. Alphabet’s payout ratio is 8.28%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities analysts recently issued reports on GOOG shares. Citigroup restated a “market outperform” rating on shares of Alphabet in a report on Wednesday, December 17th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “buy (b)” rating on shares of Alphabet in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Mizuho set a $325.00 price target on shares of Alphabet in a report on Thursday, October 30th. Wolfe Research raised their price target on shares of Alphabet from $290.00 to $350.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 30th. Finally, Pivotal Research reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $400.00 price objective (up previously from $350.00) on shares of Alphabet in a report on Friday, December 5th. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have assigned a Buy rating, three have issued a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $313.04.

Alphabet Company Profile

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a multinational technology holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Formed in 2015 through a corporate restructuring of Google, Alphabet serves as the parent to Google LLC and a portfolio of businesses collectively known as “Other Bets.” Google was originally founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin; Alphabet is led by CEO Sundar Pichai, who oversees Google and the broader company while the founders remain prominent shareholders and influential figures in the company’s history.

Alphabet’s core business centers on internet search and advertising, with Google Search and the company’s ad platforms (including Google Ads and AdSense) generating the majority of revenue by connecting advertisers with consumers worldwide.