Alphabet IncGOOGBUYNov 24, 2025Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jul 10, 2026. Market Open.
Fears that AI would eat its lunch. Harder for Anthropic to monetize a new tool than for GOOG to take AI and apply it to a business model that it already monetizes. Muscle memory of the populace gravitates to GOOG to find information. Probably thrives in the new AI world, until something more disruptive comes along.
AI monetization is happening, and AI Mode has been a game changer. Stronger cloud growth (revenue grew 63% YOY last quarter, tremendous), broader monetization across platforms. Search and advertising remain strong, lots of cashflow. Also a great ecosystem.
Good growth, but relatively decent valuation. Yield is 0.25%.
A year ago, consensus was that Search was going to die. Seems ridiculous now. Gemini is overtaking ChatGPT. Data centre business is growing faster than before. Still not that expensive. He hasn't sold any shares yet, but may take some off the table from the long-term holding and put toward one of the Mag 7 laggards.
Like many, ChatGPT blew him away three years ago, but now he's migrating to Gemini, which has unbelievably dethroned ChatGPT. GOOG shares have rocked 68% this year as many realize that GOOG was undervalued vs. the rest of the Mag 7. Then, GOOG went into overdrive as people saw Gemini 3 and were blown away. GOOG already had an advantage, because GOOG knew how to link their search engine to Gemini seamlessly. Genius.