Alphabet IncGOOGBUYJan 28, 2026Stock 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.
Out of the mega-caps, this one is probably in the best position. Really well-positioned on the hardware side (CPUs), and the ad side has a strong moat both in Search and YouTube. This gives them hardware and software exposure. Strong position in quantum computing -- won't move the needle in the short term, but you want exposure and this name is less risky.
Stock's already reflecting a lot of this. Her firm's sweet spot is $1B-100B market cap, so she's not in this name. But thinks it would screen pretty well.