Key Stats for Alphabet Stock
- 1-month price change for Alphabet stock: 15%
- $GOOGL Share Price as of May. 19: $388
- 52-Week High: $409
- $GOOGL Stock Price Target: $428
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What Happened?
Alphabet (GOOGL) stock is getting a double boost — a strong earnings quarter and a massive vote of confidence from Berkshire Hathaway.
Berkshire’s latest SEC filing revealed it increased its Alphabet stake by 224% in Q1 2026. That makes the Google parent Berkshire’s seventh-largest holding, worth $16.6 billion.
- The stock has already climbed 38% since that position was built. New CEO Greg Abel made the move, likely with Warren Buffett’s blessing.
- The timing looks smart. Alphabet just delivered one of its best quarters on record.
- Q1 revenue hit $109.9 billion, up 22% year-over-year.
- Google Search grew 19%, driven by retail and finance.
- The real standout was Google Cloud, which crossed $20 billion in revenue for the first time — up 63% — with operating margins expanding sharply to 32.9%.
- Cloud’s backlog nearly doubled to $462 billion in a single quarter.
CEO Sundar Pichai credited the company’s full-stack AI approach. AI Overviews and AI Mode are driving search queries to all-time highs.
Gemini Enterprise paid users grew 40% quarter-over-quarter. And the company’s AI-related cloud revenue grew nearly 800% year-over-year.
Earnings per share came in at $5.11, up 82%. Free cash flow for the trailing 12 months hit $64.4 billion.
Alphabet also raised its quarterly dividend by 5% and updated full-year CapEx guidance to $180–190 billion — a sign management is betting heavily on continued AI demand.
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What the Market Is Telling Us About Alphabet Stock
When Berkshire piles into a stock with this kind of conviction, the market pays attention. Abel’s decision to more than triple the Alphabet position signals genuine confidence in the long-term AI story.
And the fundamentals back it up. Cloud growth is accelerating. Search is holding strong despite AI disruption fears. Margins are expanding.
Alphabet stock isn’t cheap, but with a $462 billion cloud backlog and AI momentum building across every segment, the growth case is hard to dismiss.
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