⚡What does Alphabet do, in 30 seconds?
Alphabet is the parent company of Google, its biggest business 28 33. More than 70% of its 2025 revenue came from online ads 27. It sold $402.8bn ✓ in FY2025. Google Services brought in 85% ✓ of that, and Google Cloud 15% ✓.
📱What does Alphabet sell?
Alphabet reports three parts, and Google Services is by far the biggest. Here is what each one is and who pays for it.
Google Services
Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Drive, Maps, Photos, Google Play, devices and the Gemini app 1. In FY2025 it brought in $342.7bn ✓. Most of it comes from ads shown on Search, YouTube and partner sites and apps 1. In 2025, Search and other ads made $224.5bn, and YouTube ads $40.4bn 3.
👥 Advertisers pay to reach the people who use these products 1. Some users also pay for YouTube Premium, Google One, apps on Google Play or Pixel phones 1.
Google Cloud
Rented computing power, AI tools and the Workspace apps, such as Gmail, Docs and Meet for organisations 4 5. From FY2024 to FY2025 its sales rose from $43.2bn ✓ to $58.7bn ✓. Its AI computing runs on GPUs and on Google's own chips, called TPUs 4. It now also sells products, mainly TPU systems 5.
👥 Businesses of all sizes, which mostly pay by usage or by subscription 4.
Other Bets
Alphabet's non-Google businesses, such as Waymo driverless taxis, Isomorphic Labs drug discovery and X, its moonshot factory 6 6. In FY2025 they brought in $1.5bn ✓ together. In the three months to September 2026, they lost $2.0bn 7.
👥 Their revenue comes mainly from driverless rides and internet services 6. Waymo opened in its fifteenth US city in September 2026 8.
How the mix has shifted
Where the customers are
The United States is Alphabet's biggest market, at 48% ✓ of sales in FY2025. Europe, the Middle East and Africa added 29% ✓, and Asia Pacific 17% ✓. The rest of the Americas made up the last 6% ✓.
💸How does Alphabet make money?
Follow the money from left to rightfrom top to bottom: what customers pay for, what it costs to make, and what is left as profit.
Alphabet sold $402.8bn ✓ of ads, cloud services, subscriptions and devices in FY2025. The direct cost of delivering all that was $162.5bn ✓. What is left is gross profit, which came to $240.3bn ✓.
Next come the costs of running the company. Research and development took $61.1bn ✓, and sales, marketing and admin took $50.2bn ✓. That left operating profit, the profit from the main business, of $129.0bn ✓. Other income added $29.8bn ✓, and tax took $26.7bn ✓. So net income was $132.2bn ✓, even more than operating profit. Out of every hundred dollars of sales, Alphabet kept about $33 ✓ as profit, including about $7 ✓ added on top by other income.
Out of every $100 customers paid in FY2025…
Interest, investment gains and other income added +$7 for every $100 of sales, so the slices above add up to a little more than $100.
⏱️ Alphabet by the clock
Spread the FY2025 totals evenly over its 365 days and you get this. Source: Alphabet Inc. 10-K [9].
📈How is Alphabet doing?
Alphabet has grown fast for a decade. From FY2015 to FY2025, sales grew 18.3% ✓ a year on average, rising in 10 ✓ of 10 ✓ years. Operating margin rose from 25.8% ✓ to 32.0% ✓, so it now keeps about a third of sales as operating profit. Gross margin slipped from 62.4% ✓ to 59.7% ✓.
The latest numbers show growth speeding up. In the four quarters to 30 June 2026, the latest period in our SEC data set, sales reached $445.9bn ✓. That was up 20.1% ✓ on the four quarters before, faster than in FY2025, when sales grew 15.1% ✓. In the three months to September 2026, Google Cloud revenue rose 103% to $30.7bn, and sales of TPU systems were a meaningful part of that growth 7. In the same months, Search and other revenue grew 12% 7.
The catch is the cost of building for AI. Capital spending, such as on servers and data centers, jumped to $91.4bn ✓ in FY2025, from $52.5bn ✓ the year before. In the first nine months of 2026, capital spending reached $132.0bn, up from $63.6bn a year earlier, mostly on technical infrastructure 5. In June 2026 Alphabet announced an $84.75bn sale of new shares, including $10bn to Berkshire Hathaway 40. Of that, a $40bn programme to sell shares over time is mainly for tax on staff share awards, and the rest is for AI computing 40. Alphabet also raised $28.7bn from bonds in the third quarter of 2026 7.
📝 The report card
Alphabet earns top marks for profit and cash, good marks for growth and its balance sheet, and a middling mark for steadiness. Every company is graded on the same fixed scale, so an A means the same thing on every page. The strip shows where Alphabet (orange) and its 5 peers land; further right is better.
Growth
Alphabet's sales grew 12.5% ✓ a year over its last three fiscal years, which earns a B ✓ on the fixed scale. That is just behind Netflix at 12.6% ✓, while Meta grew 19.9% ✓ a year, good for an A ✓.
Why this measure? (higher is better)
Growing sales is the engine of a business. Mature giants rarely grow fast, so 5% a year already earns a C.
Profitability
Over the last three years combined, Alphabet kept 30.7% ✓ of sales as operating profit, enough for an A ✓. Apple is about level at 31.1% ✓, while Microsoft keeps far more at 45.8% ✓.
Why this measure? (higher is better)
Operating margin is the share of each sales dollar left after running the business. Software and platforms often clear 30%; hardware makers usually sit below 10%.
Cash generation
Over the last three years combined, Alphabet turned 20.3% ✓ of sales into free cash flow, just enough for an A ✓. The figure fell to 18.2% ✓ in FY2025, a year when capital spending, such as on data centers, rose to $91.4bn ✓.
Why this measure? (higher is better)
Free cash flow is the cash left after paying for factories, data centres and equipment. It funds dividends, buybacks and new bets.
Balance sheet
At the end of FY2025, Alphabet's cash and investments minus its borrowings (leases and stakes in other companies not counted) equalled 19.4% ✓ of a year's sales. That earns a B ✓, just short of the top band. It is the strongest among its peers, whose median is 8.1% ✓.
Why this measure? (higher is better)
More cash than debt gives a company room to ride out bad years. Some debt is normal; a lot of it makes a company fragile.
Steadiness
Alphabet's yearly growth swings with a standard deviation of 9.4% ✓, which earns a C ✓. Only Microsoft is steadier among its peers, at 4.2% ✓. A jump of 41.2% ✓ in FY2021 adds to Alphabet's figure.
Why this measure? (lower is better)
Steady growers are easier to plan around. Big swings mean sales depend on product cycles, the economy or one-off events.
🧑🏫 How the grades work
- Same scale for everyone. Each measure has fixed cut-offs (shown under each strip). Clear the A line and you get an A, whatever your peers do.
- Three years together. Profitability and cash generation add up the last three fiscal years before dividing, so one unusual year counts for less than it would on its own (a year much bigger than the others still weighs most).
- Peers for context. The rank shows how Alphabet compares with the group. Companies within 0.1 percentage point share a rank.
- Same source. Every company's figures come from its own latest annual report (10-K), so fiscal years end in different months.
- Judgement, openly stated. The cut-offs are QuantVantage.ai's view of what good looks like for a large, established company. They are not a forecast or a recommendation.
11 years at a glance
Where the cash goes
From FY2015 to FY2025, Alphabet produced $505.5bn ✓ of free cash flow. It handed $365.4bn ✓ back to owners through buybacks and dividends. In FY2025, payouts equalled 76% ✓ of free cash flow, including $10.0bn ✓ of dividends. In October 2026 it declared a quarterly dividend of $0.22 a share, payable on 14 December 2026 7.
🧮Ratios 101: what are Alphabet's key financial ratios?
Ratios shrink Alphabet's giant numbers into simple comparisons. Most look strong, but a few show the cost of its AI build-out. A ratio divides one number by another so companies of any size can be compared. Each card shows the formula with Alphabet's real FY2025 numbers, the peer median and the trend.
💰 Profitability: how much of each sale is kept?
Gross margin
What is left from each sale after paying to make the product or deliver the service.
👉 At 59.7% ✓, Alphabet beats the 50.3% ✓ peer median, though it is down from 62.4% ✓ in FY2015.
📏 Rule of thumb: Above 40% usually signals pricing power or a big software or services mix.
Operating margin
What is left after also paying for research, marketing and running the company.
👉 Alphabet's 32.0% ✓ matches the 32.0% ✓ peer median and is well up from 25.8% ✓ in FY2015.
📏 Rule of thumb: Above 20% is strong for a large company.
Net margin
The bottom line: profit after interest and taxes, per dollar of sales.
👉 Alphabet kept 32.8% ✓ of sales as final profit, above the 26.9% ✓ peer median and 21.8% ✓ in FY2015. Other income of $29.8bn ✓ lifted it above the operating margin.
📏 Rule of thumb: Above 15% is strong; one-off tax items can move it in a single year.
Return on equity (ROE)
Profit earned for each dollar that shareholders have left in the company.
👉 ROE of 31.8% ✓ is close to the 30.2% ✓ peer median and more than double the 13.6% ✓ of FY2015. Shareholders' equity is large, at $415.3bn ✓, so a small equity base is not what makes this ratio high.
📏 Rule of thumb: Around 15% or more is good, but buybacks shrink equity and can make ROE look huge.
⚙️ Efficiency: how hard do the assets work?
Return on assets (ROA)
Profit earned from everything the company owns, however it was paid for.
👉 ROA doubled from 11.1% ✓ in FY2015 to 22.2% ✓, well above the 17.6% ✓ peer median.
📏 Rule of thumb: Above 10% is strong; banks and factories usually earn less.
Asset turnover
Dollars of sales squeezed out of each dollar of assets.
👉 Alphabet's sales are 0.7x ✓ the value of everything it owns. That is up from 0.5x ✓ in FY2015 but just under the 0.8x ✓ peer median.
📏 Rule of thumb: Retailers often top 2x; asset-heavy businesses can sit below 0.5x.
🛟 Safety: could it survive a bad year?
Current ratio
Can short-term assets (cash, money owed by customers, stock) pay the bills due within a year?
👉 At 2.0x ✓, short-term assets cover bills due within a year twice over. That is above the 1.2x ✓ peer median but down from 4.7x ✓ in FY2015.
📏 Rule of thumb: Above 1.0x is the classic comfort line, but cash-rich giants can run below it on purpose.
Debt to equity
How much the company has borrowed for each dollar shareholders have in it.
👉 Debt is small next to equity, at 0.1x ✓, the same as the 0.1x ✓ of FY2015 and below the 0.3x ✓ peer median. But debt was $48.5bn ✓ at the end of 2025, and by 30 June 2026 it was $100.2bn ✓. Alphabet then raised $28.7bn more from bonds in the third quarter of 2026 7.
📏 Rule of thumb: Below 1.0x is conservative. Like ROE, it can rise when buybacks shrink equity, even if debt has not changed.
Interest cover
How many times over operating profit could pay the year's interest bill.
👉 Operating profit covers interest 175.3x ✓ over, far above the 43.0x ✓ peer median and close to 186.2x ✓ in FY2015.
📏 Rule of thumb: Above 5x is comfortable; below 2x is a warning sign.
💵 Cash and owners: where does the money end up?
Cash conversion
Does reported profit turn into real cash? Free cash flow is operating cash minus capital spending.
👉 Only 0.6x ✓ of profit became free cash flow in FY2025, against 1.0x ✓ in FY2015 and a 0.8x ✓ peer median. Capital spending of $91.4bn ✓, including on data centers, took a big bite out of the cash.
📏 Rule of thumb: Near or above 1.0x means profits are backed by cash.
R&D intensity
How much of each sales dollar goes into inventing future products.
👉 Alphabet spends 15.2% ✓ of sales on R&D, a bit below 16.4% ✓ in FY2015 but well above the 9.5% ✓ peer median.
📏 Rule of thumb: Tech companies often spend 10% to 20%; more is not always better if it does not pay off.
Stock pay
Pay given to staff in shares instead of cash. It is a real cost to owners because it adds shares.
👉 Stock pay equals 6.2% ✓ of sales, double the 3.1% ✓ peer median, though down from 6.9% ✓ in FY2015.
📏 Rule of thumb: Under 5% of sales is modest for a tech company.
Shareholder payout
How much of the year's profit was handed back to owners.
👉 Alphabet returned 42.2% ✓ of FY2025 profit through buybacks and dividends. That is below the 52.2% ✓ peer median but up from 11.2% ✓ in FY2015.
📏 Rule of thumb: Above 100% means it returned more than it earned, using cash savings or debt.
Ratios use fiscal-year-end balance sheet values. Inputs are shown rounded, so dividing them can differ from the result in the last digit. A peer median leaves out peers that do not report the inputs, or where the ratio means nothing (for example, negative shareholders' equity). Rules of thumb are general guides from QuantVantage.ai, not hard limits. No share-price ratios (like price-to-earnings) are shown on this page.
🥊Who are Alphabet's competitors?
Alphabet fights different giants in different arenas, from AI model makers and social networks to cloud providers, video services and hardware makers 22. Meta and Amazon also sell ads to businesses 315 192021. Microsoft and Amazon rent out cloud computing too 1617 183. Apple is both a rival and a partner, and Netflix competes with YouTube for TV viewing time 2223124 2526.
| Company | Where they compete | Revenue | Growth/yr (3y) | Op. margin | FCF margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet (GOOGL, FY2025) | Search, YouTube, Android, Gemini AI and cloud 1 4 | $402.8bn | 12.5% | 32.0% | 18.2% |
| Meta Platforms (META, FY2025) | Digital ads: in 2025 Google's ad revenue was $294.7bn and Meta's $196.2bn 315 | $201.0bn | 19.9% | 41.4% | 22.9% |
| Microsoft (MSFT, FY2026) | Cloud (Azure against Google Cloud), work software (Microsoft 365 against Workspace) and search ads (Bing against Google Search) 1617 | $331.8bn | 16.1% | 46.8% | 20.2% |
| Amazon (AMZN, FY2025) | Cloud: in 2025 AWS had $128.7bn of sales and Google Cloud $58.7bn 183. Amazon also sells ads 192021 | $716.9bn | 11.7% | 11.2% | 1.1% |
| Apple (AAPL, FY2025) | Phones (iPhone against Android and Pixel), but also a partner: Apple earns licensing money from Google for search 2223124 | $416.2bn | 1.8% | 32.0% | 23.7% |
| Netflix (NFLX, FY2025) | TV viewing time and ad budgets: YouTube ads brought Alphabet $40.4bn in 2025, against over $1.5bn of Netflix ad revenue 2526 | $45.2bn | 12.6% | 29.5% | 20.9% |
In driverless rides, Waymo competes with Tesla, which launched its Robotaxi service in June 2025 8324142. Alphabet also counts makers of AI models and other search engines among its rivals 22.
🧭Alphabet SWOT: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
💪 Strengths
- Seven Google products have two billion users each, and all 15 with over half a billion users use Gemini models 28.
- Google Cloud offers AI computing on Google's own chips, called TPUs 4. In October 2026 Alphabet said the Gemini app had reached one billion users 7.
- Over the last three years combined, Alphabet kept 30.7% ✓ of sales as operating profit, an A ✓ on our report card.
- Google Cloud revenue rose 103% in the three months to September 2026 7. Its operating income that quarter was $11.1bn 7.
🩹 Weaknesses
- More than 70% of 2025 revenue came from online ads 27.
- Other Bets lost $2.0bn in the three months to September 2026 7.
- Free cash flow fell to 18.2% ✓ of sales in FY2025, from 22.6% ✓ in FY2023. In the four quarters to 30 June 2026 it was 11.9% ✓.
- The founders held about 52.7% of the votes at the end of 2025 27.
🚀 Opportunities
- Alphabet had $567.7bn of revenue backlog at 30 September 2026, and $560.8bn of it was for Google Cloud 5.
- Google Cloud now also sells products, mainly its TPU chip systems 5.
- Apple's next AI models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology, under a deal announced in January 2026 24.
- Waymo had completed over 20 million trips by October 2026 32. It plans to start rides in the Madrid region, aiming for its first riders in 2027 32.
⚠️ Threats
- Alphabet says AI is quickly reshaping advertising, including how ads are delivered online 27.
- A US court ordered Google to share some search data with certain rivals and limited how it distributes its services 29.
- The EU fined Google €430m over Google Play and €460m over Search in July 2026; Google appealed both 29.
- In July 2026 a Stockholm court awarded PriceRunner about $2.1bn in damages over Google's shopping results; Google appealed 29.
🏰Does Alphabet have a moat?
Why 3?
Alphabet says its patents and copyrights may not be enough to protect its AI and other inventions 27. Rules are now working against it. A US court made it share some search data with rivals 29, and another set rules for its ad tech 29. The EU fined it 29, and the UK requires fair search ranking 30.
A moat is what keeps rivals from taking a company's customers and profits. Scores are QuantVantage.ai's judgement (5 = strongest), set with the same rubric on every explainer (orange is Alphabet; grey dots are peers).
🔭What should you watch next?
Final judgment in the US ad tech case
In September 2026 the judge refused to order a sale of Google's ad tech and set conduct rules instead 29. Once the final judgment is entered, Google plans to appeal the April 2025 ruling against it 29. A separate trial brought by state attorneys general in Texas follows 29.
Siri built on Gemini
Apple and Google said a more personal Siri, powered by Apple models based on Gemini, was expected in 2026 24.
Waymo in Europe
Waymo plans fully driverless rides in the Madrid region of Spain, aiming for its first riders in 2027 32.
📚Learn the words
❓Frequently asked questions about Alphabet
Is Google the same company as Alphabet?
Not quite: Alphabet is a group of businesses, and Google is the largest of them 28. In 2015 a reorganisation put Alphabet in Google's place as the company at the top 33.
How does Google make money if Search is free?
Advertisers pay Google to show ads on Search, YouTube and partner sites 1. Online ads brought in more than 70% of Alphabet's 2025 revenue 27. Search and other ads alone made $224.5bn in 2025 3.
Why are there two tickers, GOOGL and GOOG?
They are two classes of shares in the same company: Class A trades as GOOGL and Class C as GOOG 33. Class A shares carry one vote each, while Class C shares carry none 27. Class B shares carry 10 votes each, and the founders owned about 89.3% of them at the end of 2025 27. Class B is not traded 33.
Does Google pay Apple?
Apple says it earns licensing money from Google and others for offering their search on its platforms and apps 34. Google pays partners that send it search traffic, and these costs were 20.3% of its ad revenue in 2025 3.
Did the courts break Google up?
No, not so far. In the search case, a US court limited how Google distributes its services and made it share some search data with certain rivals 29. In the ad tech case, the judge refused to order a sale and set conduct rules instead 29. The search appeals were still pending in October 2026 29.
What is Google Cloud, and why is it growing so fast?
Google Cloud rents computing power, AI tools and work apps to businesses 4. From FY2023 to FY2025 its sales rose from $33.1bn ✓ to $58.7bn ✓. In the three months to September 2026 its revenue rose 103%, and TPU system sales were a meaningful part of that 7.
🎮Play: higher or lower, then test yourself
Figures come from each company's latest annual report (10-K); fiscal years end in different months. Sources: [9] [11] [13] [14] [12] [10].
🧠 Test yourself
5 quick questions. Score: 0 / 5
1. About how much of Alphabet's 2025 revenue came from online ads?
2. Where does the name Google come from?
3. Which part of Alphabet grew fastest from FY2024 to FY2025?
4. What was Google's first search engine called?
🔎Sources and method
Every figure comes from a source listed here or is calculated from those sources (marked ✓). Company financials are taken from SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q) as tagged in XBRL. Peer grades rank the same measures across the company and its peers. This page contains no share-price data and no valuation.
- Alphabet Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 — Item 1 Google Services: core products, performance and brand advertising, subscriptions, platforms and devices, brand recognition (accessed 2026-10-29)
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- Alphabet Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 — Item 7 and Note 2: revenue by type 2024-2025, Google Network properties, TAC rate, paid clicks and cost-per-click, major customers (accessed 2026-10-29)
- Alphabet Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 — Item 1 Google Cloud: Google Cloud Platform and Workspace, TPUs and GPUs, Vertex AI (accessed 2026-10-29)
- Alphabet Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 — Revenue backlog, employees, capital expenditures, cloud product sales of TPU systems, Workspace and Google Play revenue recognition (accessed 2026-10-29)
- Alphabet Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 — Item 1 Other Bets: Waymo, Isomorphic Labs, X; revenue sources; own boards and outside investors (accessed 2026-10-29)
- Alphabet third quarter 2026 results (Form 8-K Exhibit 99.1), October 28, 2026 — Q3 2026 highlights: Cloud growth, TPU systems, Search query growth, Gemini app users, Gemini 4, tokens per minute, YouTube subscribers, segment operating results, notes issued, ATM program, dividends (accessed 2026-10-29)
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- Joint statement from Google and Apple, January 12, 2026 — Apple Foundation Models to be based on Gemini models and cloud technology; personalized Siri expected in 2026 (accessed 2026-10-29)
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- Alphabet Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 — Note 10 legal matters: search case appeals, advertising technology remedies, EC Android, DMA and ad tech decisions, PriceRunner, Google Play and Epic (accessed 2026-10-29)
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