Alphabet hits $4 trillion market capitalization
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd at Google’s annual I/O developers conference on May 20, 2025 in Mountain View, California.
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Google’s parent company Alphabet He became the fourth member of the 4 trillion dollar club.
Alphabet shares increased by 1% Monday, after Apple announced it would use Google’s Gemini as the basis for its AI models and the next generation of Siri.
The stock closed at $331.86, pushing Alphabet’s market cap to just over $4 trillion.
Search company participates Nvidia, Microsoft And Apple As a small number of companies worth over $4 trillion.
Both Nvidia and Microsoft reached the $4 trillion milestone for the first time in July, while Apple also crossed the threshold for the first time in October. But since then, Apple and Microsoft have fallen well below the $4 trillion mark.
Alphabet one day stock chart.
Alphabet’s entry into the elite club comes after the company finished 2025 as one of Wall Street’s best-performing companies. Its shares are up 65% in 2025; This marked Alphabet’s sharpest rise since 2009, when shares doubled after the financial crisis.
The search firm is on the rise after putting together the pieces for AI’s comeback and clearing significant regulatory hurdles last year. In November, the company introduced Ironwood, the seventh generation of its tensor processing units, a custom AI chip that has emerged as a potential alternative to Nvidia’s offerings. Then in December, Google introduced Gemini 3. rave reviews.
Despite OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora services capturing a growing amount of consumer engagement and concerns swirling around the future of online advertising in a world of AI chatbots and agents, Alphabet has managed to allay fears that its most innovative days are in the past.
Analyst Deepak Mathivanan upgraded Alphabet’s shares in his Jan. 8 note.
“We believe the technological advantages of the Gemini assistant app, powered by Google’s ‘core’ assets, over ChatGPT (powered by Bing and partner integrations) are underappreciated,” Mathivanan wrote. Google “arguably has the strongest footprint across multiple layers in the AI technology stack, and the company’s decade-long investments have enabled deep competitive moats.”
In a recent note, Citi analysts called Google one of the top picks on the web for its 2026 outlook. Analysts stated that 70% of Google Cloud customers use artificial intelligence products and said, “According to the increasing demand, Google has the chip, infrastructure capacity and model.”
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