Alphabet Inc. $GOOGL Stock Holdings Trimmed by ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V.

ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V. trimmed its position in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) by 2.8% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 1,078,928 shares of the information services provider’s stock after selling 30,686 shares during the quarter. Alphabet comprises 3.2% of ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V.’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 5th biggest position. ASR Vermogensbeheer N.V.’s holdings in Alphabet were worth $262,283,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Financial Gravity Companies Inc. acquired a new position in Alphabet in the second quarter valued at $31,000. CarsonAllaria Wealth Management Ltd. lifted its holdings in shares of Alphabet by 36.4% in the 2nd quarter. CarsonAllaria Wealth Management Ltd. now owns 251 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $44,000 after purchasing an additional 67 shares during the last quarter. Corsicana & Co. acquired a new stake in shares of Alphabet in the 3rd quarter valued at about $54,000. Vermillion & White Wealth Management Group LLC grew its stake in Alphabet by 37.9% during the 2nd quarter. Vermillion & White Wealth Management Group LLC now owns 324 shares of the information services provider’s stock worth $57,000 after buying an additional 89 shares during the last quarter. Finally, S&T Bank PA lifted its stake in Alphabet by 40.2% in the second quarter. S&T Bank PA now owns 345 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $61,000 after buying an additional 99 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 40.03% of the company’s stock.

Alphabet Stock Up 0.7%

GOOGL opened at $338.25 on Friday. Alphabet Inc. has a 12 month low of $140.53 and a 12 month high of $342.29. The business has a 50-day moving average of $319.46 and a two-hundred day moving average of $263.90. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 1.75 and a quick ratio of 1.75. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.08 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 33.36, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.85 and a beta of 1.08.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October 29th. The information services provider reported $2.87 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.29 by $0.58. The business had revenue of $102.35 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $99.90 billion. Alphabet had a return on equity of 35.00% and a net margin of 32.23%. On average, research analysts expect that Alphabet Inc. will post 8.9 earnings per share for the current year.

Key Headlines Impacting Alphabet

Here are the key news stories impacting Alphabet this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Analyst upgrades and bullish notes support near‑term sentiment — Needham and RBC reiterated/issued buy ratings and recent coverage called for earnings upside into the next report, helping lift conviction in shares. Alphabet Earns Buy Rating from Needham RBC Reiterates Buy
• Positive Sentiment: Google and Amazon’s push into AI chips reduces reliance on Nvidia and signals growing in‑house/cloud hardware capabilities — positive for Google Cloud margins and capex leverage. Amazon and Google Eat Into Nvidia’s A.I. Chip Supremacy
• Positive Sentiment: Product momentum: Chrome adds AI image generation and a side‑panel assistant, and Alphabet is pushing AI into Search — supports ad/search revenue upside and user engagement. Google adds AI image generation to Chrome Zacks: AI Push to Boost Search Growth
• Positive Sentiment: Security actions: Google disrupted a large residential proxy network (IPIDEA) tied to abuse, which reduces fraud risk and is a reputational win for its platforms. That supports enterprise trust and regulatory relations. Google disrupts large residential proxy network Google Disrupts Network That Allowed Bad Actors
• Neutral Sentiment: Competitive landscape pieces compare CoreWeave and Alphabet for AI infrastructure — highlights both opportunity and execution risk as GOOGL competes on hardware, software and cloud pricing. CRVW vs. GOOGL: Which Stock Wins the AI Infrastructure Race?
• Neutral Sentiment: Short interest data in the feed is noisy/zeroed and not informative — no clear short‑squeeze signal from the provided entry. (No link — data summary.)
• Negative Sentiment: Waymo safety incident: a Waymo driverless vehicle struck a child near a Santa Monica elementary school; NHTSA has opened an investigation. This raises regulatory and liability risk for the autonomous driving unit and could pressure sentiment around Waymo‑related capex and commercialization timelines. Waymo Robotaxi Hits Child, Prompting NHTSA Investigation CNBC: A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school
• Negative Sentiment: Regulatory/legal pressure: the U.K. CMA is proposing rules to let publishers opt out of AI overviews and new conduct requirements; Alphabet also agreed to a ~$135M U.S. settlement over cellular data handling — potential modest earnings/headline risk and ongoing compliance costs. U.K. Competition Watchdog Plans New Rules Google to Pay $135 Million to Settle Lawsuit

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several analysts have commented on GOOGL shares. Daiwa Capital Markets upped their price objective on Alphabet from $233.00 to $333.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 6th. JMP Securities restated a “market outperform” rating and set a $290.00 price target on shares of Alphabet in a research note on Wednesday, October 22nd. Oppenheimer boosted their price target on shares of Alphabet from $270.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, October 20th. Bank of America lifted their price objective on Alphabet from $335.00 to $370.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 13th. Finally, UBS Group reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and set a $345.00 price objective (up previously from $306.00) on shares of Alphabet in a report on Tuesday, January 20th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-two have assigned a Buy rating and five have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $334.60.

Insider Transactions at Alphabet

In other Alphabet news, CEO Sundar Pichai sold 32,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, January 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $327.30, for a total transaction of $10,637,250.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 2,211,872 shares in the company, valued at $723,945,705.60. The trade was a 1.45% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, Director John L. Hennessy sold 600 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $337.52, for a total value of $202,512.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 21,224 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $7,163,524.48. This trade represents a 2.75% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold 222,297 shares of company stock worth $68,531,851 in the last quarter. 11.64% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Alphabet Profile

Alphabet Inc is the holding company created in 2015 to organize Google and a portfolio of businesses developing technologies beyond Google’s core internet services. Its principal operations are led by Google, which builds and operates consumer-facing products such as Google Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Workspace, as well as advertising platforms (Google Ads and AdSense) that historically generate the majority of its revenue. Google also develops consumer hardware (Pixel phones, Nest smart-home devices, Chromecast) and developer and distribution platforms such as Google Play.

Beyond Google’s consumer and advertising businesses, Alphabet invests in enterprise and infrastructure offerings through Google Cloud, which provides cloud computing, data analytics and productivity services to businesses and institutions.