Investors looking for stocks that can outperform the broader market might be hesitant to invest in a company that has a market cap of $2.38 trillion, but Alphabet (GOOG -1.16%) (GOOGL -1.11%) has continued to deliver excellent returns for investors. The stock has nearly tripled in value over the last five years and already climbed 39% year to date at the time of writing.It's a rock-solid company with $94 billion in trailing-12-month net income and $339 billion in revenue, and it's still growing these figure ...

Technology stocks generally have soared this year, helping drive the S&P 500 toward a 27% gain. Leading the way were a handful of stocks known as "Magnificent Seven" -- a reference to the 1960 Western. These megacaps have strong track records of earnings growth over time, and they continue to innovate, giving them the potential to generate revenue gains well into the future.You'll easily recognize these companies' names:Meta Platforms (META -1.65%) -- owner of social media apps including Facebook.Alphabet ( ...

As 2024 comes to a close, many investors are looking at their portfolios and trying to decide if they need to make any adjustments. Some may be coming to the conclusion that they need more exposure to the technology sector -- a natural idea given the impressive performances of some of the key names in it.Just look at Alphabet (GOOGL -1.11%) (GOOG -1.16%) and Meta Platforms (META -1.65%). These two dominant internet firms have crushed the S&P 500 in the past five- and 10-year periods. Their track records are ...

Shares of search giant Alphabet (GOOG -0.32%) (GOOGL -0.31%) rallied this week, up as much as 10.1% on Thursday before retreating to 9.2% gain on the week as of 1 p.m. ET Friday, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.That's a big move for a company as big as Alphabet that didn't report any financial results. But the search giant unveiled several positive bits of news on the technology front this week.Alphabet retakes the cutting edgeOn Monday, Alphabet published a blog post about the company ...

When end-of-year liquidations and profit taking take place, investors sit on newly minted cash waiting to be put to work again. Out of all the investment trends in the market and all the stocks that could outperform, which ones could pose the best opportunity from now into 2025? Well, there’s an answer to that, too, and it is found in the method traders like to use in hedge funds and investment banks. This method is often referred to as “top-down analysis,” where investors need to make sense of the world fr ...

Google has introduced a new Android operating system built for extended reality (XR) devices like headsets and glasses.The new Android XR was created in collaboration with Samsung and will first launch on headsets code named Project Moohan and built by Samsung, Google said in a Thursday (Dec. 12) press release.Google also aims to develop an ecosystem of other developers and device makers for Android XR, with them making Android XR devices as well as apps and games for those devices, according to the release ...

News about Google is permeating the airways with headlines about the continued rise in quantum computing abilities as well as Congress threatening to make Google's parent company, Alphabet, sell off the web browser Chrome.This cross current of aggressive news headlines predicts a fair move to either the upside or downside. Let's consider giving this trade 20 days or so to work itself out. Hence, our expiration will be the January 2025 monthly options.Here's how to structure the trade.In this situation, I'm ...

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Alphabet (GOOGL) shares ended the last trading session 5.5% higher at $195.40. The jump came on an impressive volume with a higher-than-average number of shares changing hands in the session. This compares to the stock's 2% gain over the past four weeks.Alphabet is riding on strong cloud and search growth. Google Cloud is benefiting from accelerated growth across AI infrastructure, enterprise AI platform Vertex, generative AI (Gen AI) solutions and core Google Cloud Platform products.This internet search le ...