Mountain View, California-based Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) is a multinational technology conglomerate holding company offering various products and platforms. With a market cap of $4 trillion, GOOGL provides web-based search, advertisements, maps, software applications, mobile operating systems, consumer content, enterprise solutions, commerce, and hardware products. Shares of this internet media giant have outperformed the broader market over the past year. GOOGL has gained 66.5% over this time frame, while ...

Optimist Fund, an investment management company, released its third-quarter 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The fund returned +9.1% in the third quarter compared to 7.9% for the benchmark. The firm focuses on acceleration in several cyclical holdings in the portfolio that have been in multi-year downswings, while the world holds attention on the latest developments in AI. In addition, you can check the fund’s top 5 holdings to determine its best picks for 2025. In its th ...