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Alphabet Inc Class C (GOOG) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on GOOG

What this diary said about Alphabet Inc Class C, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we hold

BookPositionSinceResult
AI Buildout 50.1 shares · average entry $305.43 — +11.7%

Model books as of 25 Sept 2026; wikifolio positions from the official wikifolio data, entries in euros. Results are unrealised, before any exit. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

Charts from the desk on GOOG

The charts this diary drew or picked on Alphabet Inc Class C, as published — each dated and linked to the piece that explains it.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for GOOG, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 3 pieces · newest: Weekly Signal, “Magnificent Seven — The Seven at the Shelf” (2026-08-30)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where GOOG appears in the diary — 3 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

101 and glossary

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.56 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How GOOG has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.56 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Alphabet Inc Class C moved 0.56% on average · correlation 0.17 · higher than 58% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.40 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.70% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +1.20% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Internet Content & Information · · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Internet Content & Information ·

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against GOOG on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Alphabet Inc Class C

GOOG in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Alphabet runs three reporting units: Google Services covers Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome and the advertising and Play-store sales built on top of them; Google Cloud sells cloud infrastructure, AI tools such as Vertex AI and Gemini, and workspace software to businesses; Other Bets covers early-stage ventures including transport and internet projects. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Where it sits in the stack
Alphabet has no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index. Within our universe it sits in the communication-services and internet-content sector, and appears in the diary's inference-economics and capital-spending coverage as a hyperscaler that both buys AI infrastructure and builds its own custom inference chip, the TPU.
Who it is priced against
The diary groups it with Microsoft, Amazon and Apple as one of the long-run 'Magnificent Seven' names, and separately with Microsoft, Amazon and Meta when comparing scale of AI capital spending; on the custom-chip side it is set beside Amazon's Trainium and Qualcomm's on-device inference approach. The market also names Meta as a direct advertising competitor.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Alphabet holds a Nasdaq-100 seat but no place in Rubin, so it carries no Closelooknet score. The diary has mentioned it three times: once in a Weekly Signal comparing three-year trends across the Magnificent Seven, and twice in 101 primers, one on the shift from training to inference and one on the AI capex cycle.
What the diary watches
Whether Google Cloud's AI capital spending keeps ranking near the top of the group the diary tracks, and whether the TPU's custom-inference role changes how it is compared with Nvidia's general-purpose chips.

Alphabet Inc Class C (GOOG) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.06%, annual · last 0.21 USD on 2026-03-09

Dividends and capital return

What GOOG pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.21 USD per share · a 0.06% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year −74.4% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.82 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.21 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-03-09
  • By calendar year 2024: 0.60 USD (partial) · 2025: 0.62 USD · 2026: 0.21 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-06-10

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Alphabet Inc Class C (GOOG)?

Alphabet Inc Class C trades as GOOG on the US exchange in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is GOOG in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Alphabet Inc Class C is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does GOOG trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -0.3% vs the 50-day and +1.3% vs the 200-day average, 15.7% below the 52-week high and +44.3% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Alphabet Inc Class C trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Alphabet Inc Class C had a beta of 0.56 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 58% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.70% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Alphabet Inc Class C?

Alphabet Inc Class C appears in 3 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Weekly Signal: Magnificent Seven — The Seven at the Shelf (2026-08-30); 101: Inference Economics: How the Training-to-Inference Shift Changes Everything; 101: The CapEx Cliff Question: When Does AI Infrastructure Spending Peak?. What Closelooknet said most recently: 2 · The four long trends — and the one most behind The four long trends, three years each: MSFT +59%, AMZN +97%, GOOG +152%, AAPL +72%. (Weekly Signal, 2026-08-30). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

Does Closelooknet hold Alphabet Inc Class C?

Yes — AI Buildout: 50.1 shares · average entry $305.43, +11.7% unrealised. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

What does Alphabet Inc Class C do?

Alphabet runs three reporting units: Google Services covers Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome and the advertising and Play-store sales built on top of them; Google Cloud sells cloud infrastructure, AI tools such as Vertex AI and Gemini, and workspace software to businesses; Other Bets covers early-stage ventures including transport and internet projects. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California. The diary groups it with Microsoft, Amazon and Apple as one of the long-run 'Magnificent Seven' names, and separately with Microsoft, Amazon and Meta when comparing scale of AI capital spending; on the custom-chip side it is set beside Amazon's Trainium and Qualcomm's on-device inference approach. The market also names Meta as a direct advertising competitor.

Where does Alphabet Inc Class C sit in the AI build-out?

Alphabet has no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index. Within our universe it sits in the communication-services and internet-content sector, and appears in the diary's inference-economics and capital-spending coverage as a hyperscaler that both buys AI infrastructure and builds its own custom inference chip, the TPU. Alphabet holds a Nasdaq-100 seat but no place in Rubin, so it carries no Closelooknet score. The diary has mentioned it three times: once in a Weekly Signal comparing three-year trends across the Magnificent Seven, and twice in 101 primers, one on the shift from training to inference and one on the AI capex cycle.

Does Alphabet Inc Class C pay a dividend?

Alphabet Inc Class C has paid 0.21 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.06% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.21 USD on 2026-03-09. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for GOOG, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

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