By Vuk Zdinjak
Publication Date: 2026-04-30 18:47:00
Alphabet (GOOGL) has the most popular search engine, is a hyperscaler, and one of the best-positioned companies in the artificial intelligence race. The company classifies its two revenue streams as Google Cloud and Google Services.
The stock is up about 17.8% year to date, at the time of writing, Thursday morning, April 30, according to Yahoo Finance. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 4.5% in the same period.
Following a very strong Q1 report on April 29, which beat Wall Street consensus estimates, the stock is soaring 5.5% and trading near $369.3.
Other key news for the stock:
Google has signed a deal to provide the Pentagon with its AI models for classified work, reported The New York Times.
On April 22 at Google Cloud Next, the company unveiled its eighth generation of custom Tensor Processor Units (TPU).
Alphabet said it will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, reported Reuters.


