GOOGL

Alphabet Inc. ·Nasdaq Global Select·Communication Services
343.55 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

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This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -14.6
45.1%
Brown Bear Score
76.1%
Business Conviction Score
19.4%
Position Health Score
25.5%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +68.9% · range 199.32–402.62

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 12.3%
OCF / assets 27.7%
FCF / revenue 40.9%
Gross margin 60.9%
ROIC 32.4%
Forward P/E 23.3

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 95.0pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Price has moved further than forward earnings growth currently justifies — worth weighing against the rest of the entry case.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-27 after the close · consensus EPS 3.10

Q3 23 revenue: 76.69bnQ3 23 net income: 19.69bnQ3 23 EPS: 1.55Q4 23 revenue: 86.31bnQ4 23 net income: 20.69bnQ4 23 EPS: 1.63Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 80.54bnQ1 24 net income: 23.66bnQ1 24 EPS: 1.89Q2 24 revenue: 84.74bnQ2 24 net income: 23.62bnQ2 24 EPS: 1.89Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 88.27bnQ3 24 net income: 26.30bnQ3 24 EPS: 2.12Q4 24 revenue: 96.47bnQ4 24 net income: 26.54bnQ4 24 EPS: 2.13Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 90.23bnQ1 25 net income: 34.54bnQ1 25 EPS: 2.81Q2 25 revenue: 96.43bnQ2 25 net income: 28.20bnQ2 25 EPS: 2.31Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 102.35bnQ3 25 net income: 34.98bnQ3 25 EPS: 2.87Q4 25 revenue: 113.83bnQ4 25 net income: 34.45bnQ4 25 EPS: 2.82Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 109.90bnQ1 26 net income: 62.58bnQ1 26 EPS: 5.11Q2 26 revenue: 119.80bnQ2 26 net income: 112.19bnQ2 26 EPS: 9.11Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (1.55–9.11, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-06-30 119.80bn +24.2% 112.19bn 9.11 2.85 -4.4% 2026-07-23
2026-03-31 109.90bn +21.8% 62.58bn 5.11 2.62 -3.1% 2026-04-30
2025-12-31 (derived) 113.83bn +18.0% 34.45bn 2.82 2.82 +4.2% 2026-02-05
2025-09-30 102.35bn +15.9% 34.98bn 2.87 3.10 +29.4% 2025-10-30

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±6.2%
On an ordinary two days ±1.6% — filings move it 3.8× as much
Direction 8 up, 4 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +6.1% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-26: price -11.7%Q1 23 revenue +2.6% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-26: price +3.6%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +7.1% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-26: price +5.9%Q3 23 revenue +11.0% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-25: price -11.9%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +15.4% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-26: price +6.5%Q2 24 revenue +13.6% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-24: price -8.0%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue +15.1% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-30: price +0.8%Q1 25 revenue +12.0% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-25: price +0.8%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +13.8% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-24: price +1.6%Q3 25 revenue +15.9% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-30: price +2.4%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +21.8% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-30: price +10.2%Q2 26 revenue +24.2% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-07-23: price -6.5%Q2 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-06-30 2026-07-23 +24.2% -6.5%
2026-03-31 2026-04-30 +21.8% +10.2% -7.7%
2025-09-30 2025-10-30 +15.9% +2.4% +12.2%
2025-06-30 2025-07-24 +13.8% +1.6% +5.4%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 12,309.0M as at 2026-06-30
Change over 1 year +0.9%
Change over 3 years -3.6%
Public float $1.90T as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 311.34 — 345.26
Protective stop 301.47 (Atr, 8.2% risk)
Support 328.77 (4 touches, 4.5% away)
Resistance 374.13 (8.9% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 4.5% above 328.77, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 8.9% below 374.13, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 4 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 8.2% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice BELOW the cloud | periods 5/15/31 (59% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL
Cloud eventFresh down breakout 1d ago
Cloud thickness12% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice INSIDE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 349.69 to 351.93. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages point the other way, so this is a mixed reading rather than a clear one.

Trailing returns

21 days -4.4%
63 days -11.3%
126 days +7.8%
252 days +70.9%
Below 252d high14.7%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension is still moving away from fair trend; chase risk is elevated.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width18.4% of price
Recent tightest18.0% (8 sessions ago, narrower than 32.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.02×
Band 314.90 — 378.81

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 18% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 337.39–370.922026-06-262026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger MACD histogram acceleration turns positive repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Deteriorating rapidly
  2. Trigger 2 EMA50 reclaim +2.8% gap is improving; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 EMA20 reclaim +2.2% gap is improving; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 Positive 20-day momentum acceleration secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; chase risk lowers upgrade comfort · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityInsider selling
Buy filings0
Sell filings4
Shares sold315,600
Value sold$6.2m
Latest sell2026-07-30
FiledInsiderSharesValue
2026-07-30 Sold ARNOLD FRANCESDirector 82 $27,338
2026-07-29 Sold Saraci MarsidaVP, Chief Accounting Officer 449 $149,607

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

GOOGL: no binary-event flag. Near IV 28%, far IV 30% (ratio 0.91), implied move 3.1%.

Implied volatility 28% near (7d) · 30% far (65d)
Term structure 0.91× near/far
Historical volatility 51%
Implied vs historical 0.54×
Implied move ±3.1% by 2026-08-19
Implied move vs ATR 0.37×
Skew Flat (1.02×)
Call wall 410.00 (+19.4% away)
Put wall 330.00 (-3.9% away)
Gamma pin 410.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 3.1% in either direction by 2026-08-19.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Stock Leadership Confirmed

Rotation health 80.3/100; Strong Rotation Tailwind.

Rotation health 80.3
Rotation strength 72.0
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Leading 105.5 107.8
Stock vs SPY Leading 101.1 118.2
Sector vs SPY Lagging 95.6 91.2

Direction of travel: North-East / strengthening leadership

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+10.0)
  • Altman Z-score 24.31 (+10.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 60.9% (+15.0)
  • ROIC quality: 32.4% (+23.5)
  • FCF margin quality: 40.9% (+20.0)
  • Gross margin improving by 2.7 pts (+2.0)
  • FCF margin improving by 5.1 pts (+4.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.055) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.47) (+4.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 20.3 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.91 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 62.1, 5-day change +9.0 (+3.2)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 0.3% (+0.7)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 2.7% (+2.7)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 6.3% (+2.6)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.45 (+4.4)
  • Regime convergence: TREND_EXHAUSTION confidence 73.5/100 (EMERGING) (-14.7)

Negative signals

  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.08)
  • Track 1: weak/falling ADX (18.7, flat)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 2.2%
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -0.1%
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-3.84)
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.03)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 2.7%
  • ROIC improving by -0.9 pts (+-5.0)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.