Alphabet Inc. financial metrics

Professional SEC-based dashboard for profitability, financial health, and growth with transparent scoring logic. Latest period: Q4 2025.

Symbol
GOOGL, GOOG on Nasdaq
Location
Mountain View, CA
Fiscal year end
31 December
Latest financial report
05 Feb 2026

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GOOGL - Alphabet Inc. Financial Facts

GOOGL - Alphabet Inc. has a source-backed company facts page for reviewing reported financial metrics, periods, and linked metric histories.

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Context
Latest metrics period: Q4 2025
Latest reported value
Return On Equity 36%

Based on company facts extracted from SEC 10-Q/10-K XBRL filings where available. Open metric pages to inspect the reported history.

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Latest metrics period Q4 2025
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  • Current latest metrics period: Q4 2025.
  • Most recent SEC facts end date on this page: 31 Dec 2025.
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Latest update

Latest update for GOOGL - Alphabet Inc.

New filing available

Latest 13F period: Q4 2025. Reopen this facts page to verify the newest reported period against the prior baseline.

Update date

13 Feb 2026

Page type

Filer profile

Latest period

Q4 2025

Institutional portfolio context was refreshed from a 13F filing filed on 13 Feb 2026.

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Benchmark Context

How Return On Equity compares

Return On Equity is up about 8.5% versus the comparable prior period.

Compared with

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Why this is notable

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  • Latest comparable period on this page: Q4 2025.
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How to read key metrics on this page

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Plain-English Guide

How to read Net Income on this page

Net income is profit after operating costs, interest, taxes, and other non-operating items.

Why people care

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Quick Takeaways

  • GOOGL - Alphabet Inc. financial facts are built from SEC company filings data.
  • Latest metrics period on this page: Q4 2025.
  • Headline metric: Return On Equity 36%.

What Changed

  • Return On Equity YoY change: +8.5%.
  • Most recent SEC facts end date: 31 Dec 2025.

Why This Matters

  • This gives a beginner-friendly first read before you inspect detailed formulas and metric tables.
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Source Evidence

Based on latest 10-Q/10-K

Based on company facts extracted from SEC 10-Q/10-K XBRL filings where available. Open company facts to inspect the reported metric history.

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Latest SEC snapshot (2025-12-31) highlights Return On Equity 35.7%, Return On Assets 15.4%, and Operating Margin 31.6%.

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Financial Quality Score

Transparent 0-100 scoring model based on profitability, financial health, and growth factors.

97.8/100

Strong Confidence medium

Return On Equity

36%

Metric score 100.0/100

Return On Assets

15%

Metric score 100.0/100

Financial Health

Current Ratio
2x
Quick Ratio
1.85x
Debt to Equity
0.16x

Strengths

Return On Equity, Return On Assets, and Operating Margin

Watchpoints

No major risk flags from available metrics.

Key metrics snapshot

Profitability

Metric Latest value YoY change
Return On Equity 36% +8.5%
Return On Assets 15% +7.7%
Operating Margin 32%

Financial Health

Metric Latest value YoY change
Current Ratio 2x +9.2%
Quick Ratio 1.85x +11%
Debt-to-equity 0.16x +1084%

Growth

Metric Latest value YoY change
NetIncomeLoss YoY 32%

Share Metrics

Metric Latest value YoY change
Common Stock, Shares, Outstanding 12,088,000,000 -1%
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Basic 12,116,000,000 -1.6%
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Diluted 12,230,000,000 -1.7%

Supporting Metrics

These supporting metrics stay fully source-backed for deeper research. Scan the latest value and reported period first, then open a metric page when you need the full filing trail.

Metric Latest value YoY change
Accounts Payable, Current $12,200,000,000 +53%
Accounts Receivable, after Allowance for Credit Loss, Current $62,886,000,000 +20%
Accrued Income Taxes, Noncurrent $9,531,000,000 +8.5%
Accrued Liabilities, Current $55,557,000,000 +8.4%
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax $1,916,000,000 +60%
Assets $595,281,000,000 +32%
Assets, Current $206,038,000,000 +26%
Cash and Cash Equivalents, at Carrying Value $30,708,000,000 +31%
Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Short-term Investments $126,843,000,000 +33%
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Restricted Cash and Restricted Cash Equivalents $30,708,000,000 +31%
Common Stock, Par or Stated Value Per Share 0.001 0%
Common Stock, Shares Authorized 300,000,000,000 0%
Common Stock, Shares, Issued 12,088,000,000 -1%
Common Stocks, Including Additional Paid in Capital $93,126,000,000 +9.8%
Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax, Attributable to Parent $135,054,000,000 +35%
Contract with Customer, Liability, Current $6,578,000,000 +31%
Convertible Preferred Stock, Nonredeemable or Redeemable, Issuer Option, Value $0
Cost of Revenue $162,535,000,000 +11%
Costs and Expenses $273,797,000,000 +15%
Deferred Income Tax Assets, Net $9,113,000,000 -47%
Deferred Tax Assets, Gross $48,026,000,000 +7.1%
Deferred Tax Assets, Net of Valuation Allowance $34,084,000,000 +2.2%
Deferred Tax Assets, Operating Loss Carryforwards $4,953,000,000 +43%
Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance $13,942,000,000 +21%
Earnings Per Share, Basic 10.91 +34%
Earnings Per Share, Diluted 10.81 +34%
Employee-related Liabilities, Current $17,546,000,000 +16%
General and Administrative Expense $21,482,000,000 +51%
Goodwill $33,380,000,000 +4.7%
Income (Loss) from Continuing Operations before Income Taxes, Noncontrolling Interest $158,826,000,000 +33%
Income Tax Expense (Benefit) $26,656,000,000 +35%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid $18,251,000,000 +7.1%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid, Year Four $2,061,000,000 +12%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid, Year One $3,275,000,000 +3.6%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid, Year Three $2,510,000,000 +8.6%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, to be Paid, Year Two $3,082,000,000 +9.1%
Lessee, Operating Lease, Liability, Undiscounted Excess Amount $2,297,000,000 -6.6%
Liabilities $180,016,000,000 +44%
Liabilities and Equity $595,281,000,000 +32%
Liabilities, Current $102,745,000,000 +15%
Marketable Securities, Current $96,135,000,000 +33%
Nonoperating Income (Expense) $29,787,000,000 +301%
Operating Income (Loss) $129,039,000,000 +15%
Operating Lease, Liability $15,954,000,000 +9.4%
Operating Lease, Liability, Current $3,209,000,000 +11%
Operating Lease, Liability, Noncurrent $12,744,000,000 +9%
Operating Lease, Payments $3,370,000,000 -1.6%
Operating Lease, Right-of-Use Asset $15,221,000,000 +12%
Operating Lease, Weighted Average Discount Rate, Percent 0.036 +5.9%
Other Assets, Current $16,309,000,000 +3.8%
Other Assets, Noncurrent $16,245,000,000 +9.2%
Other Liabilities, Noncurrent $8,449,000,000 +80%
Other Long-term Investments $68,687,000,000 +81%
Preferred Stock, Par or Stated Value Per Share 0.001 0%
Preferred Stock, Shares Authorized 100,000,000 0%
Preferred Stock, Shares Issued 0
Preferred Stock, Shares Outstanding 0
Research and Development Expense $61,087,000,000 +24%
Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit) $324,055,000,000 +32%
Selling and Marketing Expense $28,693,000,000 +3.2%
Share-based Payment Arrangement, Expense $27,100,000,000 +19%
Stockholders' Equity Attributable to Parent $415,265,000,000 +28%
Unrecognized Tax Benefits $11,512,000,000 -8.8%

How we score

This score is transparent and deterministic. We weight profitability, financial health, and growth metrics, then renormalize weights when SEC data is missing.

Metric Weight V1 threshold
ROIC205% to 20%
ROE158% to 25%
ROA102% to 10%
Operating Margin55% to 25%
Current Ratio121.0x to 2.0x
Quick Ratio80.8x to 1.5x
Debt to Equity100.3x to 2.0x (lower is better)
Revenue YoY10-10% to +20%
Net Income YoY10-10% to +20%

How Calculated (standard_v1)

Metrics are computed with a market-consensus convention designed for cross-portal comparability.

  • TTM Operating Income / TTM Revenues
  • Current Assets / Current Liabilities (latest instant quarter)
  • (Current Assets - Inventory) / Current Liabilities; fallback: (Cash+Short-Term Investments + Accounts Receivable) / Current Liabilities
  • Total Debt / Stockholders Equity (latest instant quarter; shared unit; freshest series)
  • TTM Net Income / Average Equity (current quarter + same quarter previous year) / 2
  • TTM Net Income / Average Assets (current quarter + same quarter previous year) / 2
  • TTM NOPAT / Average Invested Capital, where NOPAT=Operating Income*(1-tax rate), Invested Capital=Equity+Total Debt-Cash & ST Investments
  • TTM Revenues YoY
  • TTM Net Income YoY