Consolidated Portfolio Review Corp Has $13.39 Million Stake in Alphabet Inc. $GOOGL

Consolidated Portfolio Review Corp grew its position in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) by 129.8% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 42,780 shares of the information services provider’s stock after purchasing an additional 24,167 shares during the quarter. Alphabet comprises approximately 1.2% of Consolidated Portfolio Review Corp’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 15th biggest position. Consolidated Portfolio Review Corp’s holdings in Alphabet were worth $13,390,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in GOOGL. Brighton Jones LLC grew its position in shares of Alphabet by 3.9% in the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 110,330 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $20,886,000 after purchasing an additional 4,110 shares during the last quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC grew its position in shares of Alphabet by 3.5% in the fourth quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC now owns 14,930 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $2,826,000 after purchasing an additional 506 shares during the last quarter. Matrix Asset Advisors Inc. NY grew its position in shares of Alphabet by 17.6% in the second quarter. Matrix Asset Advisors Inc. NY now owns 3,888 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $685,000 after purchasing an additional 581 shares during the last quarter. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Alphabet by 11.2% in the second quarter. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC now owns 485,486 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $85,557,000 after purchasing an additional 48,805 shares during the last quarter. Finally, United Bank grew its position in Alphabet by 6.9% during the second quarter. United Bank now owns 48,204 shares of the information services provider’s stock worth $8,495,000 after buying an additional 3,120 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 40.03% of the company’s stock.

Key Alphabet News

Here are the key news stories impacting Alphabet this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q1 earnings beat and strong top-line — Alphabet reported $5.11 EPS vs. consensus ~ $2.62 and revenue ~ $109.9B, topping estimates; investors treated the print as confirmation that heavy AI/cloud spending is translating to growth. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Google Cloud acceleration — Cloud revenue grew ~63% and surpassed $20B, signaling strong enterprise AI demand that materially boosted the quarter. This is a primary driver of the stock strength. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Subscription and YouTube momentum — Alphabet added ~25M paid subscriptions (now ~350M) and YouTube ad revenue rose ~11%, showing diversified, recurring revenue beyond search ads. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: New monetization paths in AI — Management signaled openness to placing ads in Gemini/AI Mode and is enabling commerce inside AI apps via partners (e.g., Stripe), which creates additional long-term ad and transactions revenue streams. Read More. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Defense contracts could open new TAM — Alphabet signed classified-access arrangements with the U.S. DoD for Gemini models, creating a potential high-margin revenue stream but also raising ethical/backlash considerations. Investors view this as revenue-positive but reputationally mixed. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst updates lift expectations — Some firms nudged FY estimates higher after the results, supporting the near-term bull case but also reflecting momentum already priced into the stock. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Cloud capacity constraints — Management flagged capacity limits that may have constrained Cloud growth this quarter, raising questions about how quickly Alphabet can scale without heavy incremental capex or allocation trade-offs. That introduces near-term growth/ margin uncertainty. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Governance, employee and regulatory risk — Shareholder groups and employees pushed for more safeguards over cloud/AI use (and Alphabet expanded Pentagon access), and EU/Australian policy moves could increase compliance costs or limit certain revenue channels. These are top-down risks that can weigh multiple quarters out. Read More. Read More.

Alphabet Stock Up 0.0%

NASDAQ GOOGL opened at $349.94 on Thursday. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $312.08 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $307.27. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.11, a current ratio of 2.01 and a quick ratio of 2.01. Alphabet Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $147.84 and a fifty-two week high of $355.79. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.23 trillion, a PE ratio of 32.37, a PEG ratio of 2.17 and a beta of 1.12.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, April 29th. The information services provider reported $5.11 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.64 by $2.47. Alphabet had a return on equity of 35.01% and a net margin of 32.81%.The firm had revenue of $109.90 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $106.59 billion. Equities analysts expect that Alphabet Inc. will post 11.53 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity

In other Alphabet news, CAO Amie Thuener O’toole sold 617 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $289.63, for a total transaction of $178,701.71. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer directly owned 10,093 shares in the company, valued at $2,923,235.59. This represents a 5.76% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider John Kent Walker sold 8,993 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $275.89, for a total value of $2,481,078.77. Following the sale, the insider owned 51,808 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $14,293,309.12. The trade was a 14.79% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 2,037,192 shares of company stock valued at $94,182,217. Corporate insiders own 11.55% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages recently issued reports on GOOGL. Royal Bank Of Canada reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Alphabet in a research report on Monday. Barclays reissued an “overweight” rating and set a $360.00 price target (up from $315.00) on shares of Alphabet in a research report on Thursday, February 5th. DZ Bank reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Alphabet in a research report on Monday, February 16th. Sanford C. Bernstein increased their price target on Alphabet from $305.00 to $335.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research report on Monday, February 2nd. Finally, KeyCorp increased their price target on Alphabet from $370.00 to $380.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Monday, April 20th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty-six have assigned a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Alphabet presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $369.67.

Alphabet Company Profile

Alphabet Inc is the holding company created in 2015 to organize Google and a portfolio of businesses developing technologies beyond Google’s core internet services. Its principal operations are led by Google, which builds and operates consumer-facing products such as Google Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Workspace, as well as advertising platforms (Google Ads and AdSense) that historically generate the majority of its revenue. Google also develops consumer hardware (Pixel phones, Nest smart-home devices, Chromecast) and developer and distribution platforms such as Google Play.

Beyond Google’s consumer and advertising businesses, Alphabet invests in enterprise and infrastructure offerings through Google Cloud, which provides cloud computing, data analytics and productivity services to businesses and institutions.