Alphabet Inc. (Class C) (GOOG)USD

Alphabet Inc. is an American technology holding company and the parent of Google and several other subsidiaries, operating primarily in software and internet-related technologies. The business started as Google, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University. Alphabet Inc. was created in 2015 through a corporate restructuring that made Google a wholly owned subsidiary. Google first went public on the Nasdaq in 2004. Alphabet's Class C non-voting shares trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol GOOG, while its Class A voting shares trade separately under GOOGL. Alphabet reports its operations across three segments: Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets. Google Services covers core products including Search, advertising, Android, Chrome, Google Maps, Google Play, YouTube, and hardware devices such as the Pixel line. The Other Bets segment includes earlier-stage businesses such as Waymo, Verily, Calico, Wing, GFiber, and X, the company's moonshot laboratory. Alphabet is classified in the Communication Services sector under the Interactive Media and Services industry and is one of the largest technology companies in the world by revenue and market capitalization.