GOOGLAlphabet Inc. (Class A)

Communication · Internet & Software Services · Nasdaq · also trades as GOOG

As our founders Larry and Sergey wrote in the original founders' letter, "Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one." 10-K, Item 1

Employees: 190,820
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
CEO: Sundar Pichai
Next results: around Feb 3, 2027

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Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks

prospectuses (S-3, 424B) of the last three years and the 10-K cash flow From EDGAR

Shares offered

Since Nov 11, 2023: 1 at-the-market program, 1 sale of new shares, 2 convertible offerings, 2 shelf registrations; also 1 notes offering, 1 update to an earlier prospectus. Latest at-the-market program for common stock: Jun 2, 2026, up to $40.0B.

Jun 4, 2026 Convertible preferred stock: 167.5M shares 424B5
Jun 4, 2026 Convertible preferred stock: 167.5M shares 424B5
Jun 4, 2026 Sale of 25.5M new shares 424B5
Jun 2, 2026 At-the-market program: up to $40.0B of common stock 424B5
Jun 1, 2026 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
Apr 25, 2025 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR

“We are offering 167,500,000 of our Series B Depositary Shares (“Series B Depositary Shares”), each of which represents a 1/20th interest in a share of our 6.25% Series B Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Series B Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock”).”
424B5, Jun 4, 2026 ↗

Every offering filing →

Paid in stock

$25.0B

stock-based pay, year to Dec 31, 2025

Bought back

$45.7B

cash paid for its own shares, year to Dec 31, 2025: 1.8× the stock pay

Diluted shares: 12.23B in the year to Dec 31, 2025 2025 -1.7%2024 -2.2%2023 -3.3%

Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How

Where the cash came from and where it went

Last year 3 years 5 years

FY2025, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up.

Came from

Operating cash flow NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities, 0001652044-26-000018	$164.7B
Debt raised ProceedsFromDebtNetOfIssuanceCosts, 0001652044-26-000018	$64.6B

Went to

Capital spending PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment, 0001652044-26-000018	$91.4B
Buybacks PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock, 0001652044-26-000018	$45.7B
Dividends PaymentsOfDividends, 0001652044-26-000018	$10.0B
Added to cash CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalentsPeriodIncreaseDecreaseIncludingExchangeRateEffect, 0001652044-26-000018	$7.2B
Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates	$74.8B

Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.

Buybacks, year to Dec 31, 2025

$45.7B

cash paid for its own shares

Paid in stock to employees

$25.0B

buybacks were 1.8× this

Share count, 1 year

-1.7%

fewer shares: each share owns more

Share count, 3 years

-7.1%

diluted average shares

Fiscal year to	Buybacks	Dividends	Stock pay	Shares issued for cash	Diluted shares
2025-12-31	$45.7B	$10.0B	$25.0B	-	12.23B
2024-12-31	$62.2B	$7.4B	$22.8B	-	12.45B
2023-12-31	$61.5B	$0	$22.5B	-	12.72B
2022-12-31	$59.3B	$0	$19.4B	-	13.16B
2021-12-31	$50.3B	-	$15.4B	-	-

From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfDividends; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.

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