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Technology · fiscal year ending 2025-12-31

Alphabet files one set of accounts for both of its listed share classes, so every figure on this page is the same as on GOOGL. The difference is in the shares, not the filings: GOOG is the class C share and carries no vote, GOOGL is class A and carries one vote each.

Through the investors’ lenses

2 of 2 cleared7 of 7 criteria

Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.

Warren Buffett 4/4
MeasureGOOGChecked against
Owner earnings$61.86bnpositive
Return on equity31.8%US median 2.8%
Debt to equity0.12xUS median 0.57x
Operating margin32.0%US median 3.1%

Passes 4 of 4. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to Alphabet’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Benjamin Graham 3/3
MeasureGOOGChecked against
Current ratio2.01x2.00x published
Long-term debt to working capital0.45x1.00x published
Positive earnings, ten years running10 yrs10 published

Passes 3 of 3. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to Alphabet’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

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The business

MeasureGOOGUS medianFormula
Return on equity31.8%2.8%Net income ÷ shareholders’ equity
Return on capital employed27.8%5.2%Operating income ÷ (equity + total debt)
Owner earnings$61.86bn$1.20mNet income + depreciation & amortisation − capital expenditure
Free cash flow$73.27bn$8.11mOperating cash flow − capital expenditure
Operating margin32.0%3.1%Operating income ÷ revenue
Net margin32.8%2.0%Net income ÷ revenue
Debt to equity0.12x0.57xTotal debt ÷ shareholders’ equity
Interest cover175.32x1.02xOperating income ÷ interest expense
Current ratio2.01x1.69xCurrent assets ÷ current liabilities
Long-term debt to working capital0.45x1.09xLong-term debt ÷ (current assets − current liabilities)
Cash conversion1.25x1.58xOperating cash flow ÷ net income
Accruals-5.5%-4.7%(Net income − operating cash flow) ÷ total assets

Ten years of it

The same measures, for every year the filings support. One year is a fact; a row is a business.

Measure2025202420232022202120202019201820172016US median
Return on equity31.8%30.8%26.0%23.4%30.2%18.1%17.0%17.3%8.3%14.0%18.1%
Return on capital employed27.8%33.4%28.5%27.6%29.5%17.3%16.7%15.2%16.7%16.6%17.3%
Operating margin32.0%32.1%27.4%26.5%30.6%22.6%21.1%20.1%23.6%26.3%26.3%
Net margin32.8%28.6%24.0%21.2%29.5%22.1%21.2%22.5%11.4%21.6%22.1%
Debt to equity0.12x0.04x0.05x0.06x0.06x0.07x0.02x0.02x0.03x0.03x0.04x
Current ratio2.01x1.84x2.10x2.38x2.93x3.07x3.37x3.92x5.14x6.29x2.93x
Cash conversion1.25x1.25x1.38x1.53x1.21x1.62x1.59x1.56x2.93x1.85x1.53x

How it compares in technology

Among the 102 technology companies here measured on free cash flow, Alphabet pays out less than 79 of them. The median for that group is 25.9%, against this company’s 13.7%.

Closest on free cash flow

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Also on: rated tight · when it files.

Who else looks like this

Every figure above is computed from Alphabet’s own filing, and every company here is measured the same way. Screen all of them on any of these twelve measures, or on the rules two investors published — free, and nothing you screen leaves your browser.

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