Key Highlights
- 10 stocks we like better than Alphabet › Let's turn the calendar back six months to early June.
- Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) was down over 10% year to date, while the S&P 500 had recovered from the tariff-induced sell-off in April and was roughly flat on the year.
- Fast-forward to today, and Alphabet is up 67% year to date, has more than doubled off of its 52-week low, and surpassed Microsoft to become the third-most valuable company in the world behind Nvidia and Apple.
- In 2025, Alphabet is by far the best-performing "Magnificent Seven" stock, with Nvidia in a distant second place with a 35.1% year-to-date gain.
- Here's why Alphabet's rise wasn't a fluke, how you can identify Alphabet-like stocks before they pop, and why Alphabet has room to run in 2026.
