What is the total market value of Alphabet, Inc, the parent company of Google? It is very confusing. I like a simple answer: just multiple number of shares outstanding time the price per share. With Alphabet, however, there are three classes of shares, A,B and C. Class A shares have voting rights and have the ticker symbol GOOGL, Class B stock is the same except each share has 10 voting rights and they are privately owned, Class C shares have no voting rights and have the ticker symbol GOOG. The number of Class B stock is unknown, except I saw the number of 52 million shares
here. The price of Class B stock is also unknown, except for this purpose I will use the same number as Class A stock. So here is the value I come up with as of today (April 6):
Alphabet Stock Valuation |
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As of April 6, 2016 |
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Symbol |
Shares O/S |
Price/Share |
Total (M) |
Class A |
GOOGL |
292.58 |
768.07 |
224,721.92 |
Class B |
(Private) |
52 |
768.07 |
39,939.64 |
Class C |
GOOG |
345.54 |
745.69 |
257,665.72 |
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Total |
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522,327.28 |
Now I need to do the same analysis for Berkshire Hathaway and Facebook, whose valuation is also confusing.
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