What Is The One Risk Every Google Stock Investor Should Know?
Alphabet turns about 42 cents of every sales dollar into operating cash, yet only about 12 cents is left as free cash flow. That's less than any of its big-tech peers except Amazon, and lower vs its own three-year average. The gap is capital spending, mostly on AI. Even so, Alphabet (GOOGL) stock returned 40% over the past twelve months, against 17.7% for the S&P 500. The price appears to assume that the spending will pay for itself. With Google Cloud growing fast, that looks reasonable. But man
Alphabet turns about 42 cents of every sales dollar into operating cash, yet only about 12 cents is left as free cash flow. That's less than any of its big-tech peers except Amazon, and lower vs its own three-year average. The gap is capital spending, mostly on AI. Even so, Alphabet (GOOGL) stock returned 40% over the past twelve months, against 17.7% for the S&P 500. The price appears to assume that the spending will pay for itself. With Google Cloud growing fast, that looks reasonable. But man
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