Alphabet became the first company to join the $2 trillion market-cap club after Apple and Microsoft.
Alphabet is the parent company created during Google’s 2015 corporate restructuring. Google remains its best-known business, while Alphabet also oversees areas such as YouTube, Google Cloud, and other technology projects. The holding-company structure separated Google’s core internet products from its longer-term ventures.
Alphabet crossed a $2 trillion market capitalization in 2021, joining a very small group of companies valued at that level by public investors. The exact ranking can change because market caps fluctuate with share prices. Alphabet’s valuation is not the same as Google’s annual advertising revenue: it represents the market’s combined assessment of all outstanding Alphabet shares.