Which company owns Google and has the stock-market symbol GOOGL?

Alphabet owns Google and has the stock-market symbol GOOGL.

Alphabet was created in 2015 as a holding company in a corporate restructuring that placed Google and several other businesses under one parent organization. Google remained the largest and best-known part of the group, covering products such as Search, YouTube, and Android.

Alphabet’s market capitalization is calculated from the value of its publicly traded shares. It has two commonly traded share classes: Class A shares carry voting rights, while Class C shares generally do not. The ticker GOOGL refers to Alphabet’s Class A shares; GOOG refers to Class C shares.

Alphabet is often discussed alongside the world’s richest companies by market value because its advertising platform produces large revenues and because investors also value businesses such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence.