Alphabet owns Google and is listed under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG.
Alphabet became Google’s parent company in 2015, when Google reorganized its operations under a new corporate structure. The change separated the core Google businesses from a collection of other projects, often called “Other Bets.”
Alphabet has two widely known share classes on the Nasdaq. GOOGL shares generally carry voting rights, while GOOG shares generally do not. Both represent economic ownership in Alphabet, although their prices can differ slightly.
Google remains Alphabet’s largest business, with search advertising, YouTube, Android, and cloud computing among its major activities. Alphabet is often included in lists of the world’s richest companies by market capitalization. It should not be confused with Google itself when a question asks for the publicly traded parent company.