Alphabet owns the Google search engine and is regularly ranked among the world’s most valuable companies.
Alphabet was created in 2015 through a corporate restructuring of Google. Google became a subsidiary, while Alphabet became the parent company for Google and several other businesses and research projects.
Google remains Alphabet’s largest and best-known operation. Its products include Search, YouTube, Android, Google Maps, and Google Cloud. Advertising connected to Google Search and other services has historically supplied the largest share of Alphabet’s revenue.
Alphabet’s market capitalization can rise or fall daily because it depends on the company’s share price and shares outstanding. Google is therefore the operating brand most people recognize, while Alphabet is the publicly traded parent whose stock-market value is usually compared with Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and other corporate giants.