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Share buybacks by the big 7 down negative - 33% year over year so a little bit less of price fixing going forward expected. Blackout period April
The Alphabet Inc. (googl) share price chart is looking good.
The Dailies have been in UPTREND since March 11, 2024
The Weeklies confirmed the UPTREND 2 weeks ago and both are in sync presently.
Good news as the "Monthly rounding bottom setup with trailing P/E still at relatively low levels . One of the strongest Mag 7 setups heading into April"
I wouldn't be surprised share price heading to higher levels in weeks ahead.
We shall see. GLTA
$GOOG Monthly rounding bottom setup with trailing P/E still at relatively low levels...
By: TrendSpider | March 29, 2024
• $GOOG Monthly rounding bottom setup with trailing P/E still at relatively low levels...
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lol. No volume sell off
Apple, Google and Meta at risk of ‘heavy’ fines as Europe launches new probes
CNN Business· Yves Herman/Reuters
Olesya Dmitracova, CNN
Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 7:54 AM MDT3 min read
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-google-meta-risk-heavy-114530507.html
The European Union has launched investigations into Apple, Google and Facebook parent Meta on suspicion that they are failing to comply with a new landmark European law designed to promote competition in digital services.
The European Commission said it “suspects” that various practices by all three companies “fall short of effective compliance” with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which went into effect earlier this month. If the probes find a “lack of full compliance,” they could face “heavy fines,” said European Commissioner Thierry Breton.
The DMA requires dominant online platforms to give users more choices and rivals more opportunities to compete. It currently applies to the three tech giants under investigation, as well as Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok.
By mid-May, the list could also include Elon Musk’s X and Booking.com, the EU has said.
Violations of the new law can lead to stiff penalties, including fines of up to 10% of a company’s global revenue and up to 20% for repeat offenses. For most of the regulated companies, that would translate to tens of billions of dollars.
The practices the European Commission is investigating include what it calls Meta’s “pay or consent” approach. Last October, Meta (META) launched a subscription service, called “Subscription for no ads,” allowing European users of Facebook and Instagram to pay up to €12.99 ($14) a month for ad-free versions.
“The Commission is concerned that the binary choice imposed by Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model may not provide a real alternative in case users do not consent, thereby not achieving the objective of preventing the accumulation of personal data by (large companies),” the body said in a statement.
A Meta spokesperson responded: “Subscriptions as an alternative to advertising are a well-established business model across many industries, and we designed ‘Subscription for no ads’ to address several overlapping regulatory obligations, including the DMA. We will continue to engage constructively with the Commission.”
The EU is also looking into app stores operated by Apple (AAPL) and Google. The DMA states that large digital platforms — so-called gatekeepers — must allow app developers to “steer” consumers to offers outside the two dominant stores, free of charge.
Among other concerns, the EU suspects that Apple and Google’s parent Alphabet (GOOGL) constrain developers’ ability “to freely communicate (with end-users) and promote offers and directly conclude contracts, including by imposing various charges,” the Commission said.
“We are concerned Alphabet, Apple & Meta & are not meeting their obligations, e.g.: Apple & Alphabet still charge recurring fees to app developers,” European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager wrote on X Monday.
Apple’s “choice screen” for Safari is also under scrutiny, the European Commission said. Under the DMA, Apple must prompt users with “choice screens which must effectively and easily allow them to select an alternative default service, such as a browser or search engine on their iPhones,” it noted.
Apple told CNN in a statement: “We’re confident our plan complies with the DMA, and we’ll continue to constructively engage with the European Commission as they conduct their investigations.”
Another of the Commission’s concerns pertains to Google Search. Alphabet may not have done enough to ensure that third-party services appearing in search results are treated in “a fair and non-discriminatory manner” compared with Alphabet’s own services, such as Google Shopping and Google Flights.
Oliver Bethell, a competition executive at Google, said in a statement: “To comply with the Digital Markets Act, we have made significant changes to the way our services operate in Europe.
“We have engaged with the European Commission, stakeholders and third parties in dozens of events over the past year to receive and respond to feedback, and to balance conflicting needs within the ecosystem. We will continue to defend our approach in the coming months.”
This story has been updated with additional information.
Massive changes coming to Google Chrome threaten to reshape the modern internet
By: Yahoo | March 24, 2024
Later this year Google (GOOG, GOOGL), through its Chrome browser, will end the use of third-party cookies, technology that can track people across websites to target them with personalized advertising. The transition won't come without pain.
While Google's initiative is meant to shield the privacy of users, many of the sites they rely upon and cherish could hang in the balance as a result. The move represents a profound remaking of the advertising world and user experience on the internet.
"The open web is going to suffer," said Anthony Katsur, chief executive of the IAB Tech Lab, an ad-tech industry group. "The long tail of the web, the mid-sized and smaller publishers, are going to be very impacted."
Many people are hyper-aware that the internet they experience is based on what various providers think they want to see. For marketers and businesses, that ability to infer what a user might want generates value. As targeting gets more precise, advertising can become more relevant to the audience.
Without the third-party cookie, however, businesses have less of an idea of who their audience is. That can degrade their ability to make money from advertising, making it harder to publish content for free without forcing users to hand over their emails or phone numbers.
Chrome, which commands 60% of global internet traffic, is the last major browser to allow third-party cookies. For years Apple's (AAPL) Safari and Mozilla's Firefox have blocked third-party cookies by default. But their share of the market is dwarfed by Google's. And while additional ad dollars flowed to Chrome after Safari and Mozilla enabled greater privacy protections, there will not be another browser for the ad market to fall back on once Chrome says farewell to the cookie.
As a result, websites that rely on advertising on the open internet may struggle to exist. And users may be confronted with even more ads that they are less interested in as sites try to make up for the loss in value by churning out more ad volume.
Karsten Weide, the chief analyst at W Media Research, said some publishers could suffer revenue losses of 20% to 40% as the deprecation of third-party cookies diminishes the effectiveness of ads. "In a general sense, all sorts of websites will shut down or will be diminished in what they can provide," he said. "Ironically, although this is designed to protect users, at the end of the day this will be worse for users."
The end of third-party cookies could also in some ways worsen consumer privacy, experts contend, by further normalizing granular data collection. As more businesses steer people to log in to replace the data gathering that the cookie enabled, user profiles will become more detailed and centralized, essentially trading one paradigm of monitoring for another.
Part of the change, which Google expects to happen in the second half of 2024, will bring new privacy-preserving technologies to give websites alternative ways of delivering relevant ads. Google told Yahoo Finance that the company is confident its new tools will enable developers to recover a substantial portion of the loss that might otherwise occur without third-party cookies. One of the new targeting methods groups people into a larger cohort based on their web browsing activity. The technology does not individually identify users, but instead places them into a crowd with others who likely have similar interests.
In response to criticism that the tools won't work as well as third-party cookies, Google said that the privacy initiative was never intended to replace all the features that the market has built on top of third-party cookies. Google also touted that the privacy initiative is a collaboration with other ad industry players, regulators, and consumer advocates. "No other browser has even attempted to provide such an array of solutions for the industry, let alone offered public consultation with stakeholders before making changes," the company said.
But the changes will come.
Many of the web's largest players will be better equipped to cope with the overhaul. The tech giants like Meta (META), Apple, and Amazon (AMZN) have erected their own walled gardens, giving them deep insight into the wants and behaviors of their users. And some major media companies and publishers with sizable followings can lean on subscriptions and an ecosystem of apps. They've forged direct relationships with their users through emails and logins, allowing them to generate revenue directly from their audiences and keep tabs on richer streams of data without the use of cookies.
For a great many others, striking a different balance on user privacy could trigger an extinction event. That's especially true for websites already strained by falling traffic, economic volatility, and the looming threat of an AI-led transformation. The perception that ad dollars are better spent with the trillion-dollar tech companies will likely intensify as the death of the cookie spawns a void and a scramble for what comes next.
"Advertisers tend to balk when there are uncertainties," said Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf, a senior analyst at eMarketer. “Ad spending won't go down, it’s a matter of where it goes.”
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$GOOGL Highly Unusual $1.5 Million OTM Calls
By: Cheddar Flow | March 22, 2024
• $GOOGL Highly Unusual $1.5M OTM Calls
Next week expiration too
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Nice broke threw 150.00 charts look good 🌵🛹🇺🇸
Even with the stock trading this close to ATHs, Google's trailing P/E is still relatively low
By: TrendSpider | March 21, 2024
• Even with the stock trading this close to ATHs, Google's trailing P/E is still relatively low.
Will $GOOG be a leader in the Mag 7 this year?
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Alphabet Inc (Googl) share price DOUBLE TOP BREAKOUT today on 18-March-2024. Keep Googling... who cares for Misfit, lol. GLTA
Options Bulls Resume Blitz on Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock
By: Schaeffer's Investment Research | March 18, 2024
• Alphabet options had been seeing a slight uptick in bearish bets lately
• GOOGL is executing a V-shaped rally on the charts
The class A shares of Google-parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) are 6.1% higher to trade at $149.83, after a Bloomberg report revealed that Apple (AAPL) is talking over licensing Google's Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) engine for future iPhones.
GOOGL is a consistent member of Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White's list of stocks that attracted the highest weekly options volume during the previous 10 days. Per White's data, 2,667,198 calls exchanged over this period, compared to 1,414,617 puts. The most popular contract during this time was the March 140 call.
Despite the obvious call bias, bearish bets on Alphabet stock have grown lately. At the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Cboe Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), the equity sports a 50-day put/call volume ratio that ranks in the 72nd percentile of its annual range.
Today, the skew tilts back toward the bulls. Over 700,000 contracts have changed hands, with calls representing roughly 510,000 of that figure. The weekly 3/22 155- and 152.50-strike calls are popular, with new positions being bought to open.
Despite the recent tech sector pullback, Alphabet stock is still up 6.5% in 2024, testing and bouncing off its 200-day moving average earlier this month. GOOGL is now on track for its seventh win in eight sessions, and is once more nearing its Jan. 29 record high of $153.78.
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Alphabet Shares Rise Premarket After Report of AI Talks with Apple
By: Market Talk | March 18, 2024
Shares of Google parent, Alphabet, are on the rise in Monday premarket trading after Bloomberg reported that the company is in talks with Apple to incorporate Google's artificial intelligence architecture into iPhones. The two companies are negotiating licensing agreements to build Google's generative AI engine, known as Gemini, into iPhones, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. Alphabet shares are up 4% at $146.76. Apple shares are up 0.4% at $173.37. (mauro.orru@wsj.com)
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Google's $GOOGL stock performance each full year since going public
By: Evan | March 16, 2024
• Google's $GOOGL stock performance each full year since going public
2005: +115.2%
2006: +11%
2007: +50.2%
2008: -55.5%
2009: +101.5%
2010: -4.2%
2011: +8.7%
2012: +9.5%
2013: +58.4%
2014: -5.3%
2015: +46.6%
2016: +1.9%
2017: +32.9%
2018: -0.8%
2019: +28.2%
2020: +30.9%
2021: +65.3%
2022: -39.1%
2023: +58.3%
2024: +1.1%
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$GOOG Something like this in the cards for next week?
By: TrendSpider | March 15, 2024
• $GOOG Something like this in the cards for next week?
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$GOOG Raindrop chart showing clear conviction from breakout buyers - large volume clusters near the highs on the last several daily candles.
By: TrendSpider | March 14, 2024
• $GOOG Raindrop chart showing clear conviction from breakout buyers - large volume clusters near the highs on the last several daily candles.
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Google giving C&H vibes on the weekly chart
By: TrendSpider | March 13, 2024
• Google giving C&H vibes on the weekly chart.
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$GOOG Google trying to get something going after price found its footing off the 200 day SMA... Very close to MACD flip.
By: TrendSpider | March 12, 2024
• $GOOG Google trying to get something going after price found its footing off the 200 day SMA...
Very close to MACD flip.
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$GOOGL managed to reclaim its 200-day moving average today, giving buyers some sense that perhaps we're forming a short-term bottom in the stock
By: Markets & Mayhem | March 7, 2024
• $GOOGL managed to reclaim its 200-day moving average today, giving buyers some sense that perhaps we're forming a short-term bottom in the stock.
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ALPHABET is buying huge AI data from Social Media Giant for $60 M deal.
News date, just in on March 6, 2024.
March 6 news today should get GOOG going green:
Benzinga
Open AI CEO Sam Altman Set To Make Millions From Reddit's IPO Despite Social Media's Giant $60 Million Deal To Sell AI-data To Competitor, GOOGLE.
GOOGL/GOOG has more AI upside potential than any other stock and is currently super undervalued. Buy and hold this stock. When their Gemini system is corrected this stock will easily outperform most AI related stocks.
Good luck !
Google $GOOGL co-founder Sergey Brin told a group of AI enthusiasts that he came out of retirement “because the trajectory of AI is so exciting”
By: Evan | March 5, 2024
Google $GOOGL co-founder Sergey Brin told a group of AI enthusiasts that he came out of retirement “because the trajectory of AI is so exciting”
Brin said Google “definitely messed up,” referring to the company’s faulty Gemini image generation launch earlier this month - CNBC
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They are most likely buying their stock back on this dip. They appear to have created this misstep with Gemini to buyback at a lower price.
I believe Alphabet will be doing their buyback today on the dip. More than likely primarily in the last hour of trading today. Stay tuned as they have claimed to buyback $70 billion in their stock this year.
Is GOOG price per share being manipulated lower today to allow for their planned $70 billion buy back at a lower price ? Hmmmm........
Google now trading at its cheapest valuation in nearly 12 months with price testing the 200 SMA...
By: TrendSpider | March 4, 2024
• Google now trading at its cheapest valuation in nearly 12 months with price testing the 200 SMA... $GOOG
Time for a reversal?
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The $70 billion buyback looks like a perfect time today.
Today is an excellent time to activate the planned $70 B company buy back of Alphabet's stock. Turn lemons into lemonade!
Warren Buffett can use a stake in Google. right now . Evaluations are extremely favorable that Buffett likes and is also huge cash cow. This is the low hanging fruit that Berkshire needs.
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Alphabet (GOOGL):
By: Carl Swenlin | March 1, 2024
Alphabet (GOOGL): GOOGL has run into resistance at the 2021 top, and has formed a long-term double top. The rising trend line from the 2022 low is still intact, but there is a PMO negative divergence. If that trend breaks, so will its magnificence.
Prognosis: Not good at this point. Magnificence is endangered.
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Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOGL) Flashing "Pure Weakness"
By: Erin Swenlin | March 1, 2024
We've begun talking more about the Price Momentum Oscillator (PMO) as it relates to finding "pure strength" and "pure weakness". What it all comes down to is the zero line and the PMO's behavior above or below.
We review the Magnificent 7 charts frequently and we noticed that both Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOGL) are displaying "pure weakness," as far as the PMO is concerned. Pure weakness is defined by the PMO moving lower or moving sideways below the zero line. The distance the PMO is away from the zero line determines the veracity of the condition.
We can see with AAPL, there was a period of "pure strength" back in November. The PMO had moved above the signal line and was rising strongly. When it topped and began to fall above the zero line, it was a sign of diminishing strength. Pure weakness set in when the PMO dropped beneath the zero line, and it is currently in effect. Had we followed the signal, it would've saved quite a bit of downside.
The rest of the chart looks pretty terrible, as well with a negative RSI and Stochastics below 20. Additionally, relative strength is failing across the board.
We see a similar setup on GOOGL, but this time the signal is arriving NOW as the PMO dropped beneath the zero line. While this doesn't mean a precipitous decline is ahead, it does tell us to tighten up stops, at the very least.
There are signs that there might be further decline ahead for GOOGL. The RSI is negative, and Stochastics are below 20. Additionally, relative strength is failing across the board.
Conclusion: The PMO can be used to determine the strength or weakness in a particular move based on its location and direction around the zero line. Based on the PMO, both Apple and Google are displaying pure weakness.
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Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund recommends GOOGL/GOOG as top AI pick going forward. Do not trade this stock , buy it and keep it. It is dirt cheap compared to the other stocks in the Magnificent 7.
What are Motley Fool's 5 Top AI stocks you can buy right now?
The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends in this order: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Nvidia, and The Trade Desk.
The MF also lists Tesla, but I am not fond of the TSLA and EV market hype. There was a reason Musk off loaded billions of dollars in TSLA stock. The more people buy EVs the lower the price of gas will be.
Warren Buffett does not usually pick tech stocks, but Google really fits his basic investing criteria being the best value stock of the Magnificent Seven. Additionally , Google may be be the most lucrative AI beneficiary as Bill Ackman believes for his hedge fund as well as his personal portfolio.
Currently Google appears to be in its final shake out as a result of the juvenile antics in the news yesterday by good old Musk.
Buy the dip TODAY !
Not Nvidia Or Meta: Hedge Fund Titan Bill Ackman Sees Lucrative Opportunity In This 'Magnificent 7' Stock
4:14 am ET February 27, 2024 (Benzinga) Print
Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, has expressed his confidence in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG), the parent company of Google, as a lucrative investment opportunity.
What Happened: Ackman, in a recent conversation with computer scientist and tech YouTuber Lex Fridman last week, shared his positive outlook on Alphabet. When asked about his analysis of the tech giant, Ackman highlighted the company’s strong position in the market, particularly in the field of AI.
"So it's a business we've admired as a firm for, whatever, 15 years, but rarely got to a price that we felt we could own it," he said, adding, "Because again, the expectations were so high and price really matters."
See Also: Bill Ackman Says OpenAI’s Governance Leaves ‘Something To Be Desired,’ Echoing Elon Musk’s Doubts On Non-Profit To For-Profit Transition
Hedge Fund manager Bill Ackman's best AI pick is not NVDA. His best AI pick is GOOGL/GOOG . It is a bargain compared to all other AI stocks.
Ackman has a net worth of over $4 billion . His portfolio has Alphabet as his largest holding comprising over 20% of his portfolio. GOOGL is his favorite of any of the Magnificent Seven stocks.as well as his top AI benefactor.
The current glitch in their graphics processing will be remedied asap just as other missteps have all been corrected in the past. This is not Google's first rodeo. Elon Musk should know this, but it is just another way for him to get the stock at a lower price.
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I did like wise.
I expect a significant bounce upward in the final 60-30 minutes of the market for GOOGL/GOOG today. RSI is like a compressed spring right now. The stock is currently very oversold following its last earnings release THAT WAS AN ALL TIME RECORD.
The RSI numbers look very oversold due to the temporary glitch in Gemini's AI system. I nearly doubled my position today. This is a temporary problem not a disaster.
Any thoughts here?
Does anyone know whose chip Alphabet is using that has this temporary glitch that requires correction?
$GOOG continues to look top heavy post earnings report
By: TrendSpider | February 23, 2024
• $GOOG continues to look top heavy post earnings report.
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$GOOGL - Update. Striving to hold the Top-Lane..
By: Sahara | February 22, 2024
• $GOOGL - Update.
Striving to hold the Top-Lane..
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The W in the chart is forming. Nvda just put out good results. We hit 155 watch out above
GOOGL has been into AI for 25 years and MRVL has been making AI chips for AI since year 2000. Both companies have a lot of experience and knowledge to compete with NVDA.
Cathie Wood & Ark Invest's Sells 12,146 Shares of Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)
By: Ark Invest Daily | February 15, 2024
• Cathie Wood and Ark Invest's trade activity from today 2/15.
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This thing is gonna explode with Gemini revenues in 6-9 months and election cycle
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