Oppenheimer Lifts PT on Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of the Most Promising AI Stocks to Buy Right Now. On October 20, Oppenheimer lifted the price target on the company’s stock to $300 from $270, while keeping an “Outperform” rating, as reported by The Fly. While the firm remains optimistic about the long-term benefits from Meta’s push into AI and proven ability to outgrow its competitors, it is more bullish on Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) for the near term. This optimism is backed by more conservative estimates and lower valuation despite not fully monetizing AI Mode or AI Overviews.

In a separate release, analyst John Blackledge from TD Cowen exhibited optimism about the company’s stock. This optimism is mainly focused on the strategic expansion of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s partnership with Anthropic. Notably, the collaboration enhances Google Cloud’s capacity significantly, offering Anthropic with significant compute resources, which include access to a large number of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s tensor processing unit chips. The analyst believes that the development is anticipated to fuel increased demand for Google Cloud services, cementing its market position.

Bristlemoon Capital, a global equities firm, released its Q3 2025 investor letter. Here is what the fund said:

“Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is another stock that we felt had been undeservedly beaten down by a bearish narrative that largely ignored the fundamentals of the business. We began accumulating GOOGL in June and continued adding to our position in Q3 as we waited for the market narrative to flip on its head. Alphabet needs no introduction, so we will jump straight into why we thought the AI disruption and terminal value fears were overblown.

Google failing to innovate? The notion that Google has lost the ability to innovate is a common refrain that we have heard over the past several years – essentially since the November 2022 ChatGPT moment – and one that we subscribed to ourselves at one stage. The genesis of this complaint is easy to understand: • Despite (or perhaps because of) being a tremendous monetary success, the Google Search experience has been degrading for years as sponsored links, shopping ads, algorithm changes and rampant SEO abuse made it increasingly tedious for users to find answers to their queries. • Google has nine services with over 1 billion users each, yet these are all over one or two decades old, and the company has failed to launch a new service or product with massive adoption in recent years despite its distribution advantages. At least Mark Zuckerberg has the distinction of copying well…” (Click here to read the full text)

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