Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer discussed along with macroeconomic conditions. Cramer highlighted some reasons “to like Alphabet,” as he remarked:
“First, for the communication services sector, which is an odd amalgama of a group of including, say, both traditional telecom companies as well as some gigantic tech companies like Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Netflix. I wanted to know if the advertising market, the most important profit center for the first two of those I just mentioned, would hold up in 2025, but as it turns out, I was asking the wrong question. Sure, the advertising market’s been fine, but I should have been asking about how the mega caps would hold up in the race for AI supremacy. Alphabet’s made great strides with the release of Gemini 3, one reason its stock’s up more than 60% for the year. Meta, on the other hand, hasn’t been able to convince Wall Street that its AI bets will pay off yet, which is why it’s only up 13%…
At the time, I thought that Alphabet’s Waymo was the leader, but I said that Tesla had a good chance to catch up with Elon Musk so close to the president. Well, as we exit 2025, Waymo’s clearly still the market leader, and its success is yet another reason to like Alphabet, one of the best-performing stocks of the year. Although I’m mindful of that San Francisco power outage story. That was a big Waymo setback just this weekend.”
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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) provides tech-related products and services, including search, advertising, cloud computing, AI tools, and digital content platforms like YouTube and Google Play.
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