{"id":1252,"date":"2026-10-23T20:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T02:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2026-11-04T21:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:02:29","slug":"is-alphabet-worth-more-as-two-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Is Alphabet worth more as two companies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is Alphabet worth more as two companies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its shares cost about 19 times next year&#8217;s expected profit. By <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/10\/29\/alphabet-worst-day-google-search-valuation-energy-sector-bofa\/\">Bank of America&#8217;s count<\/a>, that price values Search at about 10 times. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/10\/29\/alphabet-should-split-its-search-business-from-its-cloud-business-says-d-a-davidsons-gil-luria.html\">On CNBC<\/a>, D.A. Davidson&#8217;s Gil Luria argued Google Cloud alone could fetch 30 to 40 times: its revenue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/0001652044\/000165204426000080\/googexhibit991q32026.htm\">more than doubled last quarter<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/29\/alphabet-google-search-ai-earnings.html\">Search revenue growth slowed to 12%<\/a> as more questions go to AI chatbots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luria sees little that Cloud and advertising share. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/0001652044\/000165204426000080\/googexhibit991q32026.htm\">Alphabet&#8217;s own accounts<\/a> show one thing they do: $7.7B of costs last quarter, mostly shared AI research, charged to neither business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together or apart is a strategy call before it is a valuation. <em><strong>Strategist<\/strong><\/em> is built to put an independent strategy beside management&#8217;s, with every source shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which would you choose? <a href=\"https:\/\/strategist.intelligenxe.com\">strategist.intelligenxe.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Alphabet worth more as two companies? Its shares cost about 19 times next year&#8217;s expected profit. By Bank of America&#8217;s count, that price values Search at about 10 times. On CNBC, D.A. Davidson&#8217;s Gil Luria argued Google Cloud alone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/?p=1252\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intelligenxe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}