Alphabet Inc.
GOOGHIGH VELOCITYDEAL MODE DOMINANTAlphabet Inc. reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Programmatic Roll-Up deploying $3B across 1 disclosed transactions, down 69% vs the prior cycle · primary market Marketing & Data, ranked #1 on disclosed spend.
Lens
Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)
$3.2B
vs $10.3B in 2020–2022
Disclosed transactions
1
2/3 active fiscal years in window
Buyer archetype
Programmatic Roll-Up
High recurring acquisition cadence, usually with many smaller targets.
Composite score
78
High Velocity dominates · Deal Mode Dominant
Behavioral posture, nine reads.
Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.
Active Acquirer
Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A
- $21.3B disclosed buyer spend
- Filed within 26d
Buyer Cadence
Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity
- Filed within 26d
- 106 8-Ks
Target Probability
Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings
Spin/Carve
Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture
Pressure Watch
Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure
Distress Watch
Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns
Restatement Risk
Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings
Capital Velocity
DominantIssuers with the highest filing-activity intensity
- 106 8-Ks
- Filed within 26d
- 4 form types
Quiet Power
Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence
- Enterprise value $4.9T
- 10-Q 26d ago
- 2 active signals
Capital cadence.
Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.
Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $6,969M · Peak count: 1
| FY | Disclosed buys | Disclosed spend | Avg ticket | Audited tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2024 | 1 | $2.7B | $2.7B | N/A |
| 2023 | N/A | $495M | N/A | N/A |
| 2022 | 1 | $7B | $7B | N/A |
| 2021 | N/A | $2.6B | N/A | N/A |
| 2020 | N/A | $738M | N/A | N/A |
Strategy posture.
The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.
Archetype mix
- Technology Acquisition25%
- Platform25%
- Bolt On25%
- Talent Acquisition25%
Strategy keywords
Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.
- technology_acquisition
- platform
- bolt_on
- talent_acquisition
Filing language.
Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.
“Acquisitions will also remain an important component of our strategy and use of capital, and we expect our current pace of acquisitions to continue.”
“In September 2022 we closed the acquisition of Mandiant to help expand our offerings in dynamic cyber defense and response.”
“The acquisition is expected to protect and advance our Android ecosystem and enhance competition in mobile computing”
“invested $1.8 billion to acquire companies, products, services, and technologies”
“an active acquisition program is an important element of our business strategy”
Market context.
Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.
Primary market
Marketing & Data
- Market spend (2023–2025)
- $51.4B
- Market spend (2020–2022)
- $63.5B
- Recent vs prior
- −19%
- Issuer rank in market
- #1 of 167
- Share of market capital
- 16.4%
Valuation positioning
GOOG trades at a +8.2-turn premium to the Marketing & Data peer median of 14.2×.
- EV / Revenue
- 11.6×
- Net debt / EBITDA
- -0.2×
- Peer median EV / EBITDA
- 14.2×
Trading comparables
FMP market data · 2026-05-10
| Company | EV / EBITDA | EV / Rev | Net debt / EBITDA | Revenue | M&A 2023–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alphabet Inc.GOOG | 22.4× | 11.6× | -0.2× | $422.6B | $3.2B |
| 14.2× | 7.5× | 0.3× | $215B | $4.2B |
Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in Marketing & Data. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.
Target landscape.
Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.
No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.
Stated target categories
No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.
Filing activity & signal stream.
Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.
Filing cadence
- 10-K (annual)132026-02-05
- 10-Q (quarterly)322026-04-30
- 8-K (event)1062026-04-29
- Proxy / DEF 14A332026-04-24
- Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)0N/A
Signals on file
- info
Signal
Serial acquisition history
- info
Signal
10-K strategy themes
Audited corpus.
No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.
This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.