Topic: How To Invest

Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline – Friday, March 21, 2025

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ALPHABET INC., Nasdaq symbols GOOG $166.25 [class C: non-voting] and GOOGL $163.99 [class A: one vote per share], remains a buy for aggressive investors. The company is the parent of Google, the world’s leading Internet search engine—it handles over 80% of global search requests. Online advertising revenue supplies the bulk of its revenue. In addition to search, Google also offers a variety of other services and products. They include Android (operating system for mobile devices), Chrome (operating system and browser), Google Cloud, Google Maps, Google Play (media downloads), Hardware (including Nest thermometers and smoke alarms) and YouTube (online videos). Google is now buying Wiz Inc., a private firm that makes cybersecurity software for cloud computing platforms. Its products scan a user’s networks looking for ways an intruder can access sensitive data. That lets it formulate a range of defences to head off cyberattacks before they occur. The company will pay $32.0 billion, making it the largest acquisition in Alphabet’s history. Even so, Alphabet can…