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Anyone good with investments here? How worried should I be if I own alphabet stocks?

by joelbluminator 6y ago

austincheney 6y ago
If this works out like it did for the breakup of Standard Oil you will be very wealthy.
- mikestew 6y ago
  I don't mean to be snarky, but do you think a comparison to a company that was dissolved over 100 years ago by people long dead is apt?
  - vorpalhex 6y ago
    Standard oil may have a different name now, but it still very much exists and those children companies are still amongst the wealthiest companies in the world.
- chrisco255 6y ago
  If it works like AT&T though, not so much.
thoughtstheseus 6y ago
No one knows, it depends how they breakup or regulate. On the flip side google will likely stop spending money on random projects.
timwaagh 6y ago
Worried if this is true
mywittyname 6y ago
You will get a stake in any spin-off companies that result from DoJ action. So there's no worries from that perspective. However, this will take years to litigate and a lot can happen to a tech company over that timeframe.
jedberg 6y ago
If they even decide to go through with it it would be years before anything actually happens. But, assuming they do and it does, I suspect it would go down like this: Google is split into Google Ads and Google Data Collection. Search, Youtube, and all the other things they use to collect data on you will go to DC, and GA will just do ads. DC will need to find a source of revenue, and will start bundling up selling the data they collect on you. One of their customers will be GA. But maybe some upstart company or Amazon or Microsoft will be their customers too. GA will lose value because they will have to increase payouts/lower prices to compete with their new competitors. DC will go up in value because of all their new sources of revenue. You'll be a shareholder in both and probably see your total value go up because Data Collection will probably make more money than Google Ads loses.
empath75 6y ago
I'd say not worried at all in the long term and maybe slightly worried in the short term. Microsoft is doing fine after a few years of bad returns. The successor companies to AT&T and Standard Oil did fine.
hogFeast 6y ago
The value will go up. Biggest issue with Alphabet is that it is run like a govt bureaucracy. You have one business that is very valuable, and to own that you have to pay the tax of owning all the other stuff that does nothing but burn cash for the benefit of employees.

Anyone good with investments here? How worried should I be if I own alphabet stocks?

austincheney 6y ago

If this works out like it did for the breakup of Standard Oil you will be very wealthy.

mikestew 6y ago
I don't mean to be snarky, but do you think a comparison to a company that was dissolved over 100 years ago by people long dead is apt?
- vorpalhex 6y ago
  Standard oil may have a different name now, but it still very much exists and those children companies are still amongst the wealthiest companies in the world.
chrisco255 6y ago
If it works like AT&T though, not so much.

thoughtstheseus 6y ago

No one knows, it depends how they breakup or regulate. On the flip side google will likely stop spending money on random projects.

timwaagh 6y ago

Worried if this is true

mywittyname 6y ago

You will get a stake in any spin-off companies that result from DoJ action. So there's no worries from that perspective. However, this will take years to litigate and a lot can happen to a tech company over that timeframe.

jedberg 6y ago

If they even decide to go through with it it would be years before anything actually happens. But, assuming they do and it does, I suspect it would go down like this: Google is split into Google Ads and Google Data Collection. Search, Youtube, and all the other things they use to collect data on you will go to DC, and GA will just do ads. DC will need to find a source of revenue, and will start bundling up selling the data they collect on you. One of their customers will be GA. But maybe some upstart company or Amazon or Microsoft will be their customers too. GA will lose value because they will have to increase payouts/lower prices to compete with their new competitors. DC will go up in value because of all their new sources of revenue. You'll be a shareholder in both and probably see your total value go up because Data Collection will probably make more money than Google Ads loses.

empath75 6y ago

I'd say not worried at all in the long term and maybe slightly worried in the short term. Microsoft is doing fine after a few years of bad returns. The successor companies to AT&T and Standard Oil did fine.

hogFeast 6y ago

The value will go up. Biggest issue with Alphabet is that it is run like a govt bureaucracy. You have one business that is very valuable, and to own that you have to pay the tax of owning all the other stuff that does nothing but burn cash for the benefit of employees.