Is Google Cloud Officially Driving the Train?

Let’s be honest. When a stock you own doubles, you feel like a genius. When it’s a behemoth like Alphabet (GOOGL), and it returns +105% in a year, you might wonder if you’ve misread the chart. You haven’t. Over the past 12 months, while the S&P 500 gained a respectable 21%, Alphabet left it in the dust. It also trounced its mega-cap peers; Microsoft (MSFT) stock returned -21.9%, and Meta Platforms (META) returned -16.2% over the same period.