Alphabetvs.Microsoft
GOOGL vs MSFT · both in Cloud platforms, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: Rents out the compute — the 'power grid' of the AI era.
Alphabet is about 1.5× larger than Microsoft by market cap; Microsoft trades at the lower P/E (22.8 vs 26.9); year to date, Alphabet leads (+14.1% vs −20.4%).
Side by side
| GOOGL | MSFT | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $4.3T | $2.9T |
| Price | $357.18 | $385.10 |
| Today | −0.5% | +0.2% |
| Return YTD | +14.1% | −20.4% |
| Return 1Y | +101.1% | −23.2% |
| P/E | 26.9 | 22.8 |
| P/S | 10.2 | 9.0 |
| P/B | 9.0 | 6.9 |
Data as of 2026-07-11 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
AlphabetGOOGL
Google's parent company is unique: its own cloud, own TPU chips, own frontier model (Gemini) and the world's largest distribution channel in Search and Android.
Full GOOGL profile →MicrosoftMSFT
The world's largest software company. Azure cloud, Copilot products and the close OpenAI partnership make Microsoft the broadest player of the AI era.
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