Here are the Reasons to Establish a Position in Alphabet (GOOGL)

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Qualivian Investment Partners, an investment partnership focused on long-only public equities, released its Q1 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The fund outperformed the iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (QUAL) by 66.0% and 59.4% on a gross and net basis, since inception through March 31, 2025. It also exceeded the S&P 500 by 32.7% and 26.1% respectively, on a gross and net basis. In Q1 2025, the fund outperformed QUAL by 5.3% and 5.2% on a gross and net basis, and we outperformed the S&P 500 by 5.2% and 5.1% on a gross and net basis. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2025.

In its first-quarter 2025 investor letter, Qualivian Investment Partners highlighted stocks such as Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL). Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL), the parent company of Google, offers various platforms and services operating through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The one-month return of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was 5.81%, and its shares lost 5.07% of their value over the last 52 weeks. On July 1, 2025, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) stock closed at $175.84 per share, with a market capitalization of $2.14 trillion.

Qualivian Investment Partners stated the following regarding Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) in its Q1 2025 investor letter:

(NASDAQ:GOOGL) declined in the quarter due to (1) uncertainty regarding the returns on the large amount of capital expenditure being spent on generative AI investments and whether they will yield proper returns and (2) whether competing generative AI chatbots (Chat GPT, Perplexity, others) will take share away from GOOGL’s core search business.