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Despite a strong day in the broader market, shares of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) traded roughly 2.8% lower as of 12:59 p.m. ET today. The move came after ChatGPT's parent company, OpenAI, teased the launch of its artificial intelligence (AI) -powered web browser, ChatGPT Atlas.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT currently boasts 800 million weekly active users; however, Google still retains a monopoly over the search engine space, with an approximate 80% market share, according to research.
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The good news sent shares soaring, with the stock up over 30% since reporting Q2 earnings. That's a monstrous move for a large company like Alphabet ( it's currently the fourth-largest company in the world and recently crossed the $3 trillion valuation mark for the first time), but can it continue?
Revenue growth recently accelerated in some of Alphabet's core businesses, including Google Search and Google Cloud.
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At just under $250, Alphabet stock now trades at a market cap of $3 trillion. This gives the stock a trailing P/E ratio of 26.5. This is compared to a P/E ratio of 39 at Microsoft and 53 at Nvidia, and is even lower than the S&P 500 average of 31 right now.