Gil Luria, D.A. Davidson analyst, said in a recent program on CNBC that the “only way” for Alphabet to unlock shareholder value is to spin off its businesses. Luria believes Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s search business will continue to keep the stock’s valuation limited amid challenges.
“The only way forward for Google is to do a big bang breakup—so spin off the ad network, spin off the cloud, the AI business with or without the TPU business, spin off the TPU business, spin off YouTube,” Luria said. “That’s the only way shareholders will get the full value of these businesses. Because search is so overwhelming, the stock is just trading at 16 times earnings. It’s an untenable situation. They need to isolate the search business. It’s controversial. They’ll continue to trade it at 16 times. The other businesses are going to trade at 50 times. They’ll trade at 10 times revenue. And that’s how the stock can double. All the management team has to do is move forward on that kind of plan.”
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ClearBridge Large Cap Value Strategy stated the following regarding Alphabet Inc. in its Q1 2025 investor letter:
This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
