What is google alphabet class a

GOOGL shares are categorized as Class A shares. Class A shares are known as common shares. They give investors an ownership stake and, typically, voting rights. They are the most common type of shares.

What is the difference between Google Alphabet class A and C?

The Class A stock carries one vote per share in every situation that counts up shareholder ballots. Class C shares have no voting powers at all. The Class B stock consists of so-called supervoting shares.

Why is Google Alphabet Class A?

In order to guarantee that the company's founders would retain control of the company, Google split its publicly traded stock into two: Class A GOOGL shares and Class C GOOG shares. The strategy behind the move is simple: owners of GOOGL stock would have one vote per share, whereas owners of GOOG have no voting rights.

Is Google Class A or C better?

The A class shares have the symbol GOOGL and come with one vote, while the C class shares have the symbol GOOG and come with no voting rights at all. The shares have the same economic interest in Google's business, so other than voting rights there is really no reason to prefer one or the other.

Is Google Alphabet A?

Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries.