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Alphabet (GOOGL) closed at $298.70 on November 12, 2026, up 1.79%, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.39%.
Financial media tied the gain to Nvidia's announcement that CEO Jensen Huang had resigned, which put Alphabet's own AI chips in focus.
GOOGL still sits 26.90% below its 52-week high, while GuruFocus flagged capital expenditures of $132 billion through September.
Gotrade News - In the latest Google stock news, Alphabet (GOOGL) closed at $298.70 on Thursday, November 12, 2026, a move of +$5.25 (+1.79%), while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.39%.
Financial media tied the gain in Google stock to Nvidia's announcement that its chief executive, Jensen Huang, had resigned, a change that put Alphabet's own AI chips in focus.
GOOGL Trading Data
Data
Value
Closing price
$298.70
Change
+$5.25 (+1.79%)
Previous close
$293.45
Open
$293.77
Day range
$293.69 to $302.56
Volume
35.5 million shares
30-day average volume
34.4 million shares
52-week range
$270.70 to $408.61
Regular-session close on Thursday, November 12, 2026, 4:00 p.m. New York time. Stock prices: Yahoo Finance, cross-checked against the closing price on Nasdaq.com. Volume and 30-day average volume: Nasdaq.com. 52-week range: Yahoo Finance daily highs and lows since November 13, 2025. Indices: Yahoo Finance daily closes for the same date.
GOOGL opened at $293.77 and traded between $293.69 and $302.56. It finished $5.01 above the day's low but below the session high, so part of the intraday gain faded before the bell. Volume reached 35.5 million shares, 3.18% above the 34.4 million share average.
The gain came against a weaker market. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 25,366.09 (-0.39%), the S&P 500 at 7,592.40 (-0.35%) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 52,297.09 (-0.36%), leaving GOOGL +2.18 percentage points ahead of the Nasdaq.
Among large tech peers, Microsoft rose 0.36% and Amazon 0.48%, while Meta Platforms slipped 0.82%. Chip stocks split: Nvidia fell 4.34%, while Broadcom gained 5.54% and AMD 5.86%. GOOGL still sits 26.90% below its 52-week high and 10.34% above its 52-week low.
Why Google Stock Rose
The trigger came from Nvidia rather than from Alphabet itself. According to Nvidia's Form 8-K filing dated November 12, Huang resigned as president, chief executive officer and board member, effective immediately, with CFO Colette Kress named interim CEO and former Synopsys chief Harvey C. Jones named the board's first chair. As reported by CNBC, Nvidia (NVDA) shares were down as much as 14% during the day before closing 4.34% lower.
Financial media tied Alphabet's rise to that news. Per The Motley Fool, investors appeared to be betting that Alphabet's chips had a greater chance of taking market share after Huang's exit, although the author noted that the consequences remain unclear. The same report pointed to Broadcom (AVGO), Alphabet's TPU design partner, which rose 5.54% while most chip stocks fell.
The chip story had been building all week. On November 9, Google introduced the TPU 8tx for confidential inference and small-scale training, and the TPU 8i Max, which pairs two TPU 8i chips in one package and, according to Google's announcement, roughly doubles compute, on-chip SRAM and HBM bandwidth. On November 11, Gemini Live began rolling out on Apple (AAPL) CarPlay, as reported by GuruFocus.
GOOGL Stock Analysis: Supporting Factors and Risks
Supporting Factors
The two new TPU systems widen Alphabet's in-house AI chip lineup, which The Motley Fool framed as a challenge to Nvidia.
Gemini Live on CarPlay is rolling out globally across supported languages, extending Google's assistant into connected vehicles, per GuruFocus.
In a report published after the close, GuruFocus, citing Reuters, said Alphabet's first Hong Kong-dollar and Singapore-dollar bonds drew about $5 billion in early orders against a combined target of roughly $2.2 billion.
Risks
Capital expenditures reached $132 billion through September, more than double the $63.6 billion a year earlier, and long-term debt stood at $125.1 billion at the end of September, per GuruFocus.
Third-quarter capital expenditures of $51.4 billion left free cash flow at negative $9.1 billion, and management expects 2026 capital expenditures of $195 billion to $205 billion, according to GuruFocus.
No revenue contribution from the CarPlay integration has been disclosed, and Apple is also opening the platform to rival assistants such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, per GuruFocus.
The next dated event for the AI chip group is Nvidia's third-quarter fiscal 2027 report on Tuesday, November 17, according to its filing.
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