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GOOGL vs VNET
Side-by-side comparison of Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) and VNET Group Inc. (VNET): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both GOOGL and VNET operate in Computer Software: Programming Data Processing (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
- GOOGL is the larger of the two at $4.24T, about 2163.3x VNET ($1.96B).
- Over the past year, GOOGL is up 67.5% and VNET is down 12.0% - GOOGL leads by 79.5 points.
- GOOGL has been more active in the news (6 items in the past 4 weeks vs 5 for VNET).
- GOOGL has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 13 for VNET).
- Company
- Alphabet Inc.
- VNET Group Inc.
- Price
- $346.94-0.33%
- $6.87+6.35%
- Market cap
- $4.24T
- $1.96B
- 1M return
- +6.30%
- -4.18%
- 1Y return
- +67.47%
- -12.04%
- Industry
- Computer Software: Programming Data Processing
- Computer Software: Programming Data Processing
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 2004
- 2011
- News (4w)
- 6
- 5
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 13
Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet Inc. provides online advertising services in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. The company offers performance and brand advertising services. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, such as ads, Android, Chrome, hardware, Google Maps, Google Play, Search, and YouTube, as well as technical infrastructure; and digital content. The Google Cloud segment offers infrastructure and data analytics platforms, collaboration tools, and other services for enterprise customers. The Other Bets segment sells internet and TV services, as well as licensing and research and development services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
VNET Group Inc.
VNET Group, Inc., an investment holding company, provides hosting and related services to Internet companies, government entities, blue-chip enterprises, and small-to mid-sized enterprises in the People's Republic of China. It offers hosting and related services to house servers and networking equipment in its data centers, and connects them through a data transmission network. The company's hosting and related services include managed hosting services that offer data center space to house its customers' servers and networking equipment, and provide tailored server administration services; and interconnectivity services that enable customers to connect their servers with internet backbones and other networks through its border gateway protocol network or single-line, dual-line, or multiple-line network. Its hosting and related services also comprise cloud services that enable businesses to run their applications over the internet using its IT infrastructure; virtual private network services; hybrid IT Services, which provide customers with a complete package of infrastructure service offerings; and other value-added services, such as firewall, server load balancing, data backup and recovery, data center management, server management, and backup server services. In addition, the company provides traffic charts and analysis, gateway monitoring for servers, domain name system setup, defense mechanism against distributed denial of service attacks, basic setting of switches and routers, and virus protections; and managed network service. As of December 31, 2020, it operated 32 self-built data centers housing 49,876 cabinets and 52 partnered data centers housing with 3,677 cabinets. It has a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corporation. The company was formerly known as 21Vianet Group, Inc. and changed its name to VNET Group, Inc. in October 2021. VNET Group, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.
Latest GOOGL
- Director Sergey Brin converted options into 673,200 shares, gifted 673,200 shares and gifted 673,200 units of Class C Capital Stock, increasing direct ownership by 958,452% to 359,159,912 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 8-K filed by Alphabet Inc.
- SEC Form FWP filed by Alphabet Inc.
- Director Hennessy John L. gifted 1,738 units of Class C Capital Stock and received a gift of 1,738 units of Class C Capital Stock, decreasing direct ownership by 100% to 0 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 424B5 filed by Alphabet Inc.
- SEC Form 424B5 filed by Alphabet Inc.
- Director Arnold Frances sold $27,338 worth of Class C Capital Stock (82 units at $333.39) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 0.43% to 18,914 units (SEC Form 4)
- VP, Chief Accounting Officer Saraci Marsida sold $149,607 worth of Class C Capital Stock (449 units at $333.20) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 27,386 units (SEC Form 4)
- VP, Chief Accounting Officer Saraci Marsida covered exercise/tax liability with 492 units of Class C Google Stock Units, was granted 2,016 units of Class C Google Stock Units and converted options into 487 units of Class C Capital Stock, increasing direct ownership by 1,330% to 27,835 units (SEC Form 4) (tax withholding)
- President, Global Affairs, CLO Walker John Kent covered exercise/tax liability with 1,640 units of Class C Google Stock Units and converted options into 1,625 units of Class C Capital Stock, decreasing direct ownership by 85% to 9,768 units (SEC Form 4) to cover taxes
Latest VNET
- SEC Form 6-K filed by VNET Group Inc.
- VNET Reports Unaudited Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
- VNET Announces Strategic Cooperation with CATL
- VNET to Announce Unaudited Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results on August 18, 2026
- Director Chen David Lifeng converted options into 83,544 units of Class A ordinary shares, increasing direct ownership by 20% to 501,252 units (SEC Form 4)
- Deutsche Bank initiated coverage on VNET Group with a new price target
- Director Shao Sean sold $102,798 worth of Class A ordinary shares (60,000 units at $1.71), decreasing direct ownership by 6% to 983,820 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 6-K filed by VNET Group Inc.
- VNET Reports Unaudited First Quarter 2026 Financial Results
- SVP, Operational Finance Zhang Zhihua converted options into 42,996 units of Class A ordinary shares and sold $15,373 worth of Class A ordinary shares (9,072 units at $1.69) (SEC Form 4)