Waymo stock: you buy it as Alphabet (GOOGL), where Waymo is valued at $126 billion
By Maya Koeva · October 26, 2026 · 10 min read
Waymo stock is Alphabet stock. Waymo is a private company, and the way to own it on a stock exchange is through Alphabet, its majority owner, which trades on the Nasdaq as GOOGL (Class A) and GOOG (Class C). GOOGL closed at $320.21 on October 23.
Among the accounts we track, Waymo is a side note in the Alphabet story: it came up in 29 of 2,099 Alphabet mentions this year. The call that mattered was on Alphabet itself: the accounts with a real track record stayed bullish through a 20% slide in February and March, and GOOGL went on to its record close in May.
What is the Waymo stock symbol?
The symbols to look up are GOOGL and GOOG, Alphabet's two traded share classes. Waymo has no ticker of its own because its shares are not listed anywhere.
| Share class | Ticker | Votes per share | Where it trades |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet Class A | GOOGL | 1 | Nasdaq |
| Alphabet Class C | GOOG | None | Nasdaq |
| Alphabet Class B | None | 10 | Not traded, held mostly by the founders and insiders |
Both traded classes own the same company, Waymo included, and their prices move almost in step. GOOGL closed at $320.21 on October 23 and GOOG at $317.28. For a small holder the vote counts for little, so either class gives you the same piece of Waymo. If you hold a Nasdaq-100 fund such as QQQM, you already own both: our QQQM guide shows Alphabet as the fund's fourth-largest company.
Is Waymo public, and will it IPO?
No, Waymo is not public. It started as Google's self-driving car project and became a separate company under Alphabet in December 2016. It has raised money from outside investors several times since, always privately.
Neither Waymo nor Alphabet has announced an IPO or a spin-off. When Waymo raised money in February, the Associated Press noted that the new valuation could feed the recurring talk of an eventual IPO. Neither company has turned that talk into a plan: there is no filing, no date and no price. If you searched for a Waymo IPO date or a pre-IPO price, there is none to find.
SpaceX owns two businesses in the same position. Starlink and xAI have no stock of their own, and you own them through SpaceX: our Starlink stock page and our xAI stock page cover those two.
Who owns Waymo?
Alphabet does, as its majority investor. Alphabet has not published its exact percentage. The rest belongs to outside investors who bought in through private funding rounds. The February 2026 round alone brought in:
- Leads: Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global and Sequoia Capital.
- Also investing: Andreessen Horowitz, Mubadala Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price.
- Further investors: BDT & MSD Partners, CapitalG, Fidelity, GV, Kleiner Perkins, Perry Creek Capital and Temasek.
Alphabet put money into that round too. Bloomberg reported Alphabet's share at $13 billion of the $16 billion; Waymo confirmed its parent took part but did not give terms. You can't buy any of these stakes on an exchange, so for you the only door in is Alphabet.
Waymo's valuation and funding
| Round | Raised | Valuation |
|---|---|---|
| October 2024 | $5.6 billion | About $45 billion |
| February 2026 | $16 billion | $126 billion |
The February round nearly tripled Waymo's value in less than two years, according to Reuters. In the same announcement, Waymo said it gave 15 million rides in 2025, triple the year before, and was giving 400,000 rides a week across six US metro areas.
The investors in one private round set that $126 billion price. You can't trade at it, and it covers a small piece of what you pay for when you buy Alphabet.
How big Waymo is inside Alphabet
Alphabet doesn't report Waymo on its own. Waymo sits inside Other Bets, the segment for Alphabet's newer businesses. From Alphabet's latest quarterly filing, for the second quarter of 2026:
| Q2 2026 | Other Bets | Alphabet total |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $382 million | $119.8 billion |
| Operating income (loss) | About $(1.8) billion | $40.8 billion |
Other Bets brought in about 0.3% of Alphabet's revenue and lost money, as it did in the first quarter. Its loss grew by $553 million from a year earlier, which the filing puts down mostly to higher employee pay. Google Search, YouTube and Google Cloud earn the money that pays for it.
A share of Alphabet today buys you mostly search, cloud and AI, with Waymo as a small extra. Alphabet's third-quarter report will update these figures.
Waymo stock price and chart
Waymo has no share price, so the price to watch is Alphabet's. GOOGL closed at $320.21 on October 23, compared with:
| Compared with | GOOGL close | GOOGL since |
|---|---|---|
| 1 week ago (October 16) | $340.59 | 6.0% |
| 1 month ago (September 23) | $337.83 | 5.2% |
| Start of 2026 (December 31 close) | $313.00 | 2.3% |
| 1 year ago (October 23, 2025) | $253.08 | 26.5% |
| 2026 low close (March 30) | $273.50 | 17.1% |
| All-time high close (May 13) | $402.62 | 20.5% |
Over the year, GOOGL is up about a quarter. Inside 2026 it went through a full round trip: down to $273.50 by March 30, up to a record $402.62 on May 13, and back near where it started the year.
How to buy Waymo stock
Buying Waymo means buying Alphabet, the same way you buy any US stock:
- Open or log in to a brokerage account that offers US stocks.
- Search for GOOGL (Class A, with votes) or GOOG (Class C, no votes).
- Pick a number of shares, or a dollar amount if your broker sells fractional shares.
- Place a market order (fills now) or a limit order (fills only at your price or better).
Outside the US, you need a broker with access to US exchanges. If you would rather hold Alphabet as part of a basket, any Nasdaq-100 or S&P 500 index fund owns it. If you are new to placing orders, start with how to invest in stocks.
Public robotaxi stocks
These listed companies compete with Waymo or work with it. None of them owns it.
- Tesla (TSLA) runs its own robotaxi service and sells cars, batteries and energy storage.
- Uber (UBER) offers Waymo rides through its app in some cities, as a partner rather than an owner.
- Amazon (AMZN) owns Zoox, which builds its own robotaxi.
- Pony.ai (PONY) and WeRide (WRD) run robotaxi services in China and trade on the Nasdaq.
What the accounts we track say about Alphabet
Quantral scores Alphabet by what the accounts with a real track record say about it. As of the morning of October 26, Alphabet carried a 7-day score of 59, on the positive side. From October 1 to 25, the accounts with a graded track record ran 28 bullish calls to 6 bearish.
Waymo is a small part of that conversation. Of 2,099 Alphabet mentions from January 1 to October 25, 29 brought up Waymo, and 22 of those were bullish. Waymo came up about as often in posts about Uber, 30 times. The graded accounts that did mention it treated it as an extra. Kaizen_Investor, who ranks in our top 20 by track record, listed "Waymo leading the AV race" on September 30 among their reasons to own Alphabet, next to Gemini and YouTube. TheValueist, in our top 10, read Tesla's October 21 call as more competition for Waymo but small for Alphabet's earnings in the near term. Both views match the filing, where the segment that holds Waymo is about 0.3% of revenue.
Their bigger call was on Alphabet itself. In February they posted 17 bullish calls on Alphabet and no bearish ones, while GOOGL fell 7.8% in the month. The slide kept going: by March 30 GOOGL was down 20.4% from its February 2 close. Through February and March those accounts still ran 20 bullish calls to 1 bearish. GOOGL then rose 40.7% from the March 30 low to the April 30 close, above every February close, and set its record two weeks later. The dated snapshot sits on our Alphabet stock page.
Common questions
What is the Waymo stock symbol?
Waymo has no symbol of its own. It is owned by Alphabet, which trades on the Nasdaq as GOOGL (Class A) and GOOG (Class C).
What is the Waymo stock ticker?
The tickers to use are GOOGL and GOOG, Alphabet's two traded share classes. Waymo itself is private and has no ticker.
What is the Waymo stock price?
Waymo has no share price. Alphabet (GOOGL), its majority owner, closed at $320.21 on October 23, 2026. In its February 2026 funding round, Waymo was valued at $126 billion.
Is Waymo publicly traded?
No. Waymo is a private company majority-owned by Alphabet. You can own it on an exchange only through Alphabet's shares.
Can I buy Waymo stock?
Not directly. Buy Alphabet (GOOGL or GOOG) through any brokerage that offers US stocks, or a Nasdaq-100 or S&P 500 fund that holds Alphabet.
Will Waymo have an IPO?
Neither Waymo nor Alphabet has announced one. There is no IPO date and no IPO price.
Who owns Waymo?
Alphabet is the majority owner. Outside investors from its private rounds, including Sequoia Capital, DST Global, Dragoneer, Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake and T. Rowe Price, hold the rest.
Is Waymo stock a good buy?
We don't give buy or sell advice. What we can show you is how the accounts with the best track records read Alphabet: a 7-day score of 59 as of October 26, after they stayed bullish through the February and March slide.
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Prices are GOOGL closing prices from the Yahoo chart API through October 23, 2026. Funding and segment figures are from the sources noted below. Mentions count posts about Alphabet from the accounts we track, January 1 to October 25, 2026, by US Eastern day; the 7-day score is from the morning of October 26.
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