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How Quantral scores GOOG sentiment
Quantral reads the public conversation about Alphabet across finance X, Reddit, Substack, and finance shows on YouTube, then distills it into a single signal score from 0 to 100. It is not a vote count: a hundred low-quality posts can matter less than a handful from voices with a real track record.
The score weighs how much GOOG is being discussed against how strong and credible that discussion is. The sentiment behind it is broken out across positive, negative, and noise, and the people driving it are weighted by their own record, so the loudest take is not automatically the one that moves the number.
The live GOOG score, its sentiment split, and the most recent mentions update continuously in the app. The monthly counts on this page are a dated snapshot of what Quantral tracked, not the live feed.
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Public posts about Alphabet across the sources Quantral reads, since May 2026.
As of 2 November 2026, see the latest feed in the app.
Bullish and bearish views on GOOG
Monthly recaps of the Alphabet chatter we track. In October 2026, 56% of tracked GOOG posts were bullish, 37% bearish.
On r/wallstreetbets, the month started with posts about big GOOG gains and a spike from Anthropic spending on Alphabet, then shifted to Waymo criticism over pricing and a Gemini 3.5 Flash launch that posters called 'dogshit' and triggered put jokes. Despite hitting $410 mid-month, users traded stories of pain from selling covered calls too early.
In June 2026, Alphabet's stock dropped 6% as posters on X blamed Anthropic's growing threat and questioned massive AI spending, with one user noting they “cut loss” because it “just didnt feel good.” On Reddit's r/wallstreetbets, some argued Google could win a “Price War” with its TPU chips while others doubted Gemini's lead, and a few bought the dip calling shares at $385 a bargain.
Alphabet's Q2 earnings in July showed cloud margin expansion and a $10 billion capex hike with a pledge for even more in 2027. On r/wallstreetbets and X, traders called it a long AI buildout catalyst and bought the subsequent dip near $350, though some argued the spending would hurt Google's own stock. A few posters also flagged antitrust risks around the Play Store.
On Reddit and X, Alphabet's Gemini 4.0 launch drew praise for matching top models cheaply, but the stock dropped after a $500B cloud backlog was revealed. Attrition fears and GDM's 15% GCP compute share spooked some, while Morgan Stanley's 35%+ TPU sales hike and an open-sourced TPU library provided a lift.
A 10-bank consortium proposed a $22B loan to Crux AI, an Alphabet and Blackstone venture secured by custom TPUs. On X and Reddit, users highlighted Alphabet's deeper layers in the AI stack while debating search viability. Despite skepticism of Gemini's performance, chatter remained strong.
Cloud unveiled a Gemini Agent, and Anthropic's S-1 was read as key for GOOGL before an earnings dip panicked call holders on r/wallstreetbets. Some blamed Gemini for wrecking search, while Schwab's Tom White flagged a looming 'death cross'. Defenders on X and Reddit insisted Google 'will win, period' and to keep stacking shares.
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| Insider | Title | Trade | 10b5-1 plan | Filed | Shares | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frances Arnold | Director | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Oct 30, 2026 | $23,288 | |
| Frances Arnold | Director | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Oct 2, 2026 | $28,257 | |
| Frances Arnold | Director | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Aug 31, 2026 | $27,692 | |
| Frances Arnold | Director | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Jul 30, 2026 | $27,338 | |
| Marsida Saraci | VP, Chief Accounting Officer | Sold | · 10b5-1 planYes | · Jul 29, 2026 | $149,607 |
| Member | Party | State | Chamber | Trade | Traded | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pete Sessions | R-TX · HouseR | Sold | · Oct 2, 2026 | $100,001 - $250,000 | ||
| Michael Rulli | R-OH · HouseR | Sold | · Oct 16, 2026 | $50,001 - $100,000 | ||
| Rohit Khanna | D-CA · HouseD | Sold part | · Sep 4, 2026 | $1,001 - $15,000 | ||
| Cleo Fields | D-LA · HouseD | Bought | · Sep 14, 2026 | $1,001 - $15,000 | ||
| Pete Sessions | R-TX · HouseR | Sold | · Sep 14, 2026 | $15,001 - $50,000 |
About Alphabet
Alphabet Inc. is the parent of Google, offering internet search, digital advertising, cloud computing, and a range of other products and services. Its widely known brands include YouTube, Google Cloud, and Android.
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The voices behind the GOOG conversation
The tracked accounts posting about Alphabet most since May 2026. Each one carries a public track record in the app, graded on how its past calls played out.
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The app has the live answer: a 0 to 100 GOOG score that updates as new posts come in, built from recent volume, the sentiment behind it, and the credibility of who is posting. In October 2026, 56% of the GOOG posts from the accounts we track were bullish and 37% bearish. The numbers on this page are dated snapshots.
Quantral does not publish a GOOG forecast, price target, or prediction. It measures the Alphabet conversation instead: how much the sources it reads are talking about GOOG, how bullish that talk is, and whether it comes from accounts whose past calls held up. Tracked voices that post their own GOOG forecasts get graded against what the stock did next.
Between May 2026 and October 2026, $GOOG drew 2,498 tracked mentions across the curated finance voices Quantral reads on X, Reddit, and Substack. That total counts only the sources Quantral follows, not the whole internet.
Three inputs: how much Alphabet is being discussed, the sentiment of that discussion, and the track record of the accounts driving it. The sharpest swings come when the tracked voices have something to argue over: an earnings date, a product announcement, a sudden price move.
Quantral reads a curated set of finance voices on X, Reddit, and Substack, plus finance shows on YouTube. It scores every GOOG mention from those sources for sentiment and grades each account or show speaker on how its past calls worked out, so a proven record counts for more than a loud one.
This page holds the dated trail: monthly recaps of the Alphabet conversation and the tracked voices posting about it most. The live GOOG feed is in the app, where Quantral scores each new mention as it lands.
In the last 12 months GOOG insiders filed 225 open-market sales worth $132.2 million and no purchases. All of those sales were pre-planned 10b5-1 sales. These are Form 4 filings with the SEC, open-market trades only: option exercises, grants and gifts are left out.
A 10b5-1 plan is a trading plan an insider sets up in advance, while not holding material nonpublic information, that schedules future trades by date, price or formula. Trades then run on the plan, so a planned sale says less about the insider's current view than a discretionary one. In the last 12 months, 100% of GOOG insider sales were made under one.
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