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Should You Forget Alphabet and Buy These 2 Tech Stocks Instead?
Microsoft and Oracle face fewer headwinds than Google's parent company.
Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), the parent company of Google, was once considered an evergreen play on the online search, digital advertising, and cloud markets. However, its stock has declined about 17% this year as the S&P 500 dipped just 1%.
Alphabet has been grappling with tough macro, competitive, and regulatory headwinds.
The weak macro environment is throttling its ad sales, its core search engine faces fierce competition from OpenAI's ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms, and the U.S. Department of Justice is pressing Alphabet to sell Chrome and share its valuable search data with its competitors. It's also struggling to keep up with competitors in the cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI) markets.
