FilingsForm 4

A trust of which Alphabet officer John Kent Walker was a trustee sold $1.96 million of Class C stock on Mar 27, 2025

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Published Oct 28, 2026 · 11:10 UTCFiled Mar 27, 2025

Value$1.96 million, held indirectly

Shares11,764, held indirectly

Average price$166.8395

FiledMar 27

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Arete Trust, of which John Kent Walker, Alphabet's president of global affairs and chief legal officer, was a trustee, sold 11,764 Class C shares on Mar 27, 2025, at an average of $166.84 a share, for $1.96 million. The Form 4, the form an insider files when trading the company's shares, says the sale transaction was made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, a schedule set in advance, adopted on May 29, 2024. The form states 49,037 Class C shares held by the trust after the sale. The form was filed Mar 27, 2025 and is on the SEC's EDGAR database.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

How each figure was checked10 facts

Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: ownerJohn Kent Walker (filed as WALKER JOHN KENT)Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: relationshipofficer (President, Global Affairs, CLO)Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: holding1 sale line held indirectly (By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees)Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: shares11,764Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: average price$166.84Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: value$1.96 millionOur database
Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: first dateMar 27, 2025Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: shares afterafter the last sale line the form states 49037 shares of Class C Capital Stock held indirectly (By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees)Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: rule 10b5 1ticked: the filing marks a transaction on the form as made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan; the box is one answer for the whole form. The form's remarks say: "Sale transaction reported in this Form 4 was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan adopted by the Reporting Person on May 29, 2024."Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0000950170-25-046216: filed onMar 27, 2025Our database

The record

Issuer: Alphabet (CIK 1652044, filed as Alphabet Inc.)
Form: 4
Accession: 0000950170-25-046216
Filed: Mar 27, 2025
Period of report: Mar 25, 2025
Reporting owner: John Kent Walker (CIK 1238734, filed as WALKER JOHN KENT)
Relationship: officer (President, Global Affairs, CLO)
Rule 10b5-1 checkbox: Ticked
Line 1: S (sale) · 11,764 Class C Capital Stock at $166.8395 · Mar 27, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 49,037 held after
Line 2: C (conversion of a derivative security) · 17,782 Class C Capital Stock at $0.00 · Mar 25, 2025 · acquired, directly · 41,283 held after · footnote F1
Line 3: C (conversion of a derivative security) · 7,045 Class C Google Stock Units at $0.00 · Mar 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 49,632 held after · footnotes F1 and F2
Line 4: F (payment of an exercise price or tax in shares) · 7,124 Class C Google Stock Units at $169.93 · Mar 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 42,508 held after · footnotes F2 and F3
Line 5: C (conversion of a derivative security) · 4,720 Class C Google Stock Units at $0.00 · Mar 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 71,228 held after · footnotes F1 and F4
Line 6: F (payment of an exercise price or tax in shares) · 4,773 Class C Google Stock Units at $0.00 · Mar 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 66,455 held after · footnotes F3 and F4
Line 7: F (payment of an exercise price or tax in shares) · 6,085 Class C Google Stock Units at $169.93 · Mar 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 110,462 held after · footnotes F3 and F5
Line 8: C (conversion of a derivative security) · 6,017 Class C Google Stock Units at $0.00 · Mar 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 104,444 held after · footnotes F1 and F5
Footnote F1: Vesting of Google Stock Units ("GSUs") grant of which was previously reported in Form 4.
Footnote F2: Class C Google Stock Units (GSUs) entitle the Reporting Person to receive one share of Alphabet Inc. Class C capital stock for each share underlying the GSUs as each GSU vests. 1/6th of the GSUs vested on June 25, 2023 and an additional 1/12th of the GSUs vests quarterly thereafter until the GSUs are fully vested, subject to continuing employment on the applicable vesting dates.
Footnote F3: Shares withheld to satisfy tax obligations arising out of vesting of GSUs.
Footnote F4: 1/6th of the GSUs vested on June 25, 2024; 1/12th of the GSUs vested on September 25, 2024, and an additional 1/12th of the GSUs vests quarterly thereafter on the 25th day of the month until the GSUs are fully vested, subject to continued employment on the applicable vesting dates.
Footnote F5: The GSUs vest as follows: (i) 27/260th of the grant will vest on each March 25, 2025, June 25, 2025, September 25, 2025 and December 25, 2025; and (ii) 19/260th of the grant will vest quarterly on the 25th day of the month from March 25, 2026 through December 25, 2026, and on the 1st day of the month from April 1, 2027 through January 1, 2028, subject to continued employment on the applicable vesting dates.
Remarks: Sale transaction reported in this Form 4 was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan adopted by the Reporting Person on May 29, 2024.