FilingsForm 4

The Arete Trust sold 17,816 Alphabet shares for $4.41 million on Sep 29, 2025

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Published Oct 28, 2026 · 09:09 UTCFiled Oct 1, 2025

Value$4.41 million, held indirectly

Shares17,816, held indirectly

Average price$247.42

FiledOct 1

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The Arete Trust sold 17,816 shares of Alphabet Class C capital stock on Sep 29, 2025, at an average of $247.42 a share, for $4.41 million. The Form 4, the form an insider files after trading the company's shares, names John Kent Walker, an officer (President, Global Affairs, CLO), as the reporting person and lists him and Diana Ruth Walsh as the trust's trustees. It says the transaction it reports was made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan that Walker adopted as trustee of The Arete Trust on May 5, 2025. The form is on the SEC's EDGAR database, filed Oct 1, 2025.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

How each figure was checked12 facts

Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: holding9 sale lines held indirectly (By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees)Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: sidesaleOur database
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: shares17,816Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: average price$247.42Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: value$4.41 millionOur database
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: first dateSep 29, 2025Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: shares afterafter the last sale line the form states 42985 shares of Class C Capital Stock held indirectly (By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees)Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: ownerJohn Kent WalkerOur database
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: relationshipofficer (President, Global Affairs, CLO)Our database
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: 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: "Transaction reported in this Form 4 was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan adopted by the Reporting Person as Trustee of The Arete Trust on May 5, 2025."Our database
Remarks of the Form 4 filed Oct 1, 2025 (they speak for the form as a whole, not for a line)May 5, 2025SEC EDGAR, footnotes of the Form 4 ↗
Alphabet Form 4 0001193125-25-227254: filed onOct 1, 2025Our database

The record

Issuer: Alphabet (CIK 1652044, filed as Alphabet Inc.)
Form: 4
Accession: 0001193125-25-227254
Filed: Oct 1, 2025
Period of report: Sep 29, 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) · 2,900 Class C Capital Stock at $243.90 · Sep 29, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 57,901 held after · footnote F1
Line 2: S (sale) · 1,385 Class C Capital Stock at $244.67 · Sep 29, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 56,516 held after · footnote F2
Line 3: S (sale) · 2,500 Class C Capital Stock at $245.70 · Sep 29, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 54,016 held after · footnote F3
Line 4: S (sale) · 400 Class C Capital Stock at $246.56 · Sep 29, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 53,616 held after · footnote F4
Line 5: S (sale) · 2,000 Class C Capital Stock at $248.09 · Sep 29, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 51,616 held after · footnote F5
Line 6: S (sale) · 4,731 Class C Capital Stock at $248.63 · Sep 29, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 46,885 held after · footnote F6
Line 7: S (sale) · 1,900 Class C Capital Stock at $249.86 · Sep 29, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 44,985 held after · footnote F7
Line 8: S (sale) · 1,800 Class C Capital Stock at $250.89 · Sep 29, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 43,185 held after · footnote F8
Line 9: S (sale) · 200 Class C Capital Stock at $251.43 · Sep 29, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 42,985 held after · footnote F9
Footnote F1: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $243.23 to $244.23, inclusive. The Reporting Person undertakes to provide to any security holder of Alphabet Inc. or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the ranges set forth in footnotes (1) through (9) to this Form 4.
Footnote F2: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $244.23 to $245.23 inclusive.
Footnote F3: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $245.24 to $246.24 inclusive.
Footnote F4: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $246.28 to $247.28 inclusive.
Footnote F5: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $247.33 to $248.33 inclusive.
Footnote F6: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $248.35 to $249.35 inclusive.
Footnote F7: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $249.36 to $250.36 inclusive.
Footnote F8: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $250.40 to $251.40 inclusive.
Footnote F9: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $251.41 to $252.41 inclusive.
Footnote F10: 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 F11: 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 F12: 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: Transaction reported in this Form 4 was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan adopted by the Reporting Person as Trustee of The Arete Trust on May 5, 2025.