FilingsForm 4

Arete Trust, of which Alphabet officer John Kent Walker is a trustee, sold $5.61 million of shares on Dec 30, 2025

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Published Oct 28, 2026 · 09:12 UTCFiled Dec 30, 2025

Value$5.61 million, held indirectly

Shares17,829, held indirectly

Average price$314.89

FiledDec 30

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model, from public records. Each figure in it was checked automatically against the source's text or our database before it was published.

Alphabet officer John Kent Walker (President, Global Affairs, CLO) reported in a Form 4, the form an insider files when trading the company's shares, that the Arete Trust sold 17,829 shares for $5.61 million on Dec 30, 2025. The form lists the holder as the Arete Trust, with John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh as trustees, and the average price was $314.89 a share. The sale was made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan that the reporting person adopted as trustee of The Arete Trust on May 5, 2025, according to the form's remarks. The source is the Form 4 filed with the SEC on Dec 30, 2025, which states 42,972 shares of Class C Capital Stock held indirectly by the trust after the last sale line.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

How each figure was checked11 facts

the reporting owner, as the form is signedJohn Kent Walker (filed as WALKER JOHN KENT)Our database
the reporting owner's roleofficer (President, Global Affairs, CLO)Our database
shares sold (the whole of the sale side)17,829Our database
value of the sale side$5.61 millionOur database
first date of the sale linesDec 30, 2025Our database
last date of the sale linesDec 30, 2025Our database
how the shares sold were held3 sale lines held indirectly (By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees)Our database
average price of the shares sold$314.89Our database
the Rule 10b5-1 box and the form's remarksticked: 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 as Trustee of The Arete Trust on May 5, 2025."Our database
the day the Form 4 was filedDec 30, 2025Our database
the shares the form states after the last sale lineafter the last sale line the form states 42972 shares of Class C Capital Stock held indirectly (By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees)Our database

The record

Issuer: Alphabet (CIK 1652044, filed as Alphabet Inc.)
Form: 4
Accession: 0001193125-25-337462
Filed: Dec 30, 2025
Period of report: Dec 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) · 11,239 Class C Capital Stock at $314.61 · Dec 30, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 49,562 held after · footnote F1
Line 2: S (sale) · 6,090 Class C Capital Stock at $315.26 · Dec 30, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 43,472 held after · footnote F2
Line 3: S (sale) · 500 Class C Capital Stock at $316.52 · Dec 30, 2025 · disposed, indirectly, By Arete Trust, John Kent Walker and Diana Ruth Walsh, Trustees · 42,972 held after · footnote F3
Line 4: C (conversion of a derivative security) · 7,064 Class C Google Stock Units at $0.00 · Dec 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 7,143 held after · footnotes F4 and F5
Line 5: F (payment of an exercise price or tax in shares) · 7,143 Class C Google Stock Units at $315.67 · Dec 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 0 held after · footnotes F5 and F6
Line 6: C (conversion of a derivative security) · 4,733 Class C Google Stock Units at $0.00 · Dec 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 42,863 held after · footnotes F4 and F7
Line 7: F (payment of an exercise price or tax in shares) · 4,786 Class C Google Stock Units at $315.67 · Dec 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 38,077 held after · footnotes F6 and F7
Line 8: C (conversion of a derivative security) · 6,034 Class C Google Stock Units at $0.00 · Dec 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 74,421 held after · footnotes F4 and F8
Line 9: F (payment of an exercise price or tax in shares) · 6,102 Class C Google Stock Units at $315.67 · Dec 25, 2025 · disposed, directly · 68,319 held after · footnotes F6 and F8
Line 10: C (conversion of a derivative security) · 17,831 Class C Capital Stock at $0.00 · Dec 25, 2025 · acquired, directly · 41,335 held after · footnote F4
Footnote F1: The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $313.93 to $314.93, 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 (3) 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 $314.95 to $315.95 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 $316.06 to $317.06 inclusive.
Footnote F4: Vesting of GSUs grant of which was previously reported in Form 4.
Footnote F5: 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 F6: Shares withheld to satisfy tax obligations arising out of vesting of GSUs.
Footnote F7: 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 F8: 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 as Trustee of The Arete Trust on May 5, 2025.