Google CEO Sundar Pichai has sold a portion of his shares in parent company Alphabet. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Pichai offloaded 30,521 shares of Class C Capital Stock on January 21, 2026. The share sale was executed at prices ranging from $320.35 to $331.97, resulting in a total transaction value of $10,637,367. Post the latest transaction, Sundar Pichai now owns 2,211,872 shares of Class C Capital Stock and 227,560 shares of Class A Common Stock.
Sundar Pichai sells shares under this rule
As listed in SEC’s form 4, the shares were sold under a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan that he adopted on December 2, 2024. “All transactions reported in this Form 4 were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan adopted by the Reporting Person on December 2, 2024,” the filing says.
The shares sell come ahead of the company’s announcement of its Q4 earnings.
Google stock wraps best year since 2009
Google closed 2025 with its strongest performance since 2009 when its shares rose by around 93%. In 2025 alone, the company’s shares jumped 65%. The surge was mainly driven by Google’s rise in AI. Last year, the company released multiple Gemini models with the latest iteration – Gemini 3 debuting in November. In 2025, the company also unveiled Ironwood, the seventh generation of its AI chips amid growing competition with Nvidia.
Earlier this month, Google -parent company Alphabet briefly crossed the historic $4 trillion market valuation, joining an elite club of tech titans that includes Nvidia, Apple and Microsoft. According to a report by news agency Reuters, Class-A shares rose as much as 1.7% to hit a record high of $334.04.
The tech giant has also announced a partnership with Apple to use Google Gemini for the foundation of its AI models and the next generation of Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant and chatbot. Following the announcement, Alphabet’s stock grew by 1.3% to just over $337 billion on Tuesday, January 13.
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