Best AI Stocks to Buy: Alphabet Stock vs. Meta Platforms Stock

By Parkev Tatevosian, CFA – Oct 18, 2025 at 7:00AM

NASDAQ: GOOG

Alphabet

Market Cap

$3.1T

Today's Change

(1.29%) $3.27

Current Price

$257.06

Price as of October 20, 2025, 3:58 p.m. ET

These are excellent companies, but only one can be the better investment in this comparison.

Meta Platforms (META 2.12%) and Alphabet (GOOG 1.29%) (GOOGL 1.24%) are two of the largest tech stocks in the world today.

*Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of Oct. 14, 2025. The video was published on Oct. 16, 2025.

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A Fool since 2019, and a graduate of Cal State LA with a B.S. in Finance and M.A. in Economics. Parkev is an adjunct professor of Finance and enjoys reading about financial and economic history. You'll often find him writing about stocks in the consumer goods and technology sectors.

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