Alphabet Share Price (NASDAQ: GOOGL)

It is very easy for Indian residents to invest directly in Alphabet from India. Indian investors can open a free US stocks account on the INDmoney app. You can find live prices of the Alphabet stock in both Indian Rupees (INR) and US Dollars (USD). Search for Alphabet or GOOGL on the INDmoney app and click on Buy or SIP. You can invest by choosing quantities of shares of Alphabet or rupee/ dollar value or set up a fixed SIP amount to be invested every month or week.

For example: You can easily buy Rs.100 worth of Alphabet shares which would translate to 0.005 fractional shares of Alphabet as of today. Learn more about fractional investing.

Alphabet (Class A) Google's share price today stands at $191.96, Open. $195.76 ; Previous Close. $196.53 ; High. $194.37 ; Low. $191.17 ; 52 Week High. $207.05 ; 52 Week Low: $140.53

The stock opens at $195.76, after a previous close of $196.53. The stock reached a daily high of $194.37 and a low of $191.17, with a 52-week high of $207.05 and a 52-week low of $140.53.

You can buy Google shares starting ₹87.588 or $1 as on 1 Aug 2025​​ on the INDmoney app.

Indian investors can buy Google shares in fractions or a part of the whole stock value instead of the entire stock. In simple terms, you can even buy 0.1 or any fraction of Google stock units. 

Let us understand this better with an example, if you have $10 or ₹875.88 to invest and the cost of Google stock is $200 or ₹17,106, you can still invest your $10 or ₹875.88 and get 10/200 that is 0.05 units of the Google stock in your account.

Another way to understand this is, if 1 Google stock costs $191.24 or ₹16,356.76, you can buy Google stock worth $250 or ₹21,382.50 which will give you 250/191.24 units which means you will get 1.31 Google shares.
 

An investor investing in US stocks from India not only benefits from stock or capital returns but also gets the benefit of dollar appreciation versus rupees.

If an Indian resident would have invested in Google from India, 5 years ago then the total returns (including dollar appreciation) from Google stock would be 240%. The annualised return would be 28%.

To understand this in simple terms, capital appreciation in the last 5 years from Google stocks would be 185.52%.
On top of this, the investors will enjoy the gains from appreciation in dollar value versus rupees which would be 19.26%. The calculation is for the last 5 years.

Hence, investing in US stocks from the US will only give an investor capital gains, but an Indian investor will enjoy additional gains from dollar appreciation.

Google stock has given 240% returns in the last 5 years, whereas Apple stock has given 313%. $100 invested in Google stock 5 years ago would have become $340 and $100 invested in Apple stock would have become $413.

5 year returns of Google → 240% (Capital Appreciation 185.52% & Dollar Appreciation 19.26%)
5 year returns of Apple → 313% (Capital Appreciation 246.05% & Dollar Appreciation 19.26%)

Indians are interested in Alphabet stock because its products are central to how India uses the internet. Google Search has over 800 million users in India meaning 1 in every 2 Indians uses it for their internet search. 

YouTube reaches 462 million users monthly in India meaning 1 in every 3 Indians use YouTube daily to consume content. Android powers more than 96% of smartphones, and Gmail is used by around 1 in every 11 Indians.

India is also a major driver of Gemini AI’s global scale, contributing to its 450+ million monthly users. With a market cap of more than $2 trillion and operations in over 150 countries, Alphabet’s unmatched reach across India’s digital ecosystem makes it a strong global stock for Indians to look at from an investment point of view.