Compare Stocks: ALGN, GOOG, CFLT, and GDYN

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ALGN Align Technology	$147.31 -1.4%	$154.54	$128.67 ▼ $200.43	$10.55B	1.67	1.06 million shs	952,959 shs
CFLT Confluent	$30.99	$30.75	$15.64 ▼ $31.00	$11.08B	0.95	9.86 million shs	18.39 million shs
GDYN Grid Dynamics	$7.79 -2.7%	$7.86	$5.11 ▼ $10.21	$632.00M	0.97	1.68 million shs	676,468 shs
GOOG Alphabet	$336.91 -2.3%	$341.41	$244.67 ▼ $404.47	$4.12T	1.19	20.27 million shs	16.94 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ALGN Align Technology	+3.39%	+5.89%	+1.59%	-15.51%	+16.28%
CFLT Confluent	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	+36.16%
GDYN Grid Dynamics	+4.43%	0.00%	-1.48%	+38.34%	+3.49%
GOOG Alphabet	+0.37%	+0.01%	+1.02%	-0.35%	+37.03%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ALGN Align Technology	$147.31 -1.4%	$154.54	$128.67 ▼ $200.43	$10.55B	1.67	1.06 million shs	952,959 shs
CFLT Confluent	$30.99	$30.75	$15.64 ▼ $31.00	$11.08B	0.95	9.86 million shs	18.39 million shs
GDYN Grid Dynamics	$7.79 -2.7%	$7.86	$5.11 ▼ $10.21	$632.00M	0.97	1.68 million shs	676,468 shs
GOOG Alphabet	$336.91 -2.3%	$341.41	$244.67 ▼ $404.47	$4.12T	1.19	20.27 million shs	16.94 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ALGN Align Technology	+3.39%	+5.89%	+1.59%	-15.51%	+16.28%
CFLT Confluent	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	+36.16%
GDYN Grid Dynamics	+4.43%	0.00%	-1.48%	+38.34%	+3.49%
GOOG Alphabet	+0.37%	+0.01%	+1.02%	-0.35%	+37.03%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ALGN Align Technology	2.59	Moderate Buy	$194.14	31.79% Upside
CFLT Confluent	2.11	Hold	$29.46	-4.94% Downside
GDYN Grid Dynamics	2.50	Moderate Buy	$9.40	20.67% Upside
GOOG Alphabet	3.05	Buy	$422.10	25.29% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest ALGN, GOOG, CFLT, and GDYN Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
10/15/2026	GOOG Alphabet	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Buy (B)
10/15/2026	ALGN Align Technology	Robert W. Baird Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Neutral	$218.00 ➝ $162.00
10/15/2026	ALGN Align Technology	Robert W. Baird Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Downgrade	Outperform ➝ Hold	$162.00
10/15/2026	GOOG Alphabet	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Boost Price Target	Overweight	$420.00 ➝ $425.00
10/14/2026	ALGN Align Technology	Leerink Partners Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$235.00 ➝ $215.00
10/14/2026	GOOG Alphabet	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Neutral	$379.00 ➝ $380.00
10/9/2026	ALGN Align Technology	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Upgrade	Hold (C-) ➝ Hold (C)
10/9/2026	GOOG Alphabet	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Market Outperform
10/9/2026	ALGN Align Technology	Stifel Nicolaus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Lower Price Target	Buy	$210.00 ➝ $175.00
10/8/2026	GOOG Alphabet	Stifel Nicolaus Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Set Price Target		$485.00
10/8/2026	GOOG Alphabet	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access to unlock brokerage rankings	Reiterated Rating	Buy	$475.00 ➝ $485.00

(Data available from 10/16/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ALGN Align Technology	$4.03B	2.61	$12.10 per share	12.17	$56.43 per share	2.61
CFLT Confluent	$1.17B	9.50	N/A	N/A	$3.27 per share	9.48
GDYN Grid Dynamics	$411.83M	1.53	$0.41 per share	18.80	$6.39 per share	1.22
GOOG Alphabet	$402.84B	10.23	$12.42 per share	27.12	$34.33 per share	9.81

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ALGN Align Technology	$410.35M	$5.75	25.62	14.16	1.54	9.99%	15.86%	10.32%	10/28/2026 (Estimated)
CFLT Confluent	-$295.27M	-$0.86	N/A	N/A	N/A	-25.31%	-22.66%	-8.72%	N/A
GDYN Grid Dynamics	$9.67M	$0.02	389.69	38.95	N/A	0.68%	1.90%	1.66%	10/29/2026 (Estimated)
GOOG Alphabet	$132.17B	$19.91	16.92	22.63	1.00	54.77%	51.32%	35.42%	10/28/2026 (Estimated)

Latest ALGN, GOOG, CFLT, and GDYN Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
10/29/2026	Q3 2026	GDYN Grid Dynamics	$0.1250	N/A	N/A	N/A	$112.77 million	N/A
10/28/2026	Q3 2026	ALGN Align Technology	$2.78	N/A	N/A	N/A	$1.01 billion	N/A
10/28/2026	Q3 2026	GOOG Alphabet	$3.02	N/A	N/A	N/A	$127.67 billion	N/A
7/30/2026	Q2 2026	GDYN Grid Dynamics	$0.1050	$0.11	+$0.0050	$0.03	$106.55 million	$108.16 million
7/29/2026	Q2 2026	ALGN Align Technology	$2.62	$2.64	+$0.02	$1.51	$1.05 billion	$1.06 billion
7/23/2026	Q2 2026	GOOG Alphabet	$2.87	$9.11	+$6.24	$9.11	$116.53 billion	$119.80 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ALGN Align Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
CFLT Confluent	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
GDYN Grid Dynamics	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
GOOG Alphabet	$0.88	0.26%	N/A	4.42%	1 Years

Latest ALGN, GOOG, CFLT, and GDYN Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/22/2026	GOOG Alphabet	quarterly	$0.22	0.26%	9/4/2026	9/7/2026	9/14/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ALGN Align Technology	N/A	1.40	1.28
CFLT Confluent	0.94	3.83	3.83
GDYN Grid Dynamics	N/A	7.22	7.22
GOOG Alphabet	0.16	2.72	2.64

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ALGN Align Technology	88.43%
CFLT Confluent	78.09%
GDYN Grid Dynamics	71.18%
GOOG Alphabet	27.26%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ALGN Align Technology	0.75%
CFLT Confluent	9.20%
GDYN Grid Dynamics	6.50%
GOOG Alphabet	12.99%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ALGN Align Technology	20,290	71.62 million	71.08 million	Optionable
CFLT Confluent	3,241	357.65 million	324.74 million	Optionable
GDYN Grid Dynamics	4,961	81.13 million	75.85 million	Optionable
GOOG Alphabet	198,933	12.23 billion	10.64 billion	Optionable

ALGN, GOOG, CFLT, and GDYN Headlines

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ALGN, GOOG, CFLT, and GDYN Company Descriptions

Align Technology NASDAQ:ALGN

$147.31 -2.03 (-1.36%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

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$147.40 +0.09 (+0.06%)

As of 06:23 PM Eastern

Align Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets Invisalign clear aligners, and iTero intraoral scanners and services for orthodontists and general practitioner dentists in the United States, Switzerland, and internationally. The company's Clear Aligner segment offers comprehensive products, including Invisalign comprehensive package that addresses the orthodontic needs of younger patients, such as mandibular advancement, compliance indicators, and compensation for tooth eruption; and Invisalign First Phase I and Invisalign First Comprehensive Phase 2 package for younger patients generally between the ages of six and ten years, which is a mixture of primary/baby and permanent teeth. The segment also provides Invisalign moderate, lite and express packages, and Invisalign go and Invisalign Go Plus; retention products, Invisalign training, and adjusting tools used by dental professionals during the course of treatment; and Invisalign Palatal Expander, a 3D printed orthodontic device; and 3D printing solutions. Its Imaging Systems and CAD/CAM Services segment offers iTero intraoral scanning system, a single hardware platform for restorative or orthodontic procedures; restorative software for general practitioner dentists, prosthodontists, periodontists, and oral surgeons; and orthodontists software for digital records storage, orthodontic diagnosis, and fabrication of printed models and retainers. This segment also provides Invisalign outcome simulator, a chair-side and cloud-based application for the iTero scanner; Invisalign progress assessment tool; Align Oral Health Suite, a digital interface designed to enhance dental consultations; and TimeLapse technology, which allows doctors or practitioners to compare a patient's historic 3D scans to the present-day scan, as well as subscription software, disposables, rentals, leases, pay per scan, and CAD/CAM software solutions. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.

Confluent NASDAQ:CFLT

Confluent, Inc. operates a data streaming platform in the United States and internationally. The company provides platforms that allow customers to connect their applications, systems, and data layers, such as Confluent Cloud, a managed cloud-native software-as-a-service; and Confluent Platform, an enterprise-grade self-managed software. It offers connectors for existing applications, and IT and cloud infrastructure; Apache Flink services that allows teams to create reusable data streams that can be delivered real-time; ksqlDB, a data-in-motion database that allows users to build data-in-motion applications using a few SQL statements; stream governance, a managed data governance suite that is designed for the intricacies of streaming data, which allows teams to accelerate data streaming initiatives without bypassing controls for risk management and regulatory compliance; and stream designer which builds streaming data pipelines visually. In addition, the company offers professional services comprising packaged and residency offerings; education offerings consisting of instructor-led and self-paced training and certification guidance, technical resources, and access to hands-on training and certification exams; and certification programs. It serves banking and financial services industries, as well as retail and e-commerce, manufacturing, automotive, communication service providers, gaming, public sector, insurance, and technology industries. The company was formerly known as Infinitem, Inc. and changed its name to Confluent, Inc. in September 2014. Confluent, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Grid Dynamics NASDAQ:GDYN

$7.79 -0.22 (-2.75%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$7.79 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 06:21 PM Eastern

Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides technology consulting, platform and product engineering, and analytics services in North America, Europe, and internationally. It offers cloud platform and product engineering services, such as architecting, designing, and building scalable and secure cloud-based platforms and business applications; and AI/machine learning and data platform engineering services that build platforms to facilitate batch and streaming data ingestion, quality governance, orchestration, semantic modeling, observability, and analysis at scale. The company provides digital engagement services, including digital ecosystem design and implementation; and supply chain, Internet of Thing, and advanced manufacturing, which focuses on transforming traditional operations into smart and connected ecosystems. It serves customers that operate in the tech, media, telecommunications, retail, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, and finance industries. The company was formerly known as ChaSerg Technology Acquisition Corp. and changed its name to Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Ramon, California.

Alphabet NASDAQ:GOOG

$336.91 -8.00 (-2.32%)

Closing price 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$335.66 -1.25 (-0.37%)

As of 06:39 PM Eastern

Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment provides products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, devices, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. It is also involved in the sale of apps and in-app purchases and digital content in the Google Play and YouTube; and devices, as well as in the provision of YouTube consumer subscription services. The Google Cloud segment offers infrastructure, cybersecurity, databases, analytics, AI, and other services; Google Workspace that include cloud-based communication and collaboration tools for enterprises, such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, and Meet; and other services for enterprise customers. The Other Bets segment sells healthcare-related and internet services. The company was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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