Alphabet Owns 8.9 Million Shares of This Hot Space Stock. Is It a Buy?

Many investors whitethorn cognize Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) arsenic the genitor institution of Google, YouTube, and its artificial quality (AI) model, Gemini. But the institution besides has an concern limb that invests successful high-growth companies crossed AI, healthcare, infrastructure, and adjacent space.

The exertion elephantine has a portfolio of 29 stocks, according to its astir caller 13F filing, and the abstraction institution AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) tops the database arsenic its largest nationalist banal investment, with 8.9 cardinal shares worthy $903 cardinal arsenic of this writing. Here's what investors request to cognize astir the outer institution and Alphabet's concern successful it.

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AST SpaceMobile is an early-stage outer institution that has moved past probe and improvement and into commercialized operations. The institution is processing a planetary cellular-broadband web successful debased Earth orbit to supply high-speed connectivity to modular mobile devices.

Alphabet archetypal invested successful AST SpaceMobile done convertible notes successful aboriginal 2024. Alphabet, on with AT&T and Vodafone, was an aboriginal capitalist successful these convertible notes, which were convertible into communal banal astatine $5.75 per share.

As portion of the agreement, AST SpaceMobile could unit conversion if the banal terms traded astatine 130% supra the conversion terms for 30 days, which it did successful aboriginal 2025. As a result, the institution told shareholders, including Alphabet, that it would person these notes into astir 26 cardinal shares. Alphabet's information of this represented the 8.9 cardinal shares that it continues to clasp today.

In caller years, the institution has secured large commercialized and authorities contracts with 50 mobile operators that service 3 cardinal subscribers worldwide. It has besides secured contracts with the U.S. government, including a $43 cardinal declaration to enactment the Space Development Agency (SDA) and a $20 cardinal declaration with the Defense Innovation Unit done a premier contractor to enactment communications implicit land, sea, and air.

AST SpaceMobile has done a bully occupation securing large deals with communications providers and the U.S. government. Next up for the outer relation volition beryllium deploying its outer constellation to alteration continuous sum crossed cardinal markets successful the U.S., Europe, and Japan. To execute this, the institution aims to person betwixt 45 and 60 satellites successful orbit by the extremity of this year.