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Reddit post compares Alphabet's diversification to GE's pre-9/11 conglomerate structure

A post on r/investing argues that investing in Alphabet (GOOG) is often justified by its ownership of dozens of businesses, but warns this reasoning resembles the case for GE 30 years ago. The post states that GE was involved in aerospace, healthcare, insurance, financial services, consumer goods and media, and that the beginning of its fall was the failing of its core business after 9/11.

Why “Rumor”

  • Only community or trader posts: r/investing

0 independent source groups across 1 post · evidence score 9/100. How labels work

Market around the story

AssetPrice at first report6h before1h before1h after6h after1h move vs normal24h volume vs median
GOOGL $352.73 −0.29% −0.08% +0.19% +0.60% 0.3σ –

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What the sources claim

  1. Investing in GOOG is described as investing in dozens of businesses such as search, gmail, chrome, android, youtube and gemini. GOOGL

    “by investing in GOOG you're really investing in dozens of businesses (search, gmail, chrome, android, youtube, gemini, etc)”
    r/investing

  2. The same diversification argument could have been made for investing in GE 30 years ago.

    “you could have made this same argument investing in GE back 30 years ago”
    r/investing

  3. GE was involved in aerospace, healthcare, insurance, financial services, consumer goods and media (NBC).

    “Aerospace, healthcare, insurance, financial services, consumer goods, media (NBC), basically GE was involved in everything”
    r/investing

  4. The beginning of GE's fall was the failing of its core business after 9/11.

    “the beginning of the fall for GE was the failing of their core business after 9/11”
    r/investing

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Summary and claims extracted by AI with prompt analyze-story@5 on 2026-10-15 12:50 UTC. Labels are computed from the sources, not by the model.