Alphabet is holding $94.1bn of SpaceX — and $14.1bn of it cannot be sold until Q3 2027
Two footnotes under the fair-value table in the Q2 10-Q. SpaceX is 94% of Alphabet's $100.2bn of marketable equity securities: $80.0bn under short-term sale restrictions and $14.1bn restricted through the third quarter of 2027. The date appears only in the footnote
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Alphabet Form 10-Q (Q2 2026, filed 2026-07-31), Note 2 fair-value table with footnotes (1) and (2), Note 3 (gains on equity securities), statement of operations, balance sheet
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Alphabet (GOOGL) filed its Q2 2026 quarterly report (10-Q) on July 31, and the fair-value table carries two footnotes. One says $80.0bn of the marketable equity securities is SpaceX stock under short-term sale restrictions; the other says a further $14.1bn is restricted through the third quarter of 2027. Together that is $94.1bn, or 94% of the $100.2bn of marketable equity securities Alphabet holds.
In plain terms
Alphabet, the parent of Google, holds $94.1bn of SpaceX shares. The filing says $14.1bn of that cannot be sold until the third quarter of 2027. The other $80.0bn is also restricted, but the filing does not say when those restrictions end. The $94.1bn is 94% of all the listed shares Alphabet owns, which come to $100.2bn.
What happened
Alphabet (GOOGL) runs Google and YouTube.
Note 2 of its Q2 2026 quarterly report (10-Q), filed on July 31, holds the table of cash and financial assets carried at market value. The table itself is familiar. The two footnotes under it are the subject of this article.
Footnote (1): "Includes $80.0 billion of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) shares subject to short-term restrictions on the ability to sell."
Footnote (2): "Includes $14.1 billion of SpaceX shares subject to long-term restrictions on the ability to sell through the third quarter of 2027."
Together that is $94.1bn. In the table, marketable equity securities appear in two places: $86,049m as a current asset and $14,126m inside other non-current assets, $100,175m in all. One holding is 94% of it.
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It is the $80.0bn in footnote (1) plus the $14.1bn in footnote (2) of the fair-value table in Note 2. They sit inside marketable equity securities of $86,049m and other non-current assets of $14,126m respectively.
Can Alphabet sell the SpaceX stock?
The filing says only that $80.0bn is subject to short-term sale restrictions and $14.1bn is restricted through the third quarter of 2027. When the short-term restrictions end is not stated in this report.
How does the holding affect reported profit?
Price movements go into that quarter's earnings. Gains recognised on equity securities in the quarter were $99,031m. How that sits within the quarter's results is set out in the subscriber section of this article.
Where can I check this myself?
On SEC EDGAR, open Alphabet Inc.'s Q2 2026 10-Q (accession 0001652044-26-000071) and read footnotes (1) and (2) under the fair-value table in Note 2, together with Note 3.
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Alphabet Form 10-Q (Q2 2026, filed 2026-07-31), Note 2 fair-value table with footnotes (1) and (2), Note 3 (gains on equity securities), statement of operations, balance sheet · SEC EDGAR · This article is not investment advice. Disclaimer
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