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Alphabet Inc ($GOOG) voting rights are essentially worthless, right?
Why are GOOG (not voting shares) still trading at a premium to GOOGL (voting shares)?
Why does GOOG trade at a slight premium to GOOGL?
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What is Alphabet Inc (Google) Class C stock price today?
What is Alphabet Inc (Google) Class C stock ticker?
Is Alphabet Inc (Google) Class C stock price growing?
There are 3 classes of Alphabet Inc stock: A, B and C - all representing equal ownership % stakes.
Class A shares = Regular voting rights. 1 vote each. Publicly/exchange traded.
Class C shares = No voting rights. 0 votes each. Publicly/exchange traded.
Class B shares = Super-voting rights. 10 votes each. Privately/non-exchange-traded.
The Class B shares are held only by company insiders. To my knowledge, there are 64 holders in total, though the large majority of them are owned by co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. So despite owning about 9% of Alphabet shares between them, Sergey and Larry control over 50% of shareholder votes.
Although I think it's a good idea for the two of them to be able to steer the company as they see fit, it seems insane to me that they can't be outvoted by the other 90% of shareholders.
Is there any point in Class A shares having voting power at all? The only thing I can think of is that it allows Sergey and Larry to gauge the general opinion of shareholders as a whole and take it into account.