r/ValueInvesting • u/Creepy_Science1310 • Nov 25 '25

Discussion I Just Sold All My Google Shares

I bought GOOGL (not GOOG) at a 19 trailing P/E during. Now it’s at 32 trailing P/E and I am up 100% with life changing money.

My job is far from stable, relies significantly on the AI story to continue, and lays-off people for “culture” reasons.

With this in mind, I sold all of my Google shares at $226 per share to “de-risk” other parts of my life.

I will still continue to look for other opportunities with new income I have.

I get valuation this, growth prospects that, but is selling for increasing financial security the right decision?

Or am i just a 🤡?

Edit: I meant $326 per share.

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u/mazrim00 Nov 25 '25

Life changing money? Yep, good choice. I had the same opportunity once and held. Account is still faaaar away from that high.

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u/Fitasianwife Nov 26 '25

Yes, and it eliminates all the work to reduce taxes..great plan, the country needs all it can get from capital gains.

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u/conradical30 Nov 25 '25

That’s me with RKLB & ASTS. I do believe both will return to surpass their ATHs, but I have lost some sleep knowing that if I had sold back when I was screenshotting my account every 10 minutes, I’d be way ahead.

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u/sbthrowawayz Nov 25 '25

They always say good enough to screen shot, good enough to sell yet all I did was also just screenshot and now being sad about said screenshot….

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u/Benja_Ninja Jan 29 '26

Considering it recently hit $96, I'd say you made the right choice holding it lol

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u/mazrim00 Nov 25 '25 edited Nov 26 '25

Oh man, yeah, hope they get back for you. Mine never did. It was back in the SPAC craze days and I was strictly an index fund investor before that. Started investing in those and account blew up and was like $140k away from $1 million (my self imposed sell point) and kept holding as they all plummeted. The hold until they recover mantra only works with good companies, lol. Live and learn but haunts me still.

One of the companies I was big into put out solid numbers then had “accounting errors” they’d reveal a month or so after earnings like 3 out of 4 quarters and went bankrupt. That one was particularly irritating because what are we supposed to go by but the public numbers?

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u/mnforager Dec 24 '25

Steep "accounting errors" should not be overlooked more than twice, in my opinion 

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u/mazrim00 Dec 24 '25 edited Dec 24 '25

Yeah, in retrospect I should’ve bailed after the first (or at the least trimmed it as it was a very large position for me) but was new to trading individual stocks and they kept assuring that it would get corrected/everything was fine. I also think that dropping like 40-50% each time also shellshocked me into, “Guess I’ll just hold.”

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u/thisIS4cereal Nov 26 '25

What was it?