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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) was among the stocks Jim Cramer discussed during Mad Money, as he highlighted a difficult backdrop for stocks. Cramer noted that he did not see the issuance coming, as he remarked:

There’s the equity issuance from Google last week. Now I didn’t see it coming. You didn’t see it either. It was brilliant if you work at Google… You now have the money to build more… data centers to keep your cloud customers from going to another competitor. And that’s what they’re going to do. It’s bad for everyone else, though, especially shareholders of Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft. The ease with which Google raised the cash was incredible. Goldman Sachs did a tremendous job.

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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) provides technology-related products and services, including search, advertising, cloud computing, AI tools, and digital content platforms such as YouTube and Google Play. Cramer discussed the stock repurchases and issuance during the June 4 episode, as he said:

Something may be going on with the underwriting process that we haven’t seen very often. We just had a phenomenally successful Alphabet secondary priced well by Goldman Sachs to the point that it looked like we had very few flippers and a lot more demand than we expected. It was an outstanding success, just a huge amount of demand… Alphabet bought back $45 billion worth of stock. In the first quarter of this year, it snapped up another 15 billion. So it’s last year, 45, this year, 15. Now it is selling similar volumes. Can you believe that? Sold it, all the stock they bought last year? Wow.

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