Unfortunately, it is not really possible to invest in YouTube's stock directly.
That is because Google now owns 100% of the company after acquiring YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006.
However, you can get exposure to YouTube by investing in Google's parent Alphabet, Inc. |It is the company that owns Google, Gmail, Android, Google Cloud, Youtube, and many other properties.
Therefore, you can indirectly invest in YouTube by buying Alphabet stock, a publicly traded company, which is indexed on the NASDAQ with the stock ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG.
The stock price of GOOGL is around $1,212 per share at the time of writing this, while the stock price of GOOG is at $1,216 per share.
If you wonder what the difference is between them, GOOGL (class A shares) contains voting rights, while GOOG (class C shares) has no voting rights. Read,
