Since Sundar took over as CEO at Google (August 10, 2015):
- Google is up 5.2X - I am not sure how you got 152%
- Apple is up 10X
- Microsoft is up 8.25X
- Netflix is up 7.45X
- Amazon us up 7.28X
- Facebook is up 6.27X
Google has the worst returns in ten years of the FAANG(+M) companies. A 5X increase in ten years is still phenomenal, but it's important to not look at that number in isolation.
And for fun:
- Nvidia is up 207X
- Intel is down 12%
- The S&P 500 is up 2.72X
Microsoft was also up by leaps and bounds when Ballmer was in charge and RIM had its highest market cap in 2010 - three years after the iPhone was introduced.
That has nothing to do with whether Google has the ability to create new great products and it has failed miserably at that over the past decade.
