[ElonMuskrat]

> Is it a new class of Alphabet stock?

No. If it's stock it's gonna be Waymo stock.

> Was this a corporate bond?

We don't know the details. If bonds are involved, they're probably convertible bonds [e.g. convertible to stock].

[AndrewKemendo]

Waymo is wholly owned by Alphabet.

So in a normal case, Waymo itself wouldn't have a separate filing for incorporation, or tax status etc... which means it's wouldn't have it's own stock.

Hence the question

[frei]

Waymo does have it's own stock.

I don't know how it works, but it does. I have friends who worked at Waymo and got Waymo stock (well, options that can be exercised for stock). I suppose that would make it not a wholly owned subsidiary, considering that some of the employees own some of it?

[joshuamorton]

Unless this changed recently (which it may well have), Waymo "stock" is just a special performance scheme that converts to Alphabet stock based on waymo, not alphabet, performance.

[AndrewKemendo]

Well legally it's one or the other and that's what is confusing to me.