“Unlikely Collab: Speculations Surround Alphabet and HubSpot Merger”
If such a deal were to happen, the cost would likely be pretty substantial, involving some significant premium over the current value.
While Google/Alphabet has been extremely acquisitive over the years, the largest deal that it’s ever made was spending $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility in 2011.
More recently the largest deal involved spending $5.4 billion for security intelligence platform Mandiant in 2022.
Google usually stays under $3 billion, so a deal of this scope would be very much out of character for the company.
Another issue the company could face in trying to buy HubSpot is a hostile regulatory environment for large deals.
