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Fact check: What was the closing price of Google on September 25 2025?
Executive Summary
The available analyses point to a single explicit numeric claim: the closing price of Google (Alphabet) on September 25, 2025 was $246.57, reported by one historical-price entry [1]. The other examined items are non-informative privacy or promotional pages and do not corroborate or contradict that figure, leaving [1] as the sole source for the specific closing price in the record set provided [2] [1] [3].
1. Why one clear number stands out—and why it matters
Only one entry in the assembled analyses gives a clear, specific closing price for September 25, 2025: $246.57 [1]. The rest of the materials reviewed do not supply a closing price for that date; they are described as privacy-policy pages, cookie banners, or promotional site elements, which lack historical-price details [3] [4] [2]. Given that a single explicit numeric claim is present, the immediate inference in this dataset is straightforward: the historical table cited by [1] records $246.57 as the close. This single-source reliance raises standard verification concerns typical in data reporting: when one dataset supplies a unique figure, corroboration from independent price feeds or exchange records is ordinarily required to confirm accuracy.
2. What the non-numeric sources tell us about provenance and reliability
Several analyzed entries are identified as privacy or cookie pages and do not contain price data; these materials are effectively metadata about websites rather than market records [3] [4]. Their presence in the collection suggests the aggregator or scraping process captured site chrome alongside substantive pages. When web captures include privacy-policy pages, it signals potential noise in the dataset and complicates provenance assessment, because the data’s origin may be a commercial aggregator rather than a primary exchange feed. The literal absence of price data in these entries means they neither support nor refute the $246.57 claim; they only underscore the need to treat the single numeric entry as uncorroborated within this evidence pool.
3. Dating and temporal context: why a May 2025 publication matters
The only analytic item that supplies the $246.57 figure carries a listed publication timestamp of May 14, 2025 [1]. A historical-price table published in May 2025 can legitimately report closing prices for prior dates, including September 25, 2025, only if it was updated later or contains forward-looking placeholders; otherwise the timing is inconsistent. The presence of a May 2025 date alongside a reported September 2025 close raises questions about dataset update practices or metadata accuracy. Because the remainder of the dataset includes entries with no dates or older timestamps, there is no internal, contemporaneous corroboration in the provided analyses that confirms the dataset’s coverage or refresh cadence for late-2025 pricing.
4. Cross-check limitations and what’s missing from the supplied evidence
The compiled analyses do not include primary exchange records, official Alphabet filings, or multiple independent historical-price vendors; instead, they show a single vendor-style historical-table citation [1] and several non-data pages [3] [4] [2]. Without parallel confirmation from additional independent feeds or a timestamped exchange ledger, the $246.57 claim remains an isolated data point in this corpus. Standard verification practice would be to compare Nasdaq/NYSE trade prints, exchange settlement data, or at least two reputable historical-price services. Those comparisons cannot be performed with the materials provided here, so the dataset supports a provisional identification rather than definitive proof.
5. Bottom line: the claim, its strength, and the prudent next step
From the supplied analyses, the only explicit closing-price claim for September 25, 2025 is $246.57, reported in one historical-price entry dated May 14, 2025 [1]. The remainder of the documents are privacy or promotional pages that provide no pricing evidence [3] [4] [2]. The strength of the claim is therefore weak-to-moderate: a clear numeric assertion exists, but it lacks corroboration within this set of sources and features a publication-timestamp mismatch that warrants caution. The prudent next step—beyond the scope of the provided analyses—is to obtain at least one independent historical-price record (exchange or major data vendor) dated and timestamped to confirm the $246.57 close.