As part of that process, the DoJ asked the court to sanction Google for allegedly destroying chat messages that should have been preserved as evidence. It remains to be seen whether this shareholder lawsuit against Alphabet will succeed, as it's alleging financial damages in the wake of Google's latest antitrust lawsuit. A look at Alphabet's class A stock (GOOGL) indicates that it rose in the wake of the 2020 lawsuit, and didn't begin to experience a downturn until early 2022 - the same time most of its peers recorded losses, too. GOOG, the company's class C stock, has generally moved in line with its class A counterpart. It's true that GOOGL did lose value shortly after the advertising antitrust lawsuit was launched in January, as AMI's legal team argues, but by early February it had climbed to a higher value than it was before the DoJ announced its latest antitrust action.