Leading brokerage and finance firm Traders Union highlighted in a recent price prediction that Alphabet’s Google stock (NASDAQ: GOOG) could surge $1,150% in the next 10 years in 2036. Historically, it is entirely possible for big tech to come close to surging around 1,000% in a decade. In the last 10 years alone, GOOG has risen 963% in value. Investing $1,000 in 2016 has turned into $10,000 today. Those are phenomenal gains as the tech industry shifted to AI, which further boosted its growth prospects.

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Google Stock: 2 Paths To Aim For $1 Million in This Scenario

Path 1

According to the price prediction from the brokerage firm, Google stock could reach a high of $4,883 in 2036. That’s precisely 1,158% from its current price of $384. So a one-time investment of $86,400 could fetch you 225 shares of GOOG today at $384. In this way, simply doing nothing and holding on to it for the next 10 years could give you $1 million in returns.

Path 2

A one-time investment of $86,400 is a big amount, and not everyone has that much money in hand. It is an extremely expensive affair, and the savings of an average person are less than $50,000. So another way to buy Google stock is to start a dollar-cost-averaging (DCA) monthly investment. To aim for $1 million in 10 years, investors must DCA $3,600 per month to make their way through it. This should be done consistently and accumulate GOOG every month for 10 years.

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How Realistic Can This Be?

The blueprint is ready, the idea is chalked out, and the money is set, but can this turn into reality? As the saying goes, ‘reality is stranger than fiction,’ and the market draws its own conclusions. Alphabet is already a $4.6 trillion company in 2026, and Traders Union price prediction puts Google stock at $4,883 in 2036.

In order to reach that price target, Alphabet’s market cap must also hit roughly $55 Trillion. To put that in perspective, that is more than the current combined GDP of the United States and China. So a single company going beyond the GDP of two powerful nations in 10 years remains questionable. Of course, both the US and China will continue to grow, including Apple, but can it reach that amount in 2036?

Tech needs to compound at historic rates to even reach there in a decade. In path 2, while the chances of not making $1 million are there, it still gives a possibility of making bigger returns on your investments through the DCA method. There’s nothing wrong with investing in big tech Google stock every month for 10 years. Similarly to how the last 10 years gave 963% returns, traders could be surprised by how it pans out in the next 10 years.