Alphabet (GOOG) Stock Forecast, Price & News

13 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet in the last twelve months. There are currently 13 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" GOOG shares.
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13 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for Alphabet's shares. Their GOOG share price forecasts range from $118.00 to $160.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $130.94 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.1%.
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Alphabet's stock was trading at $88.73 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, GOOG stock has increased by 50.8% and is now trading at $133.77.
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Alphabet saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 33,800,000 shares, an increase of 8.6% from the August 31st total of 31,120,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 22,020,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 24th 2023.
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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, July, 25th. The information services provider reported $1.44 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.32 by $0.12. The information services provider earned $74.60 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $72.85 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 21.05% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.49%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 7.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.21 earnings per share.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) stock in their portfolio include Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLC), iShares Global Comm Services ETF (IXP), Fidelity MSCI Communication Services Index ETF (FCOM), Vanguard Communication Services ETF (VOX), American Customer Satisfaction ETF (ACSI), Invesco NASDAQ Internet ETF (PNQI), Motley Fool 100 Index ETF (TMFC) and ProShares Ultra Communication Services (LTL).

Alphabet shares split on the morning of Monday, July 18th 2022. The 20-1 split was announced on Tuesday, February 1st 2022. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, July 15th 2022. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 2,000 shares after the split.

4,614 employees have rated Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai on Glassdoor.com. Sundar Pichai has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Sundar Pichai in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Alphabet investors own include Netflix (NFLX), NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Visa (V), Intel (INTC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Salesforce (CRM) and Mastercard (MA).

Alphabet trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "GOOG."

Alphabet's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (2.85%), Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich (1.58%), State Street Corp (1.51%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.78%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.68%) and Capital International Investors (0.64%). Insiders that own company stock include 2016 Gp LLC Gv, 2017 Gp LLC Gv, 2019 Gp LLC Gv, 2021 Gp LLC Gv, Aaron Boynton, Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, Brin Sergey, Capitalg 2014 Lp, Frances Arnold, John Kent Walker, John Kent Walker, John L Hennessy, John L Hennessy, Kavitark Ram Shriram, Lawrence Page, Philipp Schindler, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai.
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Shares of GOOG stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of GOOG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $133.77.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) has a market capitalization of $1.69 trillion and generates $282.84 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $59.97 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.72 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 181,798 workers across the globe.

Alphabet's mailing address is 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PARKWAY, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA, 94043. The official website for the company is www.google.com. The information services provider can be reached via phone at (650) 253-0000 or via fax at 650-253-0001.