NASDAQ:GOOG - Alphabet Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Alphabet shares split on Thursday, April 3rd 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, February 10th 2014. The newly issued shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, April 2nd 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of Alphabet stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Alphabet declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase plan on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which permits the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted its earnings results on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $9.28 by $0.65. The information services provider had revenue of $31.15 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $30.28 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 14.19% and a return on equity of 15.58%. The company's revenue was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $7.73 earnings per share. View Alphabet's Earnings History.

Alphabet is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July, 23rd 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Alphabet.

35 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Alphabet's stock. Their forecasts range from $970.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's share price to reach $1,129.1481 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Alphabet saw a drop in short interest in the month of April. As of April 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,615,420 shares, a drop of 28.3% from the March 30th total of 3,647,002 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,840,731 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the stock are sold short.

Some companies that are related to Alphabet include Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), Baidu (BIDU), Red Hat Software (RHT), Twitter (TWTR), Weibo (WB), IHS Markit (INFO), Snap (SNAP), 58.com (WUBA), Yandex (YNDX), Match Group (MTCH), LINE (LN), FactSet (FDS), TripAdvisor (TRIP) and Sabre (SABR).

Media stories about GOOG stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to Accern. Accern scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a coverage optimism score of 0.08 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the information services provider an impact score of 44.94 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

Alphabet's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (2.74%), Summit Trail Advisors LLC (2.69%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.60%), Northern Trust Corp (0.58%), Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.35%) and Magellan Asset Management Ltd (0.30%). Company insiders that own Alphabet stock include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, David C Drummond, Diane B Greene, James Grier Campbell, John L Hennessy, L John Doerr, Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin, Shirley M Tilghman and Sundar Pichai. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Alphabet.

GOOG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including OppenheimerFunds Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., California Public Employees Retirement System, Baillie Gifford & Co., OZ Management LP, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN and Swiss National Bank. Company insiders that have sold Alphabet company stock in the last year include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, David C Drummond, Diane B Greene, James Grier Campbell, John L Hennessy, L John Doerr, Shirley M Tilghman and Sundar Pichai. View Insider Buying and Selling for Alphabet.

GOOG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Summit Trail Advisors LLC, Magellan Asset Management Ltd, BlackRock Inc., TT International, Rockefeller Capital Management L.P., Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, State of Wisconsin Investment Board and Mackay Shields LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Alphabet.

Shares of GOOG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GOOG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1,079.24.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $743.40 billion and generates $110.86 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $12.66 billion in net income (profit) each year or $32.05 on an earnings per share basis.

Alphabet's mailing address is 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PARKWAY, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA, 94043. The information services provider can be reached via phone at 650-253-0000.