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 payable to shareholders after the closing bell 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 announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback plan on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $9.28 by $0.65. The information services provider earned $31.15 billion during 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%. Alphabet's revenue for the quarter was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $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.

39 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Alphabet's stock. Their predictions range from $725.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's stock price to reach $1,104.0667 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Alphabet saw a drop in short interest in 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 daily trading volume, of 1,840,731 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.9% of the company's shares are sold short.

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

News coverage about GOOG stock has trended somewhat positive on Thursday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a daily sentiment score of 0.13 on Accern's scale. They also gave media stories about the information services provider an impact score of 46.01 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

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 $1,040.04.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $708.66 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.