NASDAQ:GOOG - Alphabet Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Alphabet's stock split on the morning of Thursday, April 3rd 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, February 10th 2014. The newly created shares were issued 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 program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $8,589,870,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) released its earnings results on Thursday, October, 25th. The information services provider reported $13.06 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $10.41 by $2.65. The information services provider earned $27.16 billion during the quarter. Alphabet had a net margin of 14.45% and a return on equity of 19.40%. View Alphabet's Earnings History.

Alphabet is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 4th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Alphabet.

Alphabet will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, February 4th at 4:30 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

27 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Alphabet's shares. Their predictions range from $1,040.00 to $1,500.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's share price to reach $1,306.8182 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 19.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Alphabet.

27 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 26 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

News stories about GOOG stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a news sentiment score of 1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the information services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

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

Alphabet's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include USS Investment Management Ltd (0.04%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (0.03%), BTIM Corp. (0.02%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.02%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.01%). 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 Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, KAMES CAPITAL plc, Waverton Investment Management Ltd, Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc., Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, Sit Investment Associates Inc., Bainco International Investors and Patten & Patten Inc. TN. Company insiders that have sold Alphabet company stock in the last year include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, David C Drummond, James Grier Campbell, John L Hennessy, L John Doerr and Sundar Pichai. View Insider Buying and Selling for Alphabet.

GOOG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Simplex Trading LLC, USS Investment Management Ltd, Factory Mutual Insurance Co., QCI Asset Management Inc. NY, Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, RPG Investment Advisory LLC, Oakbrook Investments LLC and Confluence Investment Management 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 $1,089.90.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $749.56 billion and generates $110.86 billion in revenue each year.

The official website for Alphabet is http://www.google.com.

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.