NASDAQ:GOOG - Alphabet Inc Class C Stock Price, Price Target & More

Alphabet Inc Class C trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "GOOG."

Alphabet Inc Class C shares 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 distributed to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, April 2nd 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of Alphabet Inc Class C stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Alphabet Inc Class C declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a share buyback program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $8,589,870,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) issued its earnings results on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $9.28 by $0.65. The information services provider had revenue of $31.15 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $30.28 billion. Alphabet Inc Class C had a net margin of 14.19% and a return on equity of 15.58%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 25.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $7.73 EPS. View Alphabet Inc Class C's Earnings History.

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

33 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Alphabet Inc Class C's stock. Their forecasts range from $970.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they expect Alphabet Inc Class C's share price to reach $1,134.48 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.6%. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet Inc Class C.

33 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet Inc Class C in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 28 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."

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

News coverage about GOOG stock has been trending positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet Inc Class C earned a daily sentiment score of 0.28 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the information services provider an impact score of 45.74 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

Alphabet Inc Class C's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Swedbank (0.09%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.03%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. (0.02%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.02%) and Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.01%). Company insiders that own Alphabet Inc Class C 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 Inc Class C.

GOOG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Columbia Partners L L C Investment Management, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware, Hudson Valley Investment Advisors Inc. ADV, James Hambro & Partners, Nexus Investment Management Inc., Fisher Asset Management LLC and Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC. Company insiders that have sold Alphabet Inc Class C 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 Inc Class C.

GOOG stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Swedbank, Pennsylvania Trust Co, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Verde Servicos Internacionais S.A., IFM Investors Pty Ltd, Contravisory Investment Management Inc., Xact Kapitalforvaltning AB and Bremer Trust National Association. View Insider Buying and Selling for Alphabet Inc Class C.

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 $1,188.82.

Alphabet Inc Class C has a market capitalization of $826.16 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 Inc Class C's mailing address is 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PARKWAY, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA, 94043. The information services provider can be reached via phone at 650-253-0000.