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

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

Shares of Alphabet split on Thursday, April 3rd 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, February 10th 2014. The newly minted shares were payable 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 initiated a share buyback program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $8,589,870,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates 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 return on equity of 15.58% and a net margin of 14.19%. Alphabet's revenue was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $7.73 EPS. 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 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Alphabet's stock. Their forecasts range from $725.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's share price to reach $1,104.0667 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Alphabet saw a decline in short interest in the month of April. As of April 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,615,420 shares, a decline 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 days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the company 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 stories about GOOG stock have been trending somewhat positive on Thursday, according to Accern. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a news sentiment score of 0.04 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the information services provider an impact score of 43.59 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

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.