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

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 created shares were distributed 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 approved a share repurchase program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $8,589,870,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, February, 4th. The information services provider reported $12.77 EPS for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $10.86 by $1.91. The information services provider earned $39.28 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $38.91 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 22.47% and a return on equity of 19.94%. The firm's revenue was up 21.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $9.70 earnings per share. View Alphabet's Earnings History.

Alphabet is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, April 22nd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Alphabet.

27 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Alphabet's stock. Their predictions range from $1,040.00 to $1,500.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's share price to reach $1,335.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 21.2% 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 articles about GOOG stock have trended somewhat positive on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive 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 negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a coverage optimism score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the information services provider a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company'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), Snap (SNAP), Yandex (YNDX), 58.com (WUBA), Line (LN), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Tripadvisor (TRIP) and Trade Desk (TTD).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Alphabet investors own include Netflix (NFLX), Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Visa (V), Bank of America (BAC), Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), General Electric (GE) and Starbucks (SBUX).

Alphabet's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (8.08%), BlackRock Inc. (2.82%), Lunia Capital LP (2.42%), Northern Trust Corp (0.59%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.57%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.51%). 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, 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 Parnassus Investments CA, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Sanders Capital LLC, Swedbank, Eaton Vance Management, Acadian Asset Management LLC, CI Investments Inc. and Polar Capital LLP. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Lunia Capital LP, Nordea Investment Management AB, Geode Capital Management LLC, Legal & General Group Plc, Millennium Management LLC, Bank of Nova Scotia and Royal London Asset Management Ltd.. 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 $1,101.39.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $765.68 billion and generates $136.82 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.