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 before market open 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 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 permits the company to repurchase $8,589,870,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's management believes its stock is 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 (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' 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 firm's revenue was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $7.73 earnings per share. 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.

32 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Alphabet Inc Class C's shares. Their predictions range from $970.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet Inc Class C's stock price to reach $1,142.7692 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.6%. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet Inc Class C.

32 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 27 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), Line (LN), Match Group (MTCH), 58.com (WUBA), Tripadvisor Inc Common Stock (TRIP), FactSet Research Systems (FDS) and Stars Group (TSG).

Press coverage about GOOG stock has trended somewhat positive on Sunday, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet Inc Class C earned a coverage optimism score of 0.07 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the information services provider an impact score of 47.13 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

Alphabet Inc Class C's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.34%), Fred Alger Management Inc. (0.12%), Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC (0.10%), Swedbank (0.09%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.03%) and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%). 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 Baillie Gifford & Co., Hartford Investment Management Co., Columbia Partners L L C Investment Management, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Fred Alger Management Inc., Pendal Group Ltd and Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware. 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 Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC, Swedbank, ADAMCAPITAL Gestao de Recursos Ltda., Pennsylvania Trust Co, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, YCG LLC, Verde Servicos Internacionais S.A. and Calamos Advisors LLC. 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 $1,184.91.

Alphabet Inc Class C has a market capitalization of $823.45 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.