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

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

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

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $9.28 by $0.65. The information services provider earned $31.15 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $30.28 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 14.19% and a return on equity of 15.79%. The business's revenue was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $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 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Alphabet's stock. Their forecasts range from $725.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they expect Alphabet's stock price to reach $1,104.0667 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Alphabet saw a decrease in short interest during the month of April. As of April 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,615,420 shares, a decrease of 28.3% from the March 30th total of 3,647,002 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,840,731 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold.

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), TripAdvisor (TRIP) and Sabre (SABR).

News coverage about GOOG stock has trended somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a news sentiment score of 0.12 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the information services provider an impact score of 45.29 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.

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 $1,021.18.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $741.65 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.