NASDAQ:GOOG - Alphabet Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Alphabet shares split before market open 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 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 announced that its board has approved a share repurchase program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which permits the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October, 28th. The information services provider reported $10.12 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $12.57 by $2.45. The information services provider earned $40.50 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $40.17 billion. Alphabet had a return on equity of 18.34% and a net margin of 21.04%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 20.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $13.06 earnings per share. View Alphabet's Earnings History.

Alphabet is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 3rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Alphabet.

Alphabet will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, February 3rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

22 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Alphabet's shares. Their forecasts range from $1,287.00 to $1,700.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's share price to reach $1,500.13 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 0.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Alphabet.

22 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 21 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Media headlines about GOOG stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the information services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Alphabet.

Alphabet saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,230,000 shares, a drop of 6.9% from the December 15th total of 3,470,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,300,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Alphabet's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Alphabet include Omnicom Group (OMC), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), CLEAR CHANNEL O/SH (CCO), National CineMedia (NCMI), MDC Partners (MDCA) and Harte Hanks (HHS).

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

Alphabet's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.04%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (0.02%), Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.02%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.02%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.02%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.02%). Company insiders that own Alphabet stock include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, Capitalg Lp, David C Drummond, James Grier Campbell, John L Hennessy, L John Doerr and Sundar Pichai. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Alphabet.

GOOG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Marathon Asset Management LLP, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Ironvine Capital Partners LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Manning & Napier Group LLC and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. Company insiders that have sold Alphabet company stock in the last year include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, Capitalg Lp, David C Drummond and John L Hennessy. View Insider Buying and Selling for Alphabet.

GOOG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Artemis Investment Management LLP, OTA Financial Group L.P., DNB Asset Management AS, Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, Advisors Capital Management LLC and Aurora Investment Managers LLC.. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GOOG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1,489.42.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $1.03 trillion and generates $136.82 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $30.74 billion in net income (profit) each year or $47.51 on an earnings per share basis. Alphabet employs 98,771 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Alphabet.

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.