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 issued 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 authorized a share buyback plan on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate 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 Inc Class C had a net margin of 14.19% and a return on equity of 15.58%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business 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.

33 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives 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 share price to reach $1,126.4231 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet Inc Class C.

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), Weibo (WB), IHS Markit (INFO), Snap (SNAP), Match Group (MTCH), Yandex (YNDX), 58.com (WUBA), Line (LN), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Tripadvisor Inc Common Stock (TRIP) and Sabre (SABR).

Press coverage about GOOG stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet Inc Class C earned a news sentiment score of 0.05 on Accern's scale. They also gave media coverage about the information services provider an impact score of 46.66 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Alphabet Inc Class C's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (2.74%), Summit Trail Advisors LLC (2.69%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.60%), Northern Trust Corp (0.58%), Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.35%) and Magellan Asset Management Ltd (0.30%). 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 OppenheimerFunds Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., California Public Employees Retirement System, Baillie Gifford & Co., OZ Management LP, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Wells Fargo & Company MN and Swiss National Bank. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Summit Trail Advisors LLC, Magellan Asset Management Ltd, BlackRock Inc., TT International, Rockefeller Capital Management L.P., Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, State of Wisconsin Investment Board and Mackay Shields 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 $1,155.48.

Alphabet Inc Class C has a market capitalization of $804.51 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.