NASDAQ:GOOG - Alphabet Inc Class C Stock Price, Price Target & More

Alphabet Inc Class C trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "GOOG."

Shares of Alphabet Inc Class C 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 payable to shareholders after the market closes 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 has approved a stock buyback 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 purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $9.28 by $0.65. The information services provider earned $31.15 billion during 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 business's quarterly revenue was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $7.73 EPS. 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 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Alphabet Inc Class C's shares. Their predictions range from $970.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they expect Alphabet Inc Class C's stock price to reach $1,134.48 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.3%. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet Inc Class C.

33 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 28 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), Match Group (MTCH), Line (LN), 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 this week, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet Inc Class C earned a media sentiment score of 0.11 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news articles about the information services provider an impact score of 44.72 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.

Alphabet Inc Class C's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.34%), Swedbank (0.09%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.03%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.02%) and NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. (0.02%). 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., Columbia Partners L L C Investment Management, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Pendal Group Ltd, Mckinley Capital Management LLC Delaware, Hudson Valley Investment Advisors Inc. ADV and James Hambro & Partners. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Swedbank, Pennsylvania Trust Co, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Verde Servicos Internacionais S.A., Calamos Advisors LLC, IFM Investors Pty Ltd, Broadleaf Partners LLC and Contravisory Investment Management Inc.. 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 $1,197.38.

Alphabet Inc Class C has a market capitalization of $822.72 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.