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

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

Alphabet's stock split on the morning of Thursday, April 3rd 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, February 10th 2014. The newly issued shares were payable 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 of Directors has initiated a share buyback plan on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $9.28 by $0.65. The information services provider earned $31.15 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $30.28 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 14.19% and a return on equity of 15.58%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $7.73 earnings per share. 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.

36 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Alphabet's stock. Their predictions range from $970.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's share price to reach $1,129.1481 in the next year. 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 daily volume of 1,840,731 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Currently, 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), Twitter (TWTR), Weibo (WB), IHS Markit (INFO), Snap (SNAP), 58.com (WUBA), Match Group (MTCH), Yandex (YNDX), LINE (LN), FactSet (FDS), TripAdvisor (TRIP) and Sabre (SABR).

Press coverage about GOOG stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a media sentiment score of 0.23 on Accern's scale. They also gave news stories about the information services provider an impact score of 46.64 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

Alphabet's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (2.74%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.60%), Northern Trust Corp (0.58%), Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.35%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (0.30%) and Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.26%). Company insiders that own Alphabet 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.

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 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.

GOOG stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including 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, Mackay Shields LLC and Farallon Capital Management 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GOOG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1,066.36.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $741.06 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.