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 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 authorized a stock repurchase plan on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $8,589,870,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) released 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 had revenue of $31.15 billion for 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%. Alphabet's quarterly revenue was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm 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 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Alphabet's shares. Their predictions range from $725.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they anticipate 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 in 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 trading 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 sold short.

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).

Press coverage about GOOG stock has trended somewhat positive this week, Accern reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing 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 nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a coverage optimism score of 0.05 on Accern's scale. They also gave press coverage about the information services provider an impact score of 47.60 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.

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.