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

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 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 approved a stock buyback program 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 purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted its earnings results on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' 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 15.58%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm 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.

35 analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Alphabet's shares. Their forecasts range from $970.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's stock price to reach $1,129.1481 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Alphabet saw a drop in short interest during the month of April. As of April 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,615,420 shares, a drop 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 currently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.9% of the company's stock are sold short.

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), Yandex (YNDX), Match Group (MTCH), LINE (LN), FactSet (FDS), TripAdvisor (TRIP) and Sabre (SABR).

Media stories about GOOG stock have been trending somewhat negative on Thursday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a news sentiment score of -0.13 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the information services provider an impact score of 46.74 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future.

Alphabet's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 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 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.

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 $1,079.69.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $743.40 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.