Alphabet Stock Forecast, Price & News

25 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 22 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "buy" Alphabet stock.
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Alphabet is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 29th 2021.
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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 26th. The information services provider reported $26.29 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $15.74 by $10.55. The information services provider earned $55.30 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $51.40 billion. Alphabet had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 23.54% and a net margin of 26.11%. The firm's revenue was up 34.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $9.87 earnings per share.
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Alphabet's stock was trading at $1,215.41 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, GOOG shares have increased by 106.6% and is now trading at $2,511.35.
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Shares of Alphabet split on Thursday, April 3rd 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, February 10th 2014. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell 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.

25 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Alphabet's stock. Their forecasts range from $1,725.00 to $3,050.00. On average, they expect Alphabet's stock price to reach $2,479.06 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.3%.
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4,614 employees have rated Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Glassdoor.com. Sundar Pichai has an approval rating of 94% among Alphabet's employees. This puts Sundar Pichai in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Some companies that are related to Alphabet include Omnicom Group (OMC), The Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO), National CineMedia (NCMI) and MDC Partners (MDCA).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Alphabet investors own include Netflix (NFLX), NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Alibaba Group (BABA), The Walt Disney (DIS), Visa (V), Intel (INTC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), salesforce.com (CRM) and Mastercard (MA).

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

Alphabet's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (2.88%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.98%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.67%), Capital International Investors (0.61%), Northern Trust Corp (0.57%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.54%). Company insiders that own Alphabet stock include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, Capitalg Lp, David C Drummond, John Kent Walker, John L Hennessy, Lawrence Page, Philipp Schindler, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai.
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GOOG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Baillie Gifford & Co., SB Management Ltd, Alliancebernstein L.P., Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Polen Capital Management LLC, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, and Morgan Stanley. Company insiders that have sold Alphabet company stock in the last year include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, John Kent Walker, John L Hennessy, Lawrence Page, Philipp Schindler, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sergey Brin, and Sundar Pichai.
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GOOG stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., SG Americas Securities LLC, CIBC World Markets Inc., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Clarus Group Inc., Jennison Associates LLC, Baupost Group LLC MA, and Rokos Capital Management LLP.
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One share of GOOG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $2,511.35.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $1.68 trillion and generates $182.53 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $40.27 billion in net income (profit) each year or $58.61 on an earnings per share basis.

Alphabet employs 139,995 workers across the globe.

Alphabet was founded in 2015.

The official website for Alphabet is www.google.com.

Alphabet is headquartered at 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PARKWAY, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA, 94043.

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.