NASDAQ:GOOG - Alphabet Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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 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 has initiated a stock repurchase program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which allows the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 25th. The information services provider reported $13.06 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $10.41 by $2.65. The information services provider had revenue of $27.16 billion for the quarter. Alphabet had a net margin of 14.45% and a return on equity of 19.40%. View Alphabet's Earnings History.

Alphabet is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 7th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Alphabet.

30 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Alphabet's stock. Their predictions range from $1,040.00 to $1,500.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's share price to reach $1,310.7143 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 23.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Alphabet.

30 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 27 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

News headlines about GOOG stock have trended very positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a media sentiment score of 3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the information services provider a news buzz of 9.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future.

Some companies that are related to Alphabet include Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), Baidu (BIDU), Red Hat (RHT), Twitter (TWTR), IHS Markit (INFO), Weibo (WB), Match Group (MTCH), Yandex (YNDX), 58.com (WUBA), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Tripadvisor (TRIP), Snap (SNAP), Sabre (SABR) and Line (LN).

Alphabet's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Trust Asset Management LLC (2.99%), BlackRock Inc. (2.80%), FMR LLC (1.65%), Capital Research Global Investors (0.92%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.58%) and Capital International Investors (0.56%). 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 Capital World Investors, Private Advisor Group LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Alliancebernstein L.P., Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC, Salem Investment Counselors Inc., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and JPMorgan Chase & Co.. Company insiders that have sold Alphabet company stock in the last year include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, David C Drummond, James Grier Campbell, John L Hennessy, L John Doerr and Sundar Pichai. View Insider Buying and Selling for Alphabet.

GOOG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Trust Asset Management LLC, Capital International Investors, BlackRock Inc., Matthew Goff Investment Advisor LLC, FMR LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Jennison Associates LLC and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 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 $1,061.49.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $738.67 billion and generates $110.86 billion in revenue each year.

The official website for Alphabet is http://www.google.com.

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.