NASDAQ:GOOG - Alphabet Inc Class C Stock Price, Price Target & More

Alphabet Inc Class C trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "GOOG."

Alphabet Inc Class C shares 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 closing bell on Wednesday, April 2nd 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of Alphabet Inc Class C stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Alphabet Inc Class C declared that its board has approved a stock buyback program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $8,589,870,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc Class C (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $9.28 by $0.65. The information services provider had revenue of $31.15 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $30.28 billion. Alphabet Inc Class C had a return on equity of 15.58% and a net margin of 14.19%. The firm's revenue was up 25.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $7.73 EPS. View Alphabet Inc Class C's Earnings History.

Alphabet Inc Class C is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, July, 23rd 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Alphabet Inc Class C.

33 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for Alphabet Inc Class C's shares. Their predictions range from $970.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they expect Alphabet Inc Class C's share price to reach $1,126.4231 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet Inc Class C.

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

Media coverage about GOOG stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet Inc Class C earned a coverage optimism score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned headlines about the information services provider an impact score of 46.78 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

Alphabet Inc Class C'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 Inc Class C 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 Inc Class C.

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 Inc Class C 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 Inc Class C.

GOOG stock was bought 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 Inc Class C.

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 $1,169.84.

Alphabet Inc Class C has a market capitalization of $815.49 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 Inc Class C's mailing address is 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PARKWAY, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA, 94043. The information services provider can be reached via phone at 650-253-0000.