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

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

Alphabet's stock 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 issued 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 declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback plan on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) released its quarterly 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 analysts' expectations of $30.28 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 14.19% and a return on equity of 15.58%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 25.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $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.

35 brokers have issued 1-year target prices 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 year. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Alphabet saw a drop in short interest in 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 volume of 1,840,731 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.9% of the company's stock are short sold.

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

Press coverage about GOOG stock has trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a media sentiment score of 0.09 on Accern's scale. They also gave media coverage about the information services provider an impact score of 47.03 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

Alphabet's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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 acquired 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 $1,077.12.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $750.33 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.