NASDAQ:GOOG - Alphabet Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Shares of Alphabet 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 share 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 purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October, 28th. The information services provider reported $10.12 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $12.57 by $2.45. The information services provider had revenue of $40.50 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $40.17 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 21.04% and a return on equity of 18.34%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 20.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $13.06 earnings per share. View Alphabet's Earnings History.

Alphabet is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, February 3rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Alphabet.

Alphabet will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, February 3rd at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

22 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Alphabet's shares. Their forecasts range from $1,287.00 to $1,700.00. On average, they expect Alphabet's share price to reach $1,500.13 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Alphabet.

22 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 21 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Press coverage about GOOG stock has been trending very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a news impact score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the information services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Alphabet.

Alphabet saw a decrease in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,230,000 shares, a decrease of 6.9% from the December 15th total of 3,470,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,300,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.5 days. Approximately 1.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Alphabet's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Alphabet include Omnicom Group (OMC), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), CLEAR CHANNEL O/SH (CCO), National CineMedia (NCMI), MDC Partners (MDCA) and Harte Hanks (HHS).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Alphabet investors own include Netflix (NFLX), Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Tesla (TSLA), Visa (V), Intel (INTC), Boeing (BA), Bank of America (BAC) and Starbucks (SBUX).

Alphabet's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.04%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (0.02%), Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.02%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.02%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.02%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.02%). Company insiders that own Alphabet stock include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, Capitalg Lp, David C Drummond, James Grier Campbell, John L Hennessy, L John Doerr and Sundar Pichai. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Alphabet.

GOOG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Manning & Napier Group LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC. Company insiders that have sold Alphabet company stock in the last year include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, Capitalg Lp, David C Drummond and John L Hennessy. View Insider Buying and Selling for Alphabet.

GOOG stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Artemis Investment Management LLP, OTA Financial Group L.P., DNB Asset Management AS, Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, Advisors Capital Management LLC and Aurora Investment Managers 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GOOG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1,494.09.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $1.03 trillion and generates $136.82 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $30.74 billion in net income (profit) each year or $47.51 on an earnings per share basis. Alphabet employs 98,771 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Alphabet.

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.