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 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 announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase plan on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which allows the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 25th. The information services provider reported $13.06 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' 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 Monday, February 4th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Alphabet.

Alphabet will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, February 4th at 4:30 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

27 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Alphabet's stock. Their predictions range from $1,040.00 to $1,500.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's stock price to reach $1,306.8182 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 20.7% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Alphabet.

27 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 26 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Headlines about GOOG stock have been trending negative on Wednesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a media sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the information services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

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

Alphabet's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include USS Investment Management Ltd (0.04%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (0.03%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.02%), Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.01%) and Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL (0.01%). 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 Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, KAMES CAPITAL plc, Waverton Investment Management Ltd, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, Sit Investment Associates Inc., Bainco International Investors, Centre Asset Management LLC and First Hawaiian Bank. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including USS Investment Management Ltd, Factory Mutual Insurance Co., QCI Asset Management Inc. NY, Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, RPG Investment Advisory LLC, Confluence Investment Management LLC, Addenda Capital Inc. and Founders Capital Management 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 $1,082.3340.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $726.98 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.