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

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

Alphabet shares split on the morning of Thursday, April 3rd 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, February 10th 2014. The newly issued 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 declared that its board has approved a stock repurchase 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 purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates 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 return on equity of 15.79% and a net margin of 14.19%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 25.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $7.73 earnings per share. 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.

39 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Alphabet's stock. Their forecasts range from $725.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they expect Alphabet's share price to reach $1,104.0667 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

Alphabet saw a decrease in short interest in the month of April. As of April 13th, there was short interest totalling 2,615,420 shares, a decrease 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 days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Currently, 0.9% of the shares of the company are sold short.

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

News stories about GOOG stock have trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a news sentiment score of 0.12 on Accern's scale. They also gave press coverage about the information services provider an impact score of 47.61 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

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 $1,019.98.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $741.65 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.