Alphabet - GOOG Stock Forecast, Price & News

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 19 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" GOOG shares.
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20 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Alphabet's shares. Their GOOG share price forecasts range from $115.00 to $196.25. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $146.59 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 46.8% from the stock's current price.
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Alphabet's stock was trading at $144.6795 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, GOOG stock has decreased by 31.0% and is now trading at $99.89.
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Alphabet saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 33,660,000 shares, an increase of 11.6% from the October 31st total of 30,150,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 27,110,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.2 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 7th 2023.
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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 25th. The information services provider reported $1.06 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.25 by $0.19. The information services provider had revenue of $69.09 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $70.67 billion. Alphabet had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 26.41% and a net margin of 23.75%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 6.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.40 EPS.
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Shares of Alphabet split before market open on Monday, July 18th 2022. The 20-1 split was announced on Tuesday, February 1st 2022. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, July 15th 2022. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 2,000 shares after the split.

4,614 employees have rated Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai on Glassdoor.com. Sundar Pichai has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Sundar Pichai in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Alphabet investors own include Netflix (NFLX), NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Walt Disney (DIS), Visa (V), Intel (INTC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Salesforce (CRM) and Mastercard (MA).

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

Alphabet's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (3.26%), BlackRock Inc. (2.82%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (1.57%), State Street Corp (1.52%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (0.49%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.44%). Insiders that own company stock include 2016 Gp LLC Gv, 2017 Gp LLC Gv, 2019 Gp LLC Gv, 2021 Gp LLC Gv, Aaron Boynton, Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, Brin Sergey, Capitalg 2014 Lp, Capitalg Lp, David C Drummond, Frances Arnold, John Kent Walker, John Kent Walker, John L Hennessy, John L Hennessy, Kavitark Ram Shriram, Lawrence Page, Philipp Schindler, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai.
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Shares of GOOG stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of GOOG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $99.89.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) has a market capitalization of $1.29 trillion and generates $257.64 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $76.03 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.0355 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 156,500 workers across the globe.

Alphabet's mailing address is 1600 AMPHITHEATRE PARKWAY, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA, 94043. The official website for the company is www.google.com. The information services provider can be reached via phone at (650) 253-0000 or via fax at 650-253-0001.