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

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

Shares of Alphabet split on Thursday, April 3rd 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Monday, February 10th 2014. The newly created shares were distributed 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 approved a stock repurchase program 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 reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 1st. The information services provider reported $9.70 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $10.07 by $0.37. The information services provider had revenue of $32.32 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $31.88 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 11.42% and a return on equity of 14.94%. The business's revenue was up 24.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $9.36 earnings per share. View Alphabet's Earnings History.

Alphabet is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, April, 23rd 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Alphabet.

40 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Alphabet's shares. Their forecasts range from $725.00 to $1,300.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's stock price to reach $1,085.7333 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for Alphabet.

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), TripAdvisor (TRIP), Interxion (INXN), The Stars Group (TSG) and Wix.com (WIX).

Media headlines about GOOG stock have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a media sentiment score of 0.03 on Accern's scale. They also gave media headlines about the information services provider an impact score of 45.70 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

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 $1,069.98.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $745.47 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.