NASDAQ:GOOG - Alphabet Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Shares of Alphabet 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 payable to shareholders after the closing bell 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 initiated a stock buyback program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which allows the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are generally a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced its earnings results on Thursday, October, 25th. The information services provider reported $13.06 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $10.41 by $2.65. The information services provider had revenue of $27.16 billion for the quarter. Alphabet had a return on equity of 19.40% and a net margin of 14.45%. 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 shares. Their predictions range from $1,040.00 to $1,500.00. On average, they expect Alphabet's share price to reach $1,306.8182 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 19.0% 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.

Media stories about GOOG stock have trended positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a media sentiment score of 2.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the information services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

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), 58.com (WUBA), FactSet Research Systems (FDS), Tripadvisor (TRIP), Snap (SNAP) and Sabre (SABR).

Alphabet's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include USS Investment Management Ltd (0.04%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (0.03%), BTIM Corp. (0.02%), KAMES CAPITAL plc (0.02%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (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, Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc., Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, Sit Investment Associates Inc., Bainco International Investors and Patten & Patten Inc. TN. 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 Simplex Trading LLC, USS Investment Management Ltd, Factory Mutual Insurance Co., QCI Asset Management Inc. NY, Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, RPG Investment Advisory LLC, Oakbrook Investments LLC and Confluence Investment 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 $1,098.26.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $752.22 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.