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

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 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 has initiated a stock repurchase program on Friday, February 2nd 2018, which permits the company to buyback $8,589,870,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April, 23rd. The information services provider reported $9.93 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $9.28 by $0.65. The information services provider had revenue of $31.15 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $30.28 billion. Alphabet had a net margin of 11.42% and a return on equity of 14.94%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 25.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $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 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Alphabet's stock. Their predictions range from $725.00 to $1,350.00. On average, they anticipate Alphabet's stock price to reach $1,104.0667 in the next year. 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) and TripAdvisor (TRIP).

Headlines about GOOG stock have trended positive on Tuesday, according to Accern Sentiment. Accern scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a media sentiment score of 0.25 on Accern's scale. They also gave media stories about the information services provider an impact score of 46.46 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate 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 $1,017.72.

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.