Alphabet Stock Forecast, Price & News

Alphabet's stock was trading at $1,215.41 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, GOOG stock has increased by 20.1% and is now trading at $1,459.99.
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26 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Alphabet in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings, 23 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Alphabet is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, October 26th 2020.
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Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced its earnings results on Thursday, July, 30th. The information services provider reported $10.13 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $8.43 by $1.70. The information services provider earned $31.60 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $30.58 billion. Alphabet had a return on equity of 15.62% and a net margin of 18.99%.
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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.

26 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Alphabet's shares. Their forecasts range from $1,500.00 to $1,975.00. On average, they expect Alphabet's share price to reach $1,698.25 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 16.3% from the stock's current price.
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News headlines about GOOG stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Alphabet earned a media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the information services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.
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Alphabet saw a increase in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 2,290,000 shares, an increase of 42.2% from the August 15th total of 1,610,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,810,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.3 days. Currently, 0.8% of the company's shares are sold short.
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Some companies that are related to Alphabet include Omnicom Group (OMC), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), CLEAR CHANNEL O/SH (CCO), National CineMedia (NCMI) and MDC Partners (MDCA).
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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), salesforce.com (CRM), Mastercard (MA) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

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

Alphabet's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (3.33%), BlackRock Inc. (2.99%), FMR LLC (1.18%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.55%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.23%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.21%). Company insiders that own Alphabet stock include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, Capitalg Lp, David C Drummond, John L Hennessy, L John Doerr and Sundar Pichai.
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GOOG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Advisor Group Holdings Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., FMR LLC, Toronto Dominion Bank, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., GQG Partners LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, and Sanders Capital LLC. Company insiders that have sold Alphabet company stock in the last year include Amie Thuener O'toole, Ann Mather, Capitalg Lp, David C Drummond, and John L Hennessy.
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GOOG stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Nordea Investment Management AB, APG Asset Management N.V., California Public Employees Retirement System, Himalaya Capital Management LLC, Achmea Investment Management B.V., and BlackRock Inc..
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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, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of GOOG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $1,459.99.

Alphabet has a market capitalization of $993.03 billion and generates $161.86 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $34.34 billion in net income (profit) each year or $51.56 on an earnings per share basis. Alphabet employs 98,771 workers across the globe.

The official website for Alphabet is 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.