In today’s recent session, 5.31 million shares of the Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) have been traded, and its beta is 1.03. Most recently the company’s share price was $174.99, and it changed around -$0.31 or -0.17% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $2150.40B. GOOGL at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $191.75, offering almost -9.58% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $127.90, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 26.91% since then. We note from Alphabet Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 24.87 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 24.44 million.

Alphabet Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.49. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 60 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 13 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 11 recommended GOOGL as a Hold, whereas 36 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) trade information

Instantly GOOGL has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -0.17% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 180.96 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 3.3%. The company’s shares are currently up 25.27% year-to-date, but still down -3.65% over the last five days. On the other hand, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is 6.66% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 64.26 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.61 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $182, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 3.85% from its current value. Analyst projections state that GOOGL is forecast to be at a low of $59 and a high of $240.

Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) estimates and forecasts

Alphabet Inc share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have fallen -1.61 percent over the past six months and at a 37.93% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 9.30%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 21.56%. Alphabet Inc earnings are expected to increase by 38.09% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 15.85% per year for the next five years.

GOOGL Dividends

Alphabet Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Jan-28. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 0.23 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.40. It is important to note, however, that the 0.23% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Major holders

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.25% of Alphabet Inc shares, and 80.69% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 80.90%. Alphabet Inc stock is held by 5864.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 4.0626% of the shares, which is about 504.37 million shares worth $91.87 billion.

BLACKROCK INC., with 3.3917% or 421.08 million shares worth $76.7 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Jun 30, 2024. The former held 185.84 shares worth $32.6 billion, making up 3.18% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 150.76 shares worth around $26.45 billion, which represents about 2.58% of the total shares outstanding.