In recent trading session, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) saw 2.14 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.02. Company’s recent per share price level of $168.37 trading at -$0.86 or -0.51% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $2069.77B. That most recent trading price of GOOGL’s stock is at a discount of -13.89% from its 52-week high price of $191.75 and is indicating a premium of 24.04% from its 52-week low price of $127.90. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 29.74 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 25.78 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Alphabet Inc (GOOGL), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.49. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 39 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 1 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 4 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 34 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 2.11 in the current quarter.
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.51%, in the last five days GOOGL remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Tuesday, 11/26/24 when the stock touched $168.37 price level, adding 0.85% to its value on the day. Alphabet Inc’s shares saw a change of 20.53% in year-to-date performance and have moved 0.44% in past 5-day. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) showed a performance of -3.49% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 68.68 million shares which calculate 2.55 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 182 to the stock, which implies a rise of 7.49% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 59 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 240. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 64.96% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 64.96% for stock’s current value.
Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) estimates and forecasts
Statistics highlight that Alphabet Inc is scoring comparatively higher than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -2.39% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 38.28% while that of industry is 10.30. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 13.90% from the last financial year’s standing.
38 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 96.62B for the same. And 24 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 90B in the next quarter. Company posted 86.31B and 80.54B of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 21.56% during past 5 years. In 2024, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 38.09% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 15.85%.
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.25% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 80.71 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 80.91%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 80.71% institutions for Alphabet Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at GOOGL for having 504.37 million shares of worth $91.87 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 4.0863 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 421.08 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 3.3917 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $76.7 billion.
On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Jun 30, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 185.84 shares of worth $31.32 billion or 3.18% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 153.45 shares on Sep 30, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $25.86 billion in the company or a holder of 2.63% of company’s stock.
