Currently, there are 5.69B common shares owned by the public and among those 5.28B shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 287 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 59 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 5,157,434 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 228 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 8,522,941 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 144.46, down -1.51%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -5.63% and 3.94% over the past three months. GOOG shares are trading 0.59% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 45.99% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $88.86 and touched a high of $155.20 over the same period. GOOG has an average intraday trading volume of 21.97 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -4.17%, -0.66%, and 7.20% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares accounts for 27.77% of the company’s 5.69B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $1762.50B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.06. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 24.42, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $5.81. The company has a PEG of 1.27 and a Quick Ratio of 2.10 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.11. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.81% over the week and 1.77% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Alphabet Inc (GOOG) will achieve an EPS of $Alphabet Inc. for the current quarter, $140.52 for the next quarter and $Stocks for Type. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $Tidal Trust II while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $Gladstone Commercial Corporatio. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 17.29%, and 15.20% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 19.25% over the next five years, compared to 21.56% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the GOOG, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Raymond James stated their Outperform rating for the stock in a research note on December 20, 2023, with the firm’s price target at $150.
