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Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) is a leading internet content & information business based in the US. It opened the day at $2,741.58 after a previous close of $2,771.74. During the day the price has varied from a low of $2,739.97 to a high of $2,814.84. The latest price was $2,789.61 (25 minute delay). Alphabet is listed on the NASDAQ and employs 150,028 staff. All prices are listed in US Dollars.
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Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Alphabet's share price has had significant positive movement.
Its last close price was $2,789.61, which is 46.82% up on its pre-crash value of $1483.46 and 176.51% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as $1,008.87.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Alphabet shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth $706.27 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth $1.00.
| Open | $2,741.58 |
|---|---|
| High | $2,814.84 |
| Low | $2,739.97 |
| Close | $2,789.61 |
| Previous close | $2,771.74 |
| Change | $17.87 |
| Change % | 0.6447% |
| Volume | 1,483,064 |
| 52-week range | $1,732.83 - $3,019.33 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | $2,895.81 |
| 200-day moving average | $2,657.78 |
| Wall St. target price | $3,334.16 |
| PE ratio | 26.8736 |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $103.81 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $2789.6101 from 2022-01-19
| 1 week (2022-01-13) | 0.64% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2021-12-16) | -3.44% |
| 3 months (2021-10-20) | -1.61% |
| 6 months (2021-07-20) | 10.52% |
| 1 year (2021-01-20) | 48.38% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2020-01-17) | 88.55% |
| 3 years (2019-01-18) | 151.93% |
| 5 years (2017-01-20) | 236.84% |
Valuing Alphabet stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Alphabet's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Alphabet's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 27x. In other words, Alphabet shares trade at around 27x recent earnings.
That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).
Alphabet's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 0.855. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Alphabet's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Alphabet's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $85.2 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Alphabet's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $239.2 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 30.3% |
| Gross profit TTM | $97.8 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 14.01% |
| Return on equity TTM | 30.87% |
| Profit margin | 29.52% |
| Book value | $367.95 |
| Market capitalisation | $1.9 trillion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Alphabet.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 20.35
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Alphabet's overall score of 20.35 (as at 12/31/2018) is pretty good – landing it in it in the 29th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Alphabet is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 3.52/100
Social score: 6.37/100
Governance score: 7.99/100
Controversy score: 4/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Alphabet scored a 4 out of 5 for controversy – the second-lowest score possible, reflecting that Alphabet has a damaged public profile.
Alphabet Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 20.35 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 29.34 |
| Environmental score | 3.52 |
| Social score | 6.37 |
| Governance score | 7.99 |
| Level of controversy | 4 |
We're not expecting Alphabet to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Alphabet's shares were split on a 1998:1000 basis on 2 April 2014. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1998 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Alphabet shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 49.9% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Alphabet shares which in turn could have impacted Alphabet's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Alphabet's shares have ranged in value from as little as $1732.83 up to $3019.3301. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Alphabet's is 1.0583. This would suggest that Alphabet's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in September 1998. Since then, the company has grown to more than 130,000 employees worldwide, with a wide range of popular products and platforms like Search, Maps, Ads, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Google Cloud and YouTube. In October 2015, Alphabet became the parent holding company of Google. .
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