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Alphabet Inc Class A is an internet content & information business based in the US. Alphabet shares (GOOGL) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Alphabet employs 186,779 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$282.1 billion.
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Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Alphabet's stock price has had significant negative movement.
Its last market close was $104.78, which is 92.94% down on its pre-crash value of $1483.46 and 862.85% down on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the stocks fell as low as $1008.87.
If you had bought $1,000 worth of Alphabet stocks at the start of February 2020, those stocks 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 $70.20.
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| Latest market close | $104.78 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $83.34 - $149.68 |
| 50-day moving average | $93.52 |
| 200-day moving average | $105.30 |
| Wall St. target price | $124.05 |
| PE ratio | 20.1303 |
| Dividend yield | $0 (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $4.91 |
Historical closes compared with the close of $104.78 from 2023-02-03
| 1 week (2023-01-30) | 8.09% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2023-01-06) | 19.97% |
| 3 months (2022-11-04) | 21.02% |
| 6 months (2022-08-05) | -10.80% |
| 1 year (2022-02-02) | N/A |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2021-02-05) | -94.98% |
| 3 years (2020-02-06) | 1475.97 |
| 5 years (2018-02-06) | 1084.43 |
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 20x. In other words, Alphabet shares trade at around 20x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Alphabet's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.3404. 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 $93.7 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Alphabet's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $282.1 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 27.85% |
| Gross profit TTM | $146.7 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 13.92% |
| Return on equity TTM | 26.89% |
| Profit margin | 23.75% |
| Book value | $19.55 |
| Market capitalisation | $1.3 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.
We're not expecting Alphabet to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Alphabet's shares were split on a 20:1 basis on 17 July 2022. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 20 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Alphabet shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 95% 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 $83.34 up to $149.675. 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 1.0691. 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).
Alphabet Inc. provides various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It operates through Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets segments. The Google Services segment offers products and services, including ads, Android, Chrome, hardware, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. It is also involved in the sale of apps and in-app purchases and digital content in the Google Play store; and Fitbit wearable devices, Google Nest home products, Pixel phones, and other devices, as well as in the provision of YouTube non-advertising services. The Google Cloud segment offers infrastructure, platform, and other services; Google Workspace that include cloud-based collaboration tools for enterprises, such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, and Meet; and other services for enterprise customers. The Other Bets segment sells health technology and internet services.
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