Alphabet Inc. provides various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America.
Google stock last closed at $166.19, up 1.36% from the previous day, and has decreased 4.59% in one year. It has underperformed other stocks in the Internet Content & Information industry by 0.3 percentage points. Google stock is currently +18.26% from its 52-week low of $140.53, and -19.73% from its 52-week high of $207.05.
There are currently 12.14B shares of GOOGL outstanding. The market capitalization of GOOGL is $2.02T. In the past 24 hours, 42.43M GOOGL shares were traded.
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Out of 31 Equities analysts who give ratings on GOOGL, the consensus analyst rating on Google is a Buy
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Mark Shmulik, a top 5% analyst from Bernstein maintains GOOGL with a hold rating and raises their GOOGL price target from $165.00 to $185.00, on Apr 25, 2025.
Ronald Josey, a top 3% analyst from Citigroup maintains GOOGL with a strong buy rating and raises their GOOGL price target from $195.00 to $200.00, on Apr 25, 2025.
Citigroup's Ronald Josey raised their price target on Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) by 2.6% from $195 to $200 on 2025/04/25. The analyst maintained their Strong Buy rating on the stock.
Alphabet (Google) reported its Q1 2025 earnings.
Visibility into the impact of the macro on the company is still low, but the growth in the quarter's Search revenue shows that Alphabet's Search ads are resilient, Josey told investors.
According to the analyst, YouTube's transition from mix-shift to direct response highlights its progress in monetization.
Josey noted that Google's growing margins catalyzed their "somewhat more optimistic" view of the stock.
For Q1 2025, Alphabet reported:
Management did not provide financial guidance in its press release or earnings presentation.
CEO Sundar Pichai commented: “We’re pleased with our strong Q1 results, which reflect healthy growth and momentum across the business
Underpinning this growth is our unique full-stack approach to AI.
"This quarter was super exciting as we rolled out Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent AI model, which is achieving breakthroughs in performance and is an extraordinary foundation for our future innovation.
"Search saw continued strong growth, boosted by the engagement we’re seeing with features like AI Overviews, which now has 1.5 billion users per month.
"Driven by YouTube and Google One, we surpassed 270 million paid subscriptions.
"And Cloud grew rapidly with significant demand for our solutions.”
Thomas Champion, a top 18% analyst from Piper Sandler maintains GOOGL with a strong buy rating and raises their GOOGL price target from $185.00 to $195.00, on Apr 25, 2025.
Jason Helfstein, a top 1% analyst from Oppenheimer maintains GOOGL with a buy rating and raises their GOOGL price target from $185.00 to $200.00, on Apr 25, 2025.
Laura Martin, a top 1% analyst from Needham reiterates GOOGL with a buy rating and maintains their GOOGL price target from $178.00 to $178.00, on Apr 25, 2025.
You can dive deeper into what analysts are saying on the Google stock forecast page.
Last year, GOOGL earnings were $111.00B. During the past five year, GOOGL's earnings have grown by 29.39% per year. This was slower than the Internet Content & Information industry average of 35.54%.
Last year, GOOGL revenue was $359.71B. Over the last five year, GOOGL's revenue has gone up by 16.63% per year. This was slower than the Internet Content & Information industry average of 17.63%.
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Over the past 12 months, executives and large shareholders at GOOGL have sold more shares than they have bought.
John L. Hennessy, Director of GOOGL, was the latest GOOGL insider to sell. They sold $9,165.83 worth of GOOGL shares on May 13, 2025.
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Google pays a dividend of 0.48%, compared to the Internet Content & Information industry's average dividend yield of 2.88%. If you owned $1,000 worth of GOOGL stock, you would have been paid $4.81 in the past year.
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