Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Is A Blank Check For Growth

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 0.19% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $183.95.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $183.61, falling within a range of $183.14 and $184.5. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.034 whereas the PE ratio is 22.86 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $207.05, and the low was $130.66. On the whole, GOOGL has fluctuated by -3.01% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Alphabet Inc currently standing at about $2252.37 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.60, with its dividend yield at 0.33%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 390.01B, with a low estimate of 86.4B and a high estimate of 91.27B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 89.33B.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that GOOGL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.70, with the price of GOOGL currently trading nearly -5.33% and -3.63% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 40.32, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.13% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.07%. Furthermore, Alphabet Inc (GOOGL)’s beta value is 1.01, and its average true range (ATR) is 5.03.

A comparison of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. GOOGL showed an intraday change of 0.19% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 24.69%%.

Data on historical trading for Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 34.35 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 28.98 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 5.83 billion shares outstanding.

Nearly 52.38% of Alphabet Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 38.01% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 65.51 million shares as on 2025-01-15, resulting in a short ratio of 2.5. According to the data, the short interest in Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) stood at 112.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-15; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-13 reached 70.96 million. The stock has fallen by -2.83% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the GOOGL stock heading into the next quarter.

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