GOOG Investors - Our Quick Report For You.

By Kim Brooks • Tuesday, December 12 17:00 • Permanent Link

Alphabet logged a -0.8% change during today's evening session, and is now trading at a price of $133.64 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 0.0%. GOOG's trading volume is 26,309,298 compared to the stock's average volume of 21,627,893.

Alphabet trades -8.53% away from its average analyst target price of $146.1 per share. The 10 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $130.0 to $160.0, and on average have given Alphabet a rating of buy.

Anyone interested in buying GOOG should be aware of the facts below:

Alphabet's current price is 161.7% above its Graham number of $51.06, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Alphabet has moved 40.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.0%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 5.23, Alphabet has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.6 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
GOOG has a forward P/E ratio of 20.2 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $6.63 per share
The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 1.2 — a number near or below 1 signifying that Alphabet is fairly valued compared to its estimated growth potential
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 6.13 compared to its sector average of 7.92
Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America.
Based in Mountain View, the company has 182,381 full time employees and a market cap of $1.66 Trillion.

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