Here Are Some Essential Facts About Alphabet

By Harris Dyer • Tuesday, December 12 17:01 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Alphabet, a Software company whose shares moved -0.6% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Alphabet has moved 39.4% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.0%
GOOGL has an average analyst rating of buy and is -12.84% away from its mean target price of $152.04 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $5.22
Alphabet has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $6.69 and its forward P/E ratio is 19.8
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 6.08 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Alphabet is part of the Technology sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 35.0 and an average P/B of 7.92
GOOGL has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 46.0% and gross profit margins of 0.6%
The company has a free cash flow of $70.76 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Alphabet Inc. offers 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 provides 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, cybersecurity, data, analytics, AI, and machine learning, 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. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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