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Don't Buy Alphabet Without Checking Its Fundamentals!

Shares of Technology sector company Alphabet moved -1.5% today, and are now trading at a price of $173.32. The Large-Cap stock's daily volume was 28,495,733 compared to its average volume of 39,623,393. The S&P 500 index returned a -0.0% performance.

Alphabet Inc. offers various products and platforms in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. The company is based in Mountain View and has 185,719 full time employees. Its market capitalization is $2,106,791,297,024. Alphabet currently offers its equity investors a dividend that yields 0.6% per year.

52 analysts are following Alphabet and have set target prices ranging from $160.0 to $250.0 per share. On average, they have given the company a rating of buy. At today's prices, GOOGL is trading -14.13% away from its average analyst target price of $201.84 per share.

Over the last year, GOOGL shares have gone down by -1.7%, which represents a difference of -11.0% when compared to the S&P 500. The stock's 52 week high is $207.05 per share and its 52 week low is $140.53. With average free cash flows of $57.18 Billion that have been growing at an average rate of 14.5% over the last 5 years, Alphabet declining stock performance may not be reflective of the quality of its underlying business.

Date Reported Cash Flow from Operations ($ k) Capital expenditures ($ k) Free Cash Flow ($ k) YoY Growth (%)
2024 125,299,000 52,535,000 72,764,000 4.7
2023 101,746,000 32,251,000 69,495,000 15.81
2022 91,495,000 31,485,000 60,010,000 -10.45
2021 91,652,000 24,640,000 67,012,000 56.41
2020 65,124,000 22,281,000 42,843,000 38.33
2019 54,520,000 23,548,000 30,972,000
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