Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) Stock

About Alphabet Inc.

Alphabet Inc. is led by CEO Sundar Pichai, employs 185,719 people, headquartered in Mountain View, US, publicly traded since 2004.

Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) stock trades at $344.86 with a market capitalization of $4.19T. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 16.94, price-to-book of 6.47, price-to-sales of 9.28. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $236.69 and $404.47, and currently trades 14.7% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.26%.

On profitability, Alphabet Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 50.84% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 18.57%, an operating margin of 32.05%, a net profit margin of 54.77%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Alphabet Inc. reported annual revenue of $402.8B, net profit of $132.2B, revenue has compounded at 17.2% a year over the last five years, profit at 26.8% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 2.01, total assets of $595.3B, $30.7B in cash and equivalents.

GOOG has a beta of 1.22.