Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) Stock

About Alphabet Inc.

Alphabet Inc. operates globally, providing a wide array of products and digital platforms to customers across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Canada, and Latin America. The company's business is organized into three primary segments: Google Services, Google Cloud, and Other Bets. The Google Services division delivers a broad spectrum of consumer-facing offerings, which include its advertising products, the Android operating system, Chrome browser, various hardware devices, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Play, Search functionality, and YouTube. This segment also generates revenue through the sale of applications, in-app purchases, and digital content via Google Play and YouTube, alongside device sales and consumer subscriptions for YouTube services. Conversely, the Google Cloud segment furnishes enterprise-grade solutions such as infrastructure, cybersecurity, database management, analytics, artificial intelligence, and other professional services. This encompasses the Google Workspace suite, a collection of cloud-native communication and collaboration tools for businesses, including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, and Meet, among other offerings tailored for corporate clients. The Other Bets segment is dedicated to developing nascent ventures, particularly those focused on healthcare-related and internet services. Established in 1998, Alphabet Inc. maintains its corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California.

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 $353.47 with a market capitalization of $4.29T. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 30.26, price-to-book of 11.56, price-to-sales of 10.68. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $149.49 and $375.35, and currently trades 5.8% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.23%.

On profitability, Alphabet Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 38.88% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 31.10%, an operating margin of 32.05%, a net profit margin of 37.91%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Alphabet Inc. reported annual revenue of $403.0B, 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 0.19 — 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 an average daily trading volume of 22,150,000 shares, a beta of 1.24.

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