Alphabet Class A (GOOGL) Receives a Rating Update from a Top Analyst


In a report released yesterday, Brent Thill from Jefferies maintained a Buy rating on Alphabet Class A (GOOGL), with a price target of $1850.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $1529.95.

According to TipRanks.com, Thill is a top 25 analyst with an average return of 23.9% and a 77.3% success rate. Thill covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Endurance International, and Zillow Group Class C.

The word on The Street in general, suggests a Strong Buy analyst consensus rating for Alphabet Class A with a $1798.00 average price target, a 17.5% upside from current levels. In a report issued on October 12, Deutsche Bank also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $2020.00 price target.

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Alphabet Class A’s market cap is currently $1040.6B and has a P/E ratio of 34.50. The company has a Price to Book ratio of 5.77.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 59 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is neutral on the stock. Most recently, in August 2020, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of GOOGL bought 2,918 shares for a total of $738,706.

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Alphabet, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the business of acquisition and operation of different companies. It operates through the Google and Other Bets segments. The Google segment includes its main Internet products such as ads, Android, Chrome, hardware, Google Cloud, Google Maps, Google Play, Search, and YouTube. The Other Bets segment consists of businesses such as Access, Calico, CapitalG, GV, Verily, Waymo, and X. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on October 2, 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

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