In a report released today, Michael Levine CFA from Pivotal Research reiterated a Buy rating on Alphabet (GOOGL), with a price target of $1650.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $1450.16, close to its 52-week high of $1450.70.
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Alphabet has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $1480.88, representing a 2.5% upside. In a report issued on January 2, Nomura also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $1560.00 price target.
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Based on Alphabet’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending September 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $40.38 billion and net profit of $7.07 billion. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $39.15 billion and had a net profit of $8.95 billion.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 64 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of GOOGL in relation to earlier this year.
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