NASDAQ
343.68USD
+4.32 (+1.27%)
We have scored 104 news catalysts on Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) over the past 12 months. The biggest single-day move next to one of them came Mar 28, 2026, when GOOG closed −2.5%: “Look Beyond Skyrocketing Gas Prices! If a Stock Market Crash Takes Shape Under President Donald Trump, the Fed Is Likely to Be the Catalyst.”. Coverage across the window leans positive (average ticker sentiment +0.13). Most of the impact sits in sector technology and forward growth expectations.
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Market cap
4.2T
P/E
—
EPS
—
Beta
1.22
52W range
236.685-404.47
Day range
340.50–345.96
Open
344.91
Prev close
339.36
Volume
14.7M
Avg volume
20.3M
Dividend
0.86
IPO
2004-08-19
Analysts publish price targets on GOOG, and they disagree. Where the share price actually sits among them shows which of their arguments the market is buying — and which it is ignoring.
20 analyst price targets from $350 to $515
as of 2026-09-02
The market is 23% below the median target — more cautious than the analysts.
The reconstruction
Daily OHLCV with SMA overlays and session pivots. Draw your levels and trendlines on it, or ask the AI analyst what the price is reacting to.
Suppliers, customers, partners and competitors, derived from what the news actually says about Alphabet Inc. — not a sector bucket. Click an edge to see the articles that established the link.
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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.
The price at $344 sits at the absolute bottom of the published analyst targets, 23% below the median, meaning the market has fully absorbed the risk of surging capital expenditures and negative free cash flow, and refuses to pay for the upside of Alphabet's AI-driven cloud growth.
What the disagreement turns on
Does the massive capital expenditure on AI infrastructure generate profitable revenue growth in Google Cloud fast enough to offset the current cash burn, and the available unit volume data can track the revenue side but cannot measure the return on that spending.
The price pays for
It declines to pay for
Written by a language model from the published models, the reported segments and a reverse-DCF — not a recommendation, and not a house view.
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