Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) 01 (May 08 - Jul 17)

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3 Stocks With a Crippling Reliance on Google

Search traffic is the name of the game for these 3 stocks...and that's not exactly a good thing

By John Divine

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2015/08/3-stoc ... csSI9IirIU

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Earnings Season Winners — Google (GOOG, GOOGL)

Market Capitalization: $460 billion

Though reporting revenues that were in line with estimates at $17.72 billion, earnings per share absolutely crushed estimates, coming in at $6.99 vs. expectations for $6.70.

New Google CFO Ruth Porat was able to rein in costs by cutting back on traffic acquisition costs, boosting the bottom line and giving Wall Street a reason to believe in Google (GOOG, GOOGL).

GOOG stock responded by immediately jumping 12% in after-hours trading.

But Google wasn’t done just yet. After its blowout earnings, the folks in Mountain View decided to undergo a complete corporate restructuring, creating a parent company named Alphabet that will hold two separate divisions, Google (with its traditional search business, Maps, Apps, Youtube, and Android) and then everything else.

Calico, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Nest, Google X, and Fiber will all operate separately from the core Google business.

Investors — hopeful that the new structures will encourage innovation, encourage M&A activity, and provide more insight into the health of Google’s core business — bought GOOG stock in droves, adding $17 billion to Google’s market cap overnight.

Source: Investor Place

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The ABCs of Google’s Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL)

Google announced a new company last week, but what exactly does it mean?

By Hilary Kramer

Source: Game Changers

http://investorplace.com/2015/08/alphab ... dkKYtIirIU

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Google: New Chrome is faster and will save your battery
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/04/technol ... index.html

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Search giant Google is up nearly 20% over the past two months.

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3 Oversold Stocks to Buy on the Dip: Google (GOOG, GOOGL)

Market Capitalization: $426 billion
% off 2015 highs: -8.3%

Another stock to buy on the dip is Google (GOOG, GOOGL), which probably has the lowest risk/reward of these three names.

Just before markets went bonkers in mid-August, Google made headlines by announcing plans to restructure and hold Google Inc. under an umbrella holding company, Alphabet.

The stock shot up on the news, since investors will now be able to see more clearly the health of Google’s core search business without wondering how much the results were being distorted by investments in self-driving cars, fiber optic networks, Google Glass and other “moonshot” endeavors.

On the heels of that announcement, GOOG jumped from $633 to $660.

Still not fully recovered from the pullback that followed, Google is one of the highest-quality STOCKS TO BUY on the dip, at around $620 per share.

A forward P/E of 18 doesn’t make much sense for one of the most innovative companies in the world. Especially not when the P/E of the entire S&P 500 index is 16.6.

Google deserves a higher multiple for all its potential, and eventually the market will acknowledge that again. It’s best you buy in before Wall Street has that “aha” moment!

Source: Investor Place

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Google: Android Has 1.4B Users

Sundar Pichai, the incoming Chief Executive of Google, mentioned that its operating system Android has increased its new users by 400 million since May 2014 and it now has 1.4 billion users.

The growth mainly comes from the emerging markets. For example, the number of users in Indonesia and Vietnam doubled in the past year.

Source: AAStocks Financial News

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Over a billion Android devices could be at risk of being hacked by listening to an audio file or watching videos, because of a new bug in Google 's (GOOGL) mobile operating system.

Source: CNBC

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Earnings Reports to Watch: Alphabet (GOOGL)

On Thursday, Oct. 22, Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), formerly Google Inc, announces its quarterly earnings. Like most of the tech sector, Alphabet gets a good percentage of its revenues from overseas.

So if “dollar strength” is highlighted by management as a problem, you can bet that we’re going to hear much of the same from other Big Tech releases in the weeks ahead.

But Alphabet is actually a lot more important than that. It was one-fourth of the infamous “FANGs,” Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Google.

These were the four momentum stocks that kept the market averages afloat for much of 2015. Absent their leadership, it’s hard to see the market doing a whole lot for the rest of 2015. As go the FANGs, so goes the market.

So don’t be surprised if Alphabet’s earnings release has an outsized impact on the market this week.

Source: Investor Place

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Stock Buyback Spenders: Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG)

Buyback: $5 billion
Market Cap: $509 billion
YTD Performance: 42.85%

Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG), the company formerly known as Google, is also opening up its wallet as part of a $5 billion buyback endeavor that will begin during the fourth quarter of this year.

Granted, that’s not an earth shattering stock buyback for Alphabet, which presently boasts a market cap of $509 billion and has $70 billion worth of liquid assets at its immediate disposal.

On the other hand, for a proven growing company like Alphabet, a little bit of buyback can go a long way.

Fun fact: Alphabet’s buyback is actually a $5,099,019,513.59 stock buyback plan, which is $1 billion times the square root of 26 … the number of letters in the alphabet.

Source: Investor Place