| Company name | Alphabet Inc |
| Stock ticker | GOOGL |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]GOOGL[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
MANAGEMENT EXECUTION
| Employee productivity | Good |
| Sales growth | Good |
| EPS growth | Fair |
| P/E growth | Fair |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $877.92 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $927.89 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $480.21 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $869.08 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=googl
Alphabet Inc. is a holding company. The Company holds interests in Google Inc. (Google). The Company’s segments include Google and Other Bets. Google segment includes Internet products, such as Search, Ads, Commerce, Maps, YouTube, Apps, Cloud, Android, Chrome, Google Play, and hardware products, including Chromecast, Chromebooks and Nexus, which are sold by the Company. Its technical infrastructure and Virtual Reality are also included in Google segment. Google segment is engaged in advertising, sales of digital content, applications and cloud services, as well as sale of Google branded hardware. The Other Bets segment consists of various operating segments and includes businesses, such as Access/Google Fiber, Calico, Nest, Verily, GV, Google Capital, X and other initiatives. Other Bets segment is engaged in the sale of Nest hardware products, Internet and television services through Google Fiber, and licensing and research and development (R&D) services through Verily.
Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Alphabet Inc.
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How was this analysis of Alphabet Inc calculated?
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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:
- Stock price at the time of the calculation: $765.84
- Growth: 0.13
- Current EPS (TTM): $23.74
- P/E: 32
- Future EPS Calc: $43.73
- Future Stock Price Calc: $1399.66
- Target stock price: $869.07
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