| 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 | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $1192.52 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $1314.43 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $659.59 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $1207.31 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=googl
Alphabet Inc. is a holding company. The Company’s businesses include Google Inc. (Google) and its Internet products, such as Access, Calico, CapitalG, GV, Nest, Verily, Waymo and X. The Company’s segments include Google and Other Bets. The Google segment includes its Internet products, such as Search, Ads, Commerce, Maps, YouTube, Google Cloud, Android, Chrome and Google Play, as well as its hardware initiatives. The Google segment is engaged in advertising, sales of digital content, applications and cloud offerings, and sales of hardware products. The Other Bets segment is engaged in the sales of Internet and television services through Google Fiber, sales of Nest products and services, and licensing and research and development (R&D) services through Verily. It offers Google Assistant, which allows users to type or talk with Google; Google Maps, which helps users navigate to a store, and Google Photos, which helps users store and organize all of their photos.
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: $972.08
- Growth: 0.15
- Current EPS (TTM): $27.62
- P/E: 35
- Future EPS Calc: $55.55
- Future Stock Price Calc: $1944.37
- Target stock price: $1207.3
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