| Company name | Alphabet Inc Class A |
| 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 | Good |
| P/E growth | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Good |
| Price growth | Fair |
| R&D growth | Good |
| Income growth | Fair |
| Assets growth | Poor |
| Return on Assets growth | Poor |
| Income / Rev growth | Fair |
| TWCA Plus | Good |
| Standard TWCA | Good |
| Weighted ann. stock price increase | Good |
ANALYSIS
| Confident Investor Rating | Fair |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $1741.1 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $1179.74 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $1162.43 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $1463.34 |
The following company description is from Reuters: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/googl/profile?p=googl
Alphabet Inc. provides online advertising services in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America. It offers performance and brand advertising services. The company operates through Google and Other Bets segments. The Google segment offers products, such as Ads, Android, Chrome, Google Cloud, Google Maps, Google Play, Hardware, Search, and YouTube, as well as technical infrastructure. It also offers digital content, cloud services, hardware devices, and other miscellaneous products and services. The Other Bets segment includes businesses, including Access, Calico, CapitalG, GV, Verily, Waymo, and X, as well as Internet and television services. Alphabet Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Confident Investor comments: At this time, I think that a Confident Investor can cautiously invest in Alphabet Inc Class A as long as the price is correct and the indicators that I describe in my book The Confident Investor are favorable. Most of the fundamentals of this company are good but there are some concerns.
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How was this analysis of Alphabet Inc Class A 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: $1448.04
- Growth: 0.15
- Current EPS (TTM): $43.15
- P/E: 27.1542541313155
- Future EPS Calc: $86.79
- Future Stock Price Calc: $2356.71
- Target stock price: $1463.33
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I hope that this makes you a Confident Investor.