By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Google shares have slipped this week, but investors ought to look past the Google stock price's latest hiccup.
The company continues to be an innovator and its stock an outperformer.
Here's why we're bullish on GOOGL...
By Jack Delaney, Sr. Cannabis Editor, Money Morning - • Print | Email
The GOOGL stock price is up over 33% in the last 12 months, but the company is lagging behind in the cloud-computing war.
In fact, the tech giant only has 4% of the market.
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - • Print | Email
Alphabet stock is the Money Morning Pick of the Week.
Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL, GOOG) is still better-known as Google, which now is a wholly owned subsidiary of the parent company created last fall.
The stock is up 26% over the last eight months as earnings have outperformed.
By Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Map Report - • Print | Email
Alphabet Inc.'s Q4 2015 earnings surpassed expectations for both revenue and profits. That's great… considering the best is yet to come.
Analysts are having trouble with something Google calls "other bets" and the fact that those investments cost the company a whopping $3.5 billion in losses.
A lot of individual investors, meanwhile, find it hard to imagine GOOGL stock going too much higher, let alone a lot higher.
Both groups are missing something really critical that we talk about all the time...
By Cameron Saucier, Associate Editor, Money Morning - • Print | Email
In its latest Q4 earnings report, Alphabet beat all analyst expectations and grew its revenue 18% over the year. Alphabet continues to prove its ability to turn a profit even as the global economy remains sluggish.
Nearly four weeks ago, Money Morning Technical Trading Specialist D.R. Barton predicted on CNBC that Alphabet stock would outperform its sector in early 2016.
Barton was on CNBC again Monday to talk about why Alphabet stock is doing better than the broader markets. GOOG is now up 1.6% for the year, with the Dow down about 8%.
Here's the one big reason Alphabet stock is up - and why shares will continue this rise in 2016...
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - • Print | Email
Alphabet stock has hit a milestone only a select few companies ever reach.
On Tuesday morning Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL), formerly known as Google Inc., dethroned Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) as the most valuable company on the planet following a strong Q4 earnings beat.
But what's remarkable is that Alphabet has reached this pinnacle with so much growth potential ahead of it.
Here's how Alphabet became the world's most valuable company...
By Jack Delaney, Sr. Cannabis Editor, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Google will release Q3 earnings for 2015 on Oct. 22.
Even before the earnings, investors want to know if they should buy Google stock today.
Read on to learn if this tech company can earn GOOG stock owners a big pay day...
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - • Print | Email
A Google event today (Tuesday) served as a showcase for the tech giant's latest versions of its Chromecast streaming video device, its Nexus smartphones, and its Android operating system.
While the phones weren't anything special, the Chromecast announcements gave us a window into a much larger Google strategy.
Here's what happened at the Google event, and why it matters...
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - • Print | Email
How does Google make money?
Anyone who's ever done search on Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL, GOOG) knows it costs nothing to do so. The same goes for most Google services, such as Google Docs, Google Maps, and Gmail. All free.
And yet in 2014, Google raked in $14.44 billion in profit on $66 billion in revenue.
Here's how Google makes money - and lots of it...
By Michael A. Robinson, Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - • Print | Email
I've been saying for some time now that Wall Street and the mainstream media need to take a decidedly different view of Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL).
With the market tumbling this week, more than ever, we need to be on the hunt for quality stocks – ones that can beat this sideways market. And now that Google has announced a new corporate structure, complete with a new name, it's poised to crush the market over at least the next three years.
Today I'll show you how to play it...
