Sometimes all you have time for in the morning is a quick look at where your favorite stock is trading. That's why here we put together all your key Alphabet stock info for today, August 19, 2017. You'll also get an overall picture of how GOOGL stock has traded over the past year. First we'll look at where GOOGL stock ended the last trading session: $926.18. Alphabet shares slipped 0.16% or $1.48 from the previous day's close. Here's how the current Alphabet price compares to 52-week highs and lows... Now GOOGL is trading at a higher price than it was last year at this time, with the share price higher by 15.38%.

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The Alphabet stock price 52-week high is $1,008.61. That was hit on 6/06/2017. The GOOGL stock 52-week low is $743.59, reached on 11/14/2016. Another number to note - GOOGL trading volume yesterday was 1,695,600. That's higher than Alphabet stock's average daily trading volume of 1,337,400. Let's look at Alphabet's market cap, which is shares outstanding multiplied by Alphabet's share price. Alphabet has a market cap of 641,731,584,000. That means Alphabet has a mega market cap, because it's over 200 billion. As of April 2016, Apple has the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of Alphabet stock is 34.28. That's smaller than the March 2016 S&P 500 P/E ratio of about 23. To really gauge if this stock's P/E is high or low, you should compare GOOGL to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of GOOGL is 27.55. Beta - how closely the stock trades with the overall market, with a beta of 1 meaning it trades in step with the broader index -- for Alphabet is 0.99. Alphabet stock does not pay a dividend right now. Most stocks considered "dividend stocks" have a yield of 2% or more. Every day we publish Alphabet stock news and coverage on a handful of other key stocks we're watching now so you can maximize profits. To get new info and stock news on GOOGL and other companies you are interested in, sign up for Money Morning - it's free.

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