Alphabet shares close over $ 200 for the first time from divided shares
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc.
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Alphabet The shares closed for the first time in the amount of $ 200 per share, as investors are increasingly becoming lush to the options of the company in artificial intelligence.
The shares received 1.1% on Friday and just over 2% in a week closed at $ 200.21. It is almost 6% at the age of 2025, while Nasdaq increased by 3.3% this year.
The fresh Alphabet record is on a division. Company implemented The 20-Z-1 shares split in 2022. At the time of this announcement, the shares were traded at about $ 2750, which was $ 137.50 after the division.
Tech -Ove megacap companies start reporting earnings next week, with Microsoft,, Target and Tesla scheduled to announce the results on Wednesday, followed by Apple Thursday. Alphabet Is planned to report the fourth quarter’s score on February 4th.
The income of the alphabet in Third quarter It increased 15% compared to a year earlier, accelerating with about 11% growth in the same period 2024. In the third quarter, the company made $ 88.3 billion sales and recorded a record cloud revenue.
Although the alphabet faces increased competition for progress in the generative AI, especially from Openai, analysts generally view Google as a winner in AI, because the company adds new features to products in its portfolio.
In a Friday report, Morgan Stanley pointed to the company’s progress for their AI agent products, Project Astra and Project Mariner, as well as his large language model Gemini 2.0 published in 2024. Still, the company said that “Hull to Hurtle and scale” is his “high” products are “high”.
At 2025 Meeting a strategy With employees last month, Google managers said they expect one year of increased competition, regulatory obstacles and progress in AI. Despite the accident accidents in the first half of 2024, the second half of the year had a number of important AI products.
The alphabet shares have received 35%in the last year. Among the technological companies with the highest value, the best performer is Nvidia, which is 132%, followed by Tesla with 96%. Meta and Amazon also surpassed the alphabet, while Apple and Microsoft are weaker. Nasdaq has received 29%in the last year.
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