Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is set to post its quarterly earnings results after the market closes on Monday, February 1st. Analysts expect Alphabet to post earnings of $8.10 per share for the quarter.

A number of equities research analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Nomura upgraded shares of Alphabet to a “top pick” rating and boosted their price objective for the stock from $875.00 to $900.00 in a report on Wednesday, December 9th. Barclays restated a “buy” rating on shares of Alphabet in a report on Tuesday, December 1st. Evercore ISI boosted their price objective on shares of Alphabet from $800.00 to $840.00 in a report on Friday, October 23rd. B. Riley restated a “buy” rating and issued a $853.00 price objective (up from $778.00) on shares of Alphabet in a report on Friday, October 23rd. Finally, Vetr lowered shares of Alphabet from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $815.27 price objective for the company. in a report on Wednesday, December 30th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and forty-four have assigned a buy rating to the company. The company presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $834.75.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) traded up 1.74% during midday trading on Friday, reaching $761.35. 3,790,395 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged. Alphabet Inc has a 12-month low of $521.72 and a 12-month high of $798.69. The company has a market cap of $523.60 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.09. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $750.90 and a 200 day moving average price of $706.29.

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Winslow Evans & Crocker Inc. boosted its stake in Alphabet by 15.2% in the fourth quarter. Winslow Evans & Crocker Inc. now owns 3,552 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,763,000 after buying an additional 468 shares during the last quarter. Wright Investors Service Inc. boosted its stake in Alphabet by 41.6% in the fourth quarter. Wright Investors Service Inc. now owns 1,638 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,274,000 after buying an additional 481 shares during the last quarter. TIAA CREF Trust Co. FSB MO boosted its stake in Alphabet by 3.4% in the fourth quarter. TIAA CREF Trust Co. FSB MO now owns 40,366 shares of the company’s stock worth $31,405,000 after buying an additional 1,336 shares during the last quarter. Trust Co. of Toledo NA OH boosted its stake in Alphabet by 1.4% in the fourth quarter. Trust Co. of Toledo NA OH now owns 1,647 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,282,000 after buying an additional 22 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Trillium Asset Management LLC boosted its stake in Alphabet by 1.4% in the fourth quarter. Trillium Asset Management LLC now owns 53,920 shares of the company’s stock worth $41,951,000 after buying an additional 742 shares during the last quarter.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is a collection of Companies. The Company’s collection include Calico, Google’s health and longevity effort; Nest its connected home business; Fiber, its gigabit internet arm; and its investment divisions such as Google Ventures and Google Capital, and incubator projects, such as Google X. These will be managed separately in Alphabet. On October 2, 2015, Google implemented a holding company reorganization pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the Merger Agreement), dated as of October 2, 2015, among Google, Alphabet and Maple Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation (Merger Sub), which resulted in Alphabet owning all of the outstanding capital stock of Google. Pursuant to the Alphabet Merger, Merger Sub, a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Google, merged with and into Google, with Google surviving as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet.

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