Solstein Capital LLC Has $4.75 Million Holdings in Alphabet Inc. $GOOG

Solstein Capital LLC increased its position in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) by 10.2% during the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 19,502 shares of the information services provider’s stock after buying an additional 1,803 shares during the period. Alphabet accounts for about 1.1% of Solstein Capital LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 12th largest holding. Solstein Capital LLC’s holdings in Alphabet were worth $4,750,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Perennial Investment Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Alphabet by 1.0% in the third quarter. Perennial Investment Advisors LLC now owns 23,382 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $5,694,000 after purchasing an additional 241 shares during the last quarter. KCM Investment Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Alphabet by 2.1% during the 3rd quarter. KCM Investment Advisors LLC now owns 151,147 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $36,812,000 after purchasing an additional 3,128 shares during the period. Winch Advisory Services LLC grew its holdings in Alphabet by 0.6% in the 3rd quarter. Winch Advisory Services LLC now owns 64,492 shares of the information services provider’s stock valued at $15,707,000 after buying an additional 403 shares during the last quarter. Amova Asset Management Americas Inc. increased its position in Alphabet by 145.2% in the 3rd quarter. Amova Asset Management Americas Inc. now owns 272,797 shares of the information services provider’s stock worth $66,423,000 after buying an additional 161,541 shares during the period. Finally, Reyes Financial Architecture Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Alphabet by 12.4% during the third quarter. Reyes Financial Architecture Inc. now owns 1,045 shares of the information services provider’s stock worth $255,000 after buying an additional 115 shares during the last quarter. 27.26% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on GOOG shares. Oppenheimer restated an “outperform” rating and issued a $360.00 price objective on shares of Alphabet in a research note on Thursday, February 5th. Cantor Fitzgerald restated a “neutral” rating on shares of Alphabet in a research report on Tuesday, January 20th. UBS Group reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and set a $348.00 price objective (up from $345.00) on shares of Alphabet in a research report on Thursday, February 12th. Pivotal Research reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $420.00 target price (up from $400.00) on shares of Alphabet in a research note on Thursday, February 5th. Finally, Guggenheim reissued a “buy” rating and set a $375.00 target price on shares of Alphabet in a research report on Monday, December 1st. Nine investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have issued a Buy rating, three have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Alphabet has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average target price of $343.90.

Alphabet Price Performance

NASDAQ:GOOG opened at $300.91 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.11, a quick ratio of 2.01 and a current ratio of 2.01. The company has a 50-day moving average of $320.61 and a 200-day moving average of $285.58. Alphabet Inc. has a 52 week low of $142.66 and a 52 week high of $350.15. The company has a market capitalization of $3.64 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.84, a PEG ratio of 1.78 and a beta of 1.10.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February 4th. The information services provider reported $2.82 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.59 by $0.23. Alphabet had a net margin of 32.81% and a return on equity of 35.01%. The business had revenue of $113.83 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $111.24 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $2.15 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 18.0% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that Alphabet Inc. will post 8.89 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Alphabet Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, March 16th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 9th will be paid a $0.21 dividend. This represents a $0.84 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.3%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, March 9th. Alphabet’s dividend payout ratio is currently 7.77%.

Key Stories Impacting Alphabet

Here are the key news stories impacting Alphabet this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Large enterprise deals and product momentum support revenue and TPU/cloud demand — Google Cloud wins (CVS AI health platform) and ongoing Gemini product updates reinforce the company’s commercial AI growth story. CVS taps Google Cloud to roll out AI-powered health platform
• Positive Sentiment: Large infrastructure demand signaled by Meta leasing Google TPUs — multibillion?dollar TPU agreements point to durable cloud revenue from AI training customers. Meta leases Google AI chips
• Positive Sentiment: Strategic partnerships (reported Apple tie?up) could deepen Gemini / cloud integration into iOS ecosystem, raising long?term monetization potential. Gemini lawsuit and Apple deal reframe AI risk/reward
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst support remains constructive — Bank of America reaffirmed a Buy and $370 target, helping underpin bullish expectations for medium?term upside. Bank of America maintains $370 PT
• Neutral Sentiment: Insider selling observed (small share disposals by a director and the CAO) — routine filings show modest reductions that investors monitor but that don’t indicate strategic distress. Insider sale filing
• Neutral Sentiment: Regulatory/legal uncertainty partly settles gameplay — Fortnite returns to Google Play worldwide, but with changed economics from the Epic settlement. That removes distribution uncertainty while altering long?term service revenue. Fortnite returns to Google Play
• Negative Sentiment: Play Store commission cut — Google’s settlement with Epic reduces Play Store fees to roughly 20%, which could lower app?store revenue and margins versus prior assumptions. Google lowers Play Store commissions
• Negative Sentiment: High?profile Gemini lawsuit raises liability and regulatory risk — a wrongful?death claim alleging harmful chatbot guidance increases uncertainty around consumer AI oversight and potential litigation costs. Gemini wrongful?death lawsuit
• Negative Sentiment: Waymo safety/regulatory scrutiny and AI capex concerns — NTSB probes and reminders of heavy AI capital spending weigh on near?term margins and sentiment. Waymo NTSB scrutiny AI capex pressure article

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, major shareholder 2017 Gp L.L.C. Gv sold 1,845,308 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, January 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $19.00, for a total transaction of $35,060,852.00. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, insider John Kent Walker sold 47,574 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $301.45, for a total value of $14,341,182.30. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 13,227 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,987,279.15. This represents a 78.25% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last quarter, insiders sold 2,079,993 shares of company stock valued at $108,745,244. 12.99% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Alphabet Company Profile

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a multinational technology holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Formed in 2015 through a corporate restructuring of Google, Alphabet serves as the parent to Google LLC and a portfolio of businesses collectively known as “Other Bets.” Google was originally founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin; Alphabet is led by CEO Sundar Pichai, who oversees Google and the broader company while the founders remain prominent shareholders and influential figures in the company’s history.

Alphabet’s core business centers on internet search and advertising, with Google Search and the company’s ad platforms (including Google Ads and AdSense) generating the majority of revenue by connecting advertisers with consumers worldwide.