- Prev close
- $350.88
- Day range
- $350.22 – $364.17
- From 52-wk high
- -14.1%
- Next earnings
- in 35 days
Alphabet’s +0.6% finish looks like ordinary noise against a flat broader tape, while its 20.1% revenue growth and 33.1% operating margin keep the picture fundamentally solid.
GOOGL
ALPHABET INC-CL A
As of Sep 20, 2026
72/100
Looks healthyHealth ScoreWhy it moved
The stock’s +0.6% move is modest, while the S&P 500 was -0.1% and the Nasdaq 100 was +0.6%, so the session lines up with the broad growth-tech tape rather than company-specific news. The intraday path was choppy — it opened at $357.305, traded up to $359.44, then faded to a $349.54 close — which reads as a mild reversal, not a stock-specific breakdown.
Normal volatility?
Yes, this looks like ordinary volatility for a stock with beta 1.21, especially when the business is still growing at a strong pace. Revenue is up 0.6% YoY (TTM), the latest quarter is +24.2% YoY, EPS is +115.3% YoY (TTM), and margins are healthy at gross +60.9%, operating +33.1%, and net +54.8%. Valuation is not cheap — PE 17.5, forward PE 19.3, PEG 1.07 — but that PEG of 1.07 means growth is being valued near 1× growth, so the move does not look out of line with the fundamentals; it looks like a normal swing in a large-cap growth name with solid execution.
Earnings preview
The next earnings date is not available this period. The facts here also do not give current consensus revenue or EPS estimates, so I cannot quote expected growth or margin targets for the upcoming print. What the market is likely focused on, based on the available setup, is whether 20.1% TTM revenue growth and 33.1% operating margins remain intact, whether the recent +24.2% latest-quarter revenue pace is sustained, and whether the core ad and cloud businesses keep translating that growth into the +115.3% TTM EPS expansion shown here. Prior post-earnings reaction patterns are not provided in the facts.
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