Alphabet Inc. Plans Quarterly Dividend of $0.21 (NASDAQ:GOOGL)

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 4th. Investors of record on Monday, March 9th will be given a dividend of 0.21 per share by the information services provider on Monday, March 16th. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.3%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, March 9th.

Alphabet has a dividend payout ratio of 8.3% indicating that its dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Equities research analysts expect Alphabet to earn $10.23 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $0.84 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 8.2%.

Alphabet Stock Down 0.5%

GOOGL traded down $1.79 on Thursday, hitting $331.25. 87,296,409 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 35,326,066. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $321.32 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $268.82. The company has a current ratio of 1.75, a quick ratio of 1.75 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06. Alphabet has a twelve month low of $140.53 and a twelve month high of $349.00. The company has a market cap of $4.00 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.67, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.05 and a beta of 1.09.

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 4th. The information services provider reported $2.82 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.57 by $0.25. Alphabet had a return on equity of 35.00% and a net margin of 32.23%.The business had revenue of $113.83 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $111.24 billion. On average, equities analysts predict that Alphabet will post 8.9 earnings per share for the current year.

Key Stories Impacting Alphabet

Here are the key news stories impacting Alphabet this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q4 earnings beat and AI/cloud momentum — Alphabet topped revenue and EPS estimates, reported ~48% cloud growth, a >$70B cloud run‑rate and strong Gemini adoption, reinforcing durable ad + cloud monetization. Alphabet Crushes Earnings — MarketBeat
• Positive Sentiment: Enterprise wins/backlog support future revenue — Cloud backlog jumped materially and new enterprise customers (reported wins) validate Google Cloud’s AI positioning and revenue visibility. Zacks: Q4 cloud and revenue details
• Positive Sentiment: Heavy analyst upgrade activity — Multiple firms raised price targets and reiterated buys/overweights (JPMorgan, Stifel, Deutsche, RBC, Needham, Pivotal, Mizuho and others), signaling sustained Wall Street confidence in the AI/cloud growth story. Analyst coverage roundup — Benzinga
• Neutral Sentiment: Strategic partnerships and product traction — Deals such as a multi‑year Liberty Global AI/cloud partnership and enterprise customer deployments (e.g., Humana) support long‑term monetization but have limited immediate stock impact. Reuters: Liberty Global deal
• Neutral Sentiment: Minor insider selling disclosed — A small CAO sale was reported; such transactions are routine and not clearly directional for a large cap stock. SEC filing: insider sale
• Negative Sentiment: Massive 2026 capex forecast unsettled markets — Alphabet guided to $175–$185B of capex to scale AI compute and data centers; the size of the outlay raised near‑term profitability and cash‑use concerns and was the principal reason shares fell in premarket/early trading. Reuters: Alphabet capex guidance
• Negative Sentiment: Immediate market reaction — Despite the beat, the capex surprise drove a sharp premarket/early session pullback and wider tech weakness; some traders treated the quarter as “earnings beat + guidance risk.” Investopedia: spending could double — market reaction

Alphabet Company Profile

Alphabet Inc is the holding company created in 2015 to organize Google and a portfolio of businesses developing technologies beyond Google’s core internet services. Its principal operations are led by Google, which builds and operates consumer-facing products such as Google Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Workspace, as well as advertising platforms (Google Ads and AdSense) that historically generate the majority of its revenue. Google also develops consumer hardware (Pixel phones, Nest smart-home devices, Chromecast) and developer and distribution platforms such as Google Play.

Beyond Google’s consumer and advertising businesses, Alphabet invests in enterprise and infrastructure offerings through Google Cloud, which provides cloud computing, data analytics and productivity services to businesses and institutions.