Alphabet Inc’s recent filing unveils that its Director Hennessy John L. acquired Company’s shares for reported $0.15 million on Oct 13 ’25. In the deal valued at $242.92 per share,600 shares were bought.
Then, O’Toole Amie Thuener sold 953 shares, generating $229,864 in total proceeds. Upon selling the shares at $241.20, the VP, Chief Accounting Officer now owns 17,294 shares.
Before that, Pichai Sundar sold 32,500 shares. Alphabet Inc shares valued at $7,910,743 were divested by the Chief Executive Officer at a price of $243.41 per share. As a result of the transaction, Pichai Sundar now holds 2,402,119 shares, worth roughly $591.38 million.
Morgan Stanley reiterated its Alphabet Inc [GOOG] rating to an Overweight in a research note published on October 02, 2025; the price target was $270. A number of analysts have revised their coverage, including Jefferies’s analysts, who remained covering the stock and in early October has reiterated a ‘”a Buy”‘ rating for it. Robert W. Baird also remained covering GOOG and reiterated its “an Outperform” recommendation on September 22, 2025. Pivotal Research Group maintained its rating on September 03, 2025. It rated GOOG as “a Buy”.
Price Performance Review of GOOG
On Tuesday, Alphabet Inc [NASDAQ:GOOG] saw its stock jump 0.63% to $246.19. Over the last five days, the stock has lost -0.38%. Alphabet Inc shares have risen nearly 50.87% since the year began. Nevertheless, the stocks have risen 29.27% over the past one year.
How much short interest is there in Alphabet Inc?
A steep rise in short interest was recorded in Alphabet Inc stocks on 2025-09-30, growing by 4.29 million shares to a total of 35.35 million shares. Yahoo Finance data shows the prior-month short interest on 2025-08-29 was 31.06 million shares. There was a rise of 12.12%, which implies that there is a positive sentiment for the stock.
The most recent change occurred on July 24, 2025 when Pivotal Research Group resumed its ‘”a Buy”‘ rating for the stock and retained the price target to $245.
