The buying and selling of stock by a company’s insider give investors a sense that the stock will rise or fall in the future. Alphabet Inc shares valued at $8,108,846 were sold by Pichai Sundar on Sep 17 ’25. At $249.50 per share, Pichai Sundar sold 32,500 shares. The insider’s holdings dropped to 2,397,392 shares worth approximately $594.15 million following the completion of this transaction.
Also, PICHAI FAMILY FOUNDATION purchased 4,000 shares, netting a total of over 1,005,680 in proceeds.
Before that, SUNDAR PICHAI had added 32,500 shares to its account. In a trade valued at $8,171,150, the Director bought Alphabet Inc shares for $251.42 each.
As published in a research note from Robert W. Baird on September 22, 2025, Alphabet Inc [GOOG] has been retained to an Outperform and the price target has been revised to $275. Analysts at Pivotal Research Group resumed the stock at ‘”a Buy”‘ outlook in a report released in early September. As of July 24, 2025, Pivotal Research Group has reiterated its “Buy” rating for GOOG. Earlier on October 30, 2024, Seaport Research Partners upgraded its rating. Their new recommendation was “a Buy” for GOOG stock which previously was a “a Neutral”.
Analyzing GOOG Stock Performance
On last trading session, Alphabet Inc [NASDAQ: GOOG] plunged -1.79% to $247.83. The stock’s lowest price that day was $247.22, but it reached a high of $252.96 in the same session. During the last five days, there has been a drop of approximately -0.81%. Over the course of the year, Alphabet Inc shares have jumped approximately 50.53%. Shares of the company reached a 52-week high of $256.70 on 09/19/25 and a 52-week low of $142.66 on 04/07/25.
Support And Resistance Levels for Alphabet Inc (GOOG)
According to the 24-hour chart, there is a support level at 245.71, which, if violated, would cause prices to drop to 243.60. In the upper region, resistance lies at 251.45. The next price resistance is at 255.08. RSI (Relative Strength Index) is 70.64 on the 14-day chart, showing overbought technical sentiment.
Is Alphabet Inc subject to short interest?
Stocks of Alphabet Inc saw a sharp steep in short interest on 2025-08-29 dropping by -3.08 million shares to 31.06 million. Data from Yahoo Finance shows that the short interest on 2025-07-31 was 34.15 million shares. A decline of -9.92% in short interest reflects a positive sentiment towards the stock. Despite the fact that short shares comprise just 1.7 of the overall float, the days-to-cover ratio (short ratio) decline to 1.7.
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In terms of Alphabet Inc share price expectations, FactSet research, analysts set an average price target of 220 in the next 12 months, down nearly -12.82% from the previous closing price of $252.34. Analysts anticipate Alphabet Inc stock to reach 265 by 2025, with the lowest price target being 171. In spite of this, 29 analysts ranked Alphabet Inc stock as Buy at the end of 2025. On October 11, 2024, Scotiabank assigned a price target of “a Sector outperform” to the stock and initiated coverage with a $212.
