Instant Alert: Google's stock is reaching new highs — here's what Wall Street is saying about the blockbuster quarter

MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS   |   UNSUBSCRIBE   |   VIEW ONLINE   Google's stock is reaching new highs — here's what Wall Street is saying about the blockbuster quarter by Steve Kovach on Apr 28, 2017, 1:07 PM Advertisement Alphabet's market cap swelled to more than $630 billion on Friday following the Google parent company's better-than-expected Q1 results a day earlier.  In addition to growth in advertising revenues, the "other revenue" category saw significant growth in Q1, up 49%, as the company seeks to diversify how it makes money beyond digital ads. Most of those revenues come from Google's cloud services and hardware, like the Pixel phone and Google Home speaker. As Alphabet's stock rose above $900 on Friday, analysts boosted their price targets and heaped praise on Google's growing collection of money-making products and its ability to maintain solid profit margins even as it spends heavily to beat the competition. Here's what analysts are saying about Alphabet, in reaction to the earnings report: SEE ALSO: Google's CEO isn't worried about making money on the company's most futuristic products Barclays: BULLISH Rating: Buy Price target: $1,065 Comment: "Stepping back from the results, Google is in a really good spot right now given its shareholder friendly buybacks, strong pace of innovation, and a lower multiple than its large cap peers. With I/O around the corner and solid momentum into 2Q, we'd add to positions."   Macquarie: BULLISH Rating: Buy Price target: $995 Comment: "There is certainly potential long-term upside from Cloud and many emerging areas such as hardware, AI, and Waymo, but we are reiterating our Outperform rating and raising our target to $995 based mostly on continued core growth." Baird: BULLISH Rating: Buy Price target: $1,100 Comment: "Capital discipline remains a key strength... As Google conti ues to invest in key growth areas including mobile, cloud and ML/AI, management reiterated its focus on maintaining high levels of profitability through a measured approach to capital allocation." See the rest of the story at Business Insider   Share the latest business news with your network:    Email sent to:   |   Manage your email preferences   |   Unsubscribe Terms of Service   |   Privacy Policy Business Insider. 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011