Should you buy Alphabet stock now? A total of 98% of analysts consider it a ‘buy’

MarketWatch2021-05-21

Investors love Alphabet’s wide profit margins, fast sales growth and big free cash flow. Even though Alphabet is huge --- it's valued at well over $1 trillion --- first-quarter sales rose 34%. (AFP ...

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55ewell
2021-05-24
55ewell
Like and comment
- kenong62:
  same here please comment n like back
super7white
2021-05-23
super7white
Like and comment pls ☺️
- DukeAlan:
  ok
Skyjieni
2021-05-23
Skyjieni
Waoooo
- DexterLim:
  Yup
Nariousac
2021-05-23
Nariousac
What are your thoughts
KYTyu
2021-05-23
KYTyu
Seems like it still has potential to rise. Waiting for a dip to buy in I guess
- huat168:
  Yes
HYYOONG
2021-05-23
HYYOONG
Somehow can foresee in 10 years time, googlewill stilk be a common verb that everyone uses…
- huat168:
  Perhaps?

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Waiting for a dip to buy in I guess","listText":"Seems like it still has potential to rise. Waiting for a dip to buy in I guess","text":"Seems like it still has potential to rise. Waiting for a dip to buy in I guess","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/133273229","repostId":1180033495,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4422563,"gmtCreate":1621777942562,"gmtModify":1680790477423,"authorId":3577858781887046,"author":{"id":3577858781887046,"authorId":3577858781887046,"name":"huat168","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f4331c579b39f5904bca699993489762","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":133273229,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Yes","text":"Yes","html":"Yes"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":133261140,"gmtCreate":1621754845480,"gmtModify":1704362119713,"author":{"id":"3554924249585989","authorId":"3554924249585989","name":"HYYOONG","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Somehow can foresee in 10 years time, googlewill stilk be a common verb that everyone uses…","listText":"Somehow can foresee in 10 years time, googlewill stilk be a common verb that everyone uses…","text":"Somehow can foresee in 10 years time, googlewill stilk be a common verb that everyone uses…","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/133261140","repostId":1180033495,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4422566,"gmtCreate":1621777972593,"gmtModify":1680790478018,"authorId":3577858781887046,"author":{"id":3577858781887046,"authorId":3577858781887046,"name":"huat168","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f4331c579b39f5904bca699993489762","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":133261140,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Perhaps?","text":"Perhaps?","html":"Perhaps?"}],"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":45,"commentSize":31,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.24.2","shortVersion":"4.24.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1180033495"}