Google Inc. (GOOG): Today's Featured Internet Winner
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Google Inc., a technology company, maintains an index of Web sites and other online content for users, advertisers, and Google network members and other content providers. Google has a market cap of $171.5 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.3, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 0.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 27 analysts that rate Google a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Google as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels, increase in stock price during the past year and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
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