Google Stock Price

By: Anne Durrell

Google stock price started out at an initial public offering of just $85 per share in August of 2004. At the time analysts debated whether or not the company was worth it. So much of Google's value was intellectual property as opposed to real property and the market was not used to the idea that internet companies could be so valuable.

Well in hindsight there was certainly no reason for debate as five years later, the Google stock price is five times its initial value and the company as a whole has a market value of $175 billion dollars. The initial climb was the most impressive as the Google stock price rose to over $100 in the first day, and then doubled within the next three months.

Analysts still debate the value of the company but it is more a matter of how much more it will grow and how quickly. Obviously the early growth was unrealistic and unsustainable, but over the past few years the company has settled into a more traditional growth pattern with exception of the recession which has been detrimental to the entire tech sector and the entire marketplace.

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No stock comes with a guarantee, but investors have shown that they are confident that Google is a solid, reliable company that is not likely to significantly lose value, at least not relative to the market as a whole. This makes it a sound, reliable investment. If I had money to invest, I would be looking very seriously at Google as a stock to buy and keep for a long time. It may have ups and downs in the future, but I am confident that there will be a whole lot more ups than downs.

Trade volume for Google has been down lately, meaning that the Google stock price has been less volatile. This may be because Google has not been in the news as much or because there are so many other companies in serious transition right now. This is likely to change in the near future because of two reasons.

Good for Google is its introduction of a new browser - Google Chrome which the public seems excited about and out to be good for the company's profits. Bad for Google is lingering discussion of an antitrust case brought by the government that could force Google to sell some parts of its business. Even worse it would create negative publicity that is never good for stock prices.

The up to date Google stock price can be found at any time by searching using the company's exchange symbol "GOOG." It is also important to note that there are two types of Google stock, Preferred and Common. Preferred stock prices are traditionally higher because these stock holders are paid dividends before dividends are distributed to all the common stock holders. Both types have voting rights.

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