GOOG stock rises after hours as Alphabet sets Feb. 4 earnings date; Wiz deal deadline in focus

Alphabet’s non-voting Class C shares were little changed on Thursday after EU regulators set a Feb. 10 deadline for an initial call on Google’s planned Wiz purchase and after Cantor Fitzgerald lifted its rating. The stock opened higher and then sagged, tracking the broader wobble in growth shares.

Alphabet Inc’s Class C shares rose 0.5% on Friday to $315.32, finishing the week higher as U.S. markets opened 2026 with choppy trading.

Alphabet Inc’s Class C shares were up 0.5% at $315.32 in after-hours trading on Friday, as investors weighed new bullish calls tied to Google’s AI-powered search push. The stock ranged from $310.71 to $322.86 in the session, with about 22 million shares traded.

Citizens Financial Group analyst Andrew Boone raised his price target on Google parent Alphabet to $385 from $340, citing AI Mode and AI Overviews in Search and the release of the Gemini 3 model, even as ChatGPT and Perplexity vie for users, Barron’s reported. “We view AI search as a tailwind near term for query growth,” Boone wrote, and the new target implies about 22% upside from Tuesday’s close, the report said. U.S. stock markets were closed on Thursday for the New Year’s Day holiday. Barron's+1

Alphabet’s Class C shares edged down 0.2% in after-hours trading on Wednesday to $313.80, after a muted year-end session that left the stock inside a $312.34 to $315.37 range. Investing.com South Africa