Many analysts debated when Google stock price started out at an initial public offering for only $85 per share back in August 2004.

That time the market was not ready to the idea that online companies could be very valuable. Google’s value was intellectual property instead of real property.

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.

Lots of analysts are still debate the value of Google company, but now it’s more a matter how quickly it will grow and how much more.

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.

Investors has sown that they are very confident with Google company, even though there is no stock comes with guarantee, but Google seems will not likely to significantly lose value, at least not relative to the market as a whole.

Find Google stock price at anytime by going to any search engine, especially Google.com, by typing the company’s exchange symbol, “Goog”. There you will see the up to date Google stock price easily.

You should know that there are two types of Google stock that is common and preferred. Both types have voting rights, only Preferred stocks prices are usually higher because the stocks holders are paid dividends before they are distributed to the common stock holders.

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