Alphabet Higher Ahead Of Q1

Alphabet Inc GOOG shares are trading higher by $4.74 at $757.41 in Thursday's session. The company will announce Q1 results after the close.

The Street estimates stand for EPS at $7.95 on revenues of $20.34 billion.

Ahead of the report, the issue has been in a fairly narrow range. It has found support in between the lows from Tuesday ($749.33) and Wednesday ($750.01) at $749.55). On the upside, it did surpass Wednesday's high ($758.13), but came up well short of Tuesday's high ($769.90) peaking at $760.