Alphabet shares soar through $1,000 for the first time

• Shares of Alphabet Class A stock passed through $1,000 per share on Monday.
• The move comes a week after Amazon hit the same milestone
• Alphabet may have been bumped by a Pacific Crest investor note telling investors to buy GOOGL.

Shares of Alphabet Class A stock officially passed through the $1,000 per share mile mark on Monday morning. The move comes just days after shares of Amazon broke through $1,000 for the first time ever.

Shares of Alphabet have been on the upswing all year from a $672.66 52-week low, but may have received a nudge thanks to a recent Pacific Crest note that downgraded Apple. In it, analyst Andy Hargreaves suggested investors buy Alphabet instead of Apple.

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"We recommend large-cap tech investors use proceeds from sales of Apple to purchase GOOGL (Overweight, PT $1,100), which we believe retains an excellent risk/reward profile and more substantial upside potential than AAPL," Hargreaves said.

Separately, Goldman Sachs published a report Monday noting the technology sector is its favorite at the moment, and that there's a "basket" of 13 companies that sit on Goldman's "Hedge Fund VIP" and "Mutual Fund Overweight Positions" lists. Alphabet is included among the favorites.

Shares of Google were up more than 1 percent to $1,007.01 at the time of publication.

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