Amazon. com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions through online and physical stores in North America and internationally.
Amazon stock last closed at $223.30, up 2.85% from the previous day, and has increased 12.86% in one year. It has underperformed other stocks in the Internet Retail industry by 0.2 percentage points. Amazon stock is currently +47.29% from its 52-week low of $151.61, and -7.93% from its 52-week high of $242.52.
At the moment, there are 10.62B shares of AMZN outstanding. The market capitalization of AMZN is $2.37T. In the last 24 hours, 119.22M AMZN shares were traded.
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Out of 38 Equities analysts who monitor AMZN, the consensus analyst rating on Amazon is a Strong Buy
Please keep in mind that analyst forecasts are not recommendations, nor are they investment advice.
Mark Shmulik, a top 6% analyst from Bernstein maintains AMZN with a buy rating and lowers their AMZN price target from $235.00 to $230.00, on May 2, 2025.
Brad Erickson, a top 2% analyst from RBC Capital maintains AMZN with a buy rating and lowers their AMZN price target from $235.00 to $230.00, on May 2, 2025.
Scott Devitt, a top 2% analyst from Wedbush maintains AMZN with a buy rating and raises their AMZN price target from $225.00 to $235.00, on May 2, 2025.
Thomas Champion, a top 11% analyst from Piper Sandler reiterates AMZN with a strong buy rating and lowers their AMZN price target from $215.00 to $212.00, on May 2, 2025.
Piper Sandler's Thomas Champion lowered their price target on Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) by 1.4% from $215 to $212 on 2025/05/02. The analyst reiterated their Strong Buy rating on the stock.
Amazon reported its Q1 2025 earnings.
Considering the unpredictable nature of the macro, Champion acknowledged that Q1 earnings were better than anticipated, although management did cut its guidance.
In spite of macro, the analyst noted that Amazon plans to continue to pursue lower service costs and seems to be on the verge of releasing an AI product cycle.
For Q1 2025, Amazon reported:
For Q2 2025, management guided:
President & CEO Andy Jassy commented: “We’re pleased with the start to 2025, especially our pace of innovation and progress in continuing to improve customer experiences.
“From Alexa+ (our next generation of Alexa that’s meaningfully smarter, more capable, and takes actions for customers), to another delivery speed record for our Prime members, to our new Trainium2 chips and Bedrock model expansion that make it easier for AWS customers to train models and run inference more flexibly and cost-effectively, to our first Project Kuiper satellites successfully launching into low earth orbit in our quest to provide broadband access to hundreds of millions of households in rural areas without it today—we’re continuing to find meaningful ways to make customers’ lives easier and better every day.”
Daniel Kurnos, a top 2% analyst from Benchmark reiterates AMZN with a strong buy rating and maintains their AMZN price target from $260.00 to $260.00, on May 2, 2025.
You can dig deeper into what analysts are forecasting on the Amazon stock forecast page.
Last year, AMZN earnings were $65.94B. In the past 5 year, AMZN's earnings have grown by 42.53% per year. This was slower than the Internet Retail industry average of 109.28%.
Last year, AMZN revenue was $650.31B. During the past five year, AMZN's revenue has gone up by 17.03% per year. This was slower than the Internet Retail industry average of 21.26%.
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Over the past year, executives and large shareholders at AMZN have sold more shares than they have bought.
Douglas J. Herrington, CEO Worldwide Amazon Stores of AMZN, was the latest AMZN insider to sell. They sold $512,450.00 worth of AMZN stock on Jun 2, 2025.
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No, Amazon doesn't provide an income stream by paying out dividends.
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