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 $192.82, down 1.49% from the previous day, and has increased 10.51% in one year. It has underperformed other stocks in the Internet Retail industry by 0.14 percentage points. Amazon stock is currently +27.18% from its 52-week low of $151.61, and -20.49% from its 52-week high of $242.52.
At the moment, there are 10.6B shares of AMZN outstanding. The market capitalization of AMZN is $2.04T. In the last 24 hours, 39.24M AMZN shares were traded.
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Out of 43 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.
Gil Luria, a top 24% analyst from DA Davidson maintains AMZN with a strong buy rating and raises their AMZN price target from $235.00 to $280.00, on Feb 7, 2025.
DA Davidson's Gil Luria raised their price target on Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) by 19.1% from $235 to $280 on 2025/02/08. The analyst maintained their Strong Buy rating on the stock.
Amazon reported its Q4 and FY 2024 earnings.
Luria said they hiked their price target on a quarter in which strong earnings, improving Retail profitability, and sustained AWS growth more than offset hefty Forex headwinds.
The analyst told readers that Amazon management's AWS commentary suggests they expect growth in both its AI and non-AI services, with cloud migrations accelerating as customers become familiar with new AI initiatives.
Amazon reported:
For Q4 2024:
EPS of $1.86, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 22.37% and Q4 2023's $1.00.
Revenue of $187.8B, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 0.28% and was up 10% Y/Y.
For FY 2024:
For Q1 2025, management guided:
President & CEO Andy Jassy commented: “The holiday shopping season was the most successful yet for Amazon and we appreciate the support of our customers, selling partners, and employees who helped make it so.
“When we look back on this quarter several years from now, I suspect what we’ll most remember is the remarkable innovation delivered across all of our businesses, none more so than in AWS where we introduced our new Trainium2 AI chip, our own foundation models in Amazon Nova, a plethora of new models and features in Amazon Bedrock that give customers flexibility and cost savings, liberating transformations in Amazon Q to migrate from old platforms, and the next edition of Amazon SageMaker to pull data, analytics, and AI together more concertedly.
"These benefits are often realized by customers (and the business) several months down the road, but these are substantial enablers in this emerging technology environment and we’re excited to see what customers build.”
Brad Erickson, a top 3% analyst from RBC Capital maintains AMZN with a buy rating and raises their AMZN price target from $255.00 to $265.00, on Feb 7, 2025.
Scott Devitt, a top 2% analyst from Wedbush reiterates AMZN with a buy rating and maintains their AMZN price target from $280.00 to $280.00, on Feb 7, 2025.
Michael Graham, a bottom 6% analyst from Canaccord Genuity maintains AMZN with a strong buy rating and raises their AMZN price target from $265.00 to $280.00, on Feb 7, 2025.
Deepak Mathivanan, a top 3% analyst from Cantor Fitzgerald reiterates AMZN with a strong buy rating and maintains their AMZN price target from $270.00 to $270.00, on Feb 7, 2025.
You can dig deeper into what analysts are forecasting on the Amazon stock forecast page.
Last year, AMZN earnings were $59.25B. In the past 5 year, AMZN's earnings have grown by 36.99% per year. This was slower than the Internet Retail industry average of 46.04%.
Last year, AMZN revenue was $637.96B. During the past five year, AMZN's revenue has gone up by 17.86% per year. This was slower than the Internet Retail industry average of 22.86%.
You can research AMZN's earnings and revenue performance here.
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 $532,925.00 worth of AMZN stock on Mar 3, 2025.
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No, Amazon doesn't provide an income stream by paying out dividends.
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