Andrew Jassy Sells 20,000 Shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Stock

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO Andrew Jassy sold 20,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, August 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $259.01, for a total transaction of $5,180,200.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 2,235,766 shares in the company, valued at approximately $579,085,751.66. This trade represents a 0.89% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Amazon.com Stock Down 0.3%

AMZN stock opened at $260.28 on Thursday. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $250.94 and a 200 day moving average of $239.94. The stock has a market capitalization of $2.81 trillion, a PE ratio of 20.94, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.74 and a beta of 1.45. The company has a quick ratio of 0.87, a current ratio of 1.03 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. Amazon.com, Inc. has a 52 week low of $196.00 and a 52 week high of $287.20.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 30th. The e-commerce giant reported $5.75 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.82 by $3.93. The business had revenue of $200.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $197.03 billion. Amazon.com had a net margin of 17.44% and a return on equity of 18.00%. Amazon.com’s revenue for the quarter was up 19.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.68 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 8.05 earnings per share for the current year.

Key Headlines Impacting Amazon.com

Here are the key news stories impacting Amazon.com this week:

• Positive Sentiment: AWS expands its data-analytics offering. Amazon Web Services agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the team behind open-source DuckDB. The deal could strengthen AWS’s position in analytics and help attract developers and enterprise workloads, while DuckDB is expected to remain independent. Amazon DuckLabs acquisition
• Positive Sentiment: AI-related cloud demand remains a major catalyst. Amazon is reportedly negotiating with Moonshot AI to host its Kimi K3 model under a potential revenue-sharing arrangement. If completed, the agreement could add AI workloads to AWS, although U.S. scrutiny of Moonshot creates geopolitical and regulatory uncertainty. Reuters Moonshot AI article
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts and large investors remain optimistic. Citizens maintained a Market Outperform rating and a $315 price target, while several hedge funds and prominent investors, including Peter Thiel, David Tepper and Bill Ackman, have recently held or increased Amazon positions. These reports support the view that AMZN’s valuation and AWS growth remain attractive.
• Neutral Sentiment: Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk. The closure of the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform on September 30 appears financially immaterial, but it signals continued portfolio streamlining as AI replaces some human-completed digital tasks. Mechanical Turk shutdown
• Negative Sentiment: AI spending is weighing on cash generation. AWS growth is reportedly accelerating, but infrastructure investment pushed trailing free cash flow backward by approximately $25.8 billion. Investors want evidence that massive data-center spending will translate into durable profits and improved cash flow. Amazon AWS free cash flow article
• Negative Sentiment: Executives sold more than $15 million of stock. CEO Andy Jassy, AWS CEO Matthew Garman, CFO Brian Olsavsky and other senior leaders reported sales. The trades were made under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans, reducing their significance, but the concentration of selling can still weigh on sentiment. Amazon insider selling article

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Amazon.com

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Trust Asset Management LLC lifted its stake in shares of Amazon.com by 3.3% in the 2nd quarter. Trust Asset Management LLC now owns 107,563 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $26,000 after purchasing an additional 3,414 shares during the period. TOP Private Wealth LLC. purchased a new position in Amazon.com in the second quarter valued at $29,000. Bard Associates Inc. purchased a new position in Amazon.com in the second quarter valued at $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC acquired a new position in shares of Amazon.com in the second quarter worth about $33,000. Finally, MilWealth Group LLC raised its position in shares of Amazon.com by 79.0% in the fourth quarter. MilWealth Group LLC now owns 179 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $41,000 after acquiring an additional 79 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 72.20% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages have commented on AMZN. Canaccord Genuity Group lifted their price target on Amazon.com from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, April 30th. Guggenheim restated a “buy” rating and issued a $320.00 price objective (up from $300.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Sanford C. Bernstein reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $320.00 target price (up from $315.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, July 31st. Barclays reiterated an “overweight” rating and issued a $365.00 target price (up from $330.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Friday, July 31st. Finally, TD Cowen reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $350.00 price target (up from $340.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, July 31st. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-six have given a Buy rating and two have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Amazon.com currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $322.39.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc is a diversified technology and retail company best known for its e-commerce marketplace and broad portfolio of consumer and enterprise services. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company launched as an online bookseller and expanded into a global retail platform that sells products directly to consumers and provides a marketplace for third-party sellers. Over time Amazon has grown beyond retail into areas including cloud computing, digital media, devices and logistics.

Key businesses and offerings include Amazon’s online marketplace and fulfillment services, the Amazon Prime membership program (which bundles expedited shipping with streaming and other benefits), Amazon Web Services (AWS) which supplies on-demand cloud computing and storage to businesses and public-sector customers, and a range of content and advertising services such as Prime Video and Amazon Advertising.