Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Price Target Raised to $283.00

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) had its price objective upped by research analysts at Arete from $264.00 to $283.00 in a note issued to investors on Wednesday,MarketScreener reports. The brokerage currently has a “buy” rating on the e-commerce giant’s stock. Arete’s price target indicates a potential upside of 23.38% from the stock’s current price.

A number of other research firms also recently issued reports on AMZN. CIBC lifted their price objective on shares of Amazon.com to $315.00 in a report on Monday, October 20th. Mizuho downgraded Amazon.com from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, November 18th. CICC Research upped their price objective on Amazon.com from $240.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 5th. Piper Sandler reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Finally, TD Cowen boosted their target price on Amazon.com from $300.00 to $315.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 13th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-seven have assigned a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $295.82.

Amazon.com Stock Down 0.7%

Shares of NASDAQ AMZN opened at $229.37 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.01, a quick ratio of 0.80 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. The business has a 50-day moving average of $231.91 and a 200-day moving average of $228.84. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.45 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.38, a PEG ratio of 1.50 and a beta of 1.37. Amazon.com has a 12 month low of $161.38 and a 12 month high of $258.60.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, October 30th. The e-commerce giant reported $1.95 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.57 by $0.38. Amazon.com had a net margin of 11.06% and a return on equity of 23.62%. The business had revenue of $180.17 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $177.53 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.43 earnings per share. Amazon.com’s quarterly revenue was up 13.4% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts expect that Amazon.com will post 6.31 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at Amazon.com

In other news, CEO Matthew S. Garman sold 17,768 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, November 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $216.90, for a total transaction of $3,853,879.20. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 6,273 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,360,613.70. This represents a 73.91% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Daniel P. Huttenlocher sold 1,237 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $226.61, for a total value of $280,316.57. Following the transaction, the director owned 26,148 shares in the company, valued at approximately $5,925,398.28. This represents a 4.52% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last three months, insiders have sold 79,734 shares of company stock valued at $18,534,017. Company insiders own 10.80% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Amazon.com

A number of large investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Wilson Asset Management International PTY Ltd. purchased a new stake in shares of Amazon.com in the second quarter valued at $11,102,000. ARK Investment Management LLC boosted its stake in shares of Amazon.com by 8.3% during the 2nd quarter. ARK Investment Management LLC now owns 1,140,494 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $250,213,000 after purchasing an additional 86,978 shares during the period. Buckhead Capital Management LLC grew its holdings in Amazon.com by 16.1% during the 2nd quarter. Buckhead Capital Management LLC now owns 28,407 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $6,232,000 after purchasing an additional 3,948 shares during the last quarter. Border to Coast Pensions Partnership Ltd grew its stake in shares of Amazon.com by 6.0% during the second quarter. Border to Coast Pensions Partnership Ltd now owns 1,136,311 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $249,295,000 after buying an additional 63,924 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Alpha Wealth Funds LLC increased its stake in Amazon.com by 172.8% in the second quarter. Alpha Wealth Funds LLC now owns 3,012 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $667,000 after purchasing an additional 1,908 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 72.20% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting Amazon.com

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

• Positive Sentiment: Bull case centers on AWS and AI — investors are betting AWS will re-accelerate Amazon’s profit cycle as AI workloads grow, a narrative repeated across market coverage and investor discussions. Amazon Investors Bet on AWS to Pull the Stock Out of Its Malaise
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst support: some firms are raising price targets and reiterating buy/outperform views (Scotiabank raised its PT to $300), which gives technical and fundamental supporters ammunition to buy dips. Scotiabank Adjusts PT on Amazon
• Positive Sentiment: Product & infrastructure initiatives (Alexa+ rollout, Trainium chips, AWS partnerships and power?grid commitments) support the long-term AI/cloud thesis that underpins revenue and margin upside. Amazon Joins Microsoft In Pledge To Self-Fund Power Grids
• Neutral Sentiment: Upcoming earnings are the near-term catalyst — the stock has been range?bound and many investors are positioning either to buy a post?earnings breakout or wait for confirmation. MarketBeat outlines common pre-earnings trading approaches. 2 Ways to Trade Amazon Ahead of Earnings
• Neutral Sentiment: Options market signal — elevated put yields and other derivatives flow suggest the market is hedging for downside but also imply asymmetric upside if earnings surprise. Is Amazon Too Cheap Ahead Of Earnings?
• Negative Sentiment: Tariff-related price pressure — CEO Andy Jassy warned tariffs are beginning to “creep” into product prices as sellers run out of pre-tariff inventory; that raises concerns about margin/volume dynamics in the retail business and contributed to today’s weakness. Amazon CEO Jassy says Trump’s tariffs have started to ‘creep’ into prices
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst caution: Raymond James trimmed its target and highlighted “agentic commerce” headwinds for Amazon’s AI/commerce roadmap — a signal that some sell?side desks see execution or timing risks. Raymond James Trims Amazon Target
• Negative Sentiment: Broader macro/headline risk (geopolitics, Ray Dalio warnings about capital flows) is prompting rotation out of big tech into safer assets, amplifying AMZN’s intraday downside even where company fundamentals remain intact. AAPL, AMZN and GOOG Forecast

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.