Telsey Advisory Group Reiterates “Outperform” Rating for Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)‘s stock had its “outperform” rating reissued by stock analysts at Telsey Advisory Group in a research note issued on Friday,Benzinga reports. They presently have a $300.00 price target on the e-commerce giant’s stock. Telsey Advisory Group’s price objective would suggest a potential upside of 24.11% from the company’s current price.

AMZN has been the subject of a number of other reports. Loop Capital increased their price target on Amazon.com from $300.00 to $360.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, November 18th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upped their price objective on shares of Amazon.com from $278.00 to $300.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, October 31st. Canaccord Genuity Group set a $300.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, October 31st. Mizuho downgraded shares of Amazon.com from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, November 18th. Finally, KeyCorp reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a $308.00 price target (up previously from $303.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Wednesday. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-four have given a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Amazon.com presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $295.91.

Amazon.com Price Performance

NASDAQ AMZN opened at $241.73 on Friday. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $233.13 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $229.55. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.58 trillion, a P/E ratio of 34.14, a P/E/G ratio of 1.52 and a beta of 1.37. The company has a current ratio of 1.01, a quick ratio of 0.80 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.14. Amazon.com has a 12-month low of $161.38 and a 12-month high of $258.60.

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

Insider Activity at Amazon.com

In other news, Director Daniel P. Huttenlocher sold 1,237 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $226.61, for a total value of $280,316.57. Following the completion of the transaction, the director owned 26,148 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $5,925,398.28. The trade was a 4.52% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Also, Director Keith Brian Alexander sold 900 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $233.00, for a total value of $209,700.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 7,170 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,670,610. This trade represents a 11.15% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold a total of 49,561 shares of company stock valued at $10,989,862 over the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 9.70% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Amazon.com

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Torren Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Amazon.com in the 4th quarter valued at $1,030,000. Rogco LP grew its position in Amazon.com by 9.5% during the fourth quarter. Rogco LP now owns 10,029 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $2,315,000 after buying an additional 874 shares during the period. Ares Financial Consulting LLC purchased a new position in Amazon.com in the fourth quarter valued at $682,000. R Squared Ltd raised its position in shares of Amazon.com by 6.3% in the fourth quarter. R Squared Ltd now owns 8,272 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $1,909,000 after acquiring an additional 487 shares during the period. Finally, M&T Bank Corp raised its position in shares of Amazon.com by 5.9% in the fourth quarter. M&T Bank Corp now owns 2,116,071 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $488,431,000 after acquiring an additional 118,211 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 72.20% of the company’s stock.

More Amazon.com News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI and expand commercial ties (selling compute and potentially licensing OpenAI models for Amazon products), a move that could secure privileged access to top generative-AI models and strengthen AWS’s position in the high-growth AI infrastructure market. Amazon in talks to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI (Reuters)
• Positive Sentiment: Amazon confirmed another major round of corporate cuts (~16,000 jobs) as it reorganizes around AI and streamlines operations — investors are treating the layoffs as margin-accretive cost reduction that improves near-term profitability expectations. Amazon says it is laying off 16,000 employees (TechCrunch)
• Positive Sentiment: Operational automation continues: Amazon reportedly has ~1 million robots in its facilities, boosting fulfillment efficiency and lowering long?run labor intensity — a structural tailwind to margin improvement as the company scales AI/automation. Charted: Amazon Is Hiring Robots While Cutting Human Jobs (TalkMarkets)
• Positive Sentiment: AWS momentum and partnerships continue: Amazon announced or was linked to multiple cloud/AI collaborations (e.g., NTT DATA, supply-chain deals for low?carbon copper for data centers) that reinforce long?term demand for AWS infrastructure. These wins support revenue visibility for the cloud segment. NTT DATA Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS (Financial Post/press release)
• Neutral Sentiment: Amazon is closing most Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores and refocusing grocery around online delivery and Whole Foods — a strategic retrenchment that reduces retail noise but also signals execution limits in physical retail. Amazon to close most Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores in days (TechXplore)
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysts are active: some price-target upgrades and upbeat previews ahead of Q4 earnings coexist with conservative takes — consensus expectations matter as AMZN heads into its Feb. 5 report, so market reaction could swing on guidance. Analyst notes and price target activity (Benzinga summary)
• Negative Sentiment: Reputational and legal risk: reporting that AI training datasets used by some projects contained large volumes of illegal content (including child-abuse material) and a reported clash between Amazon-backed Anthropic and the Pentagon over AI safeguards raise regulatory and compliance risks for AI deployments. These issues could prompt scrutiny, remediation costs, or slower enterprise adoption in sensitive use cases. Amazon Stock Falls as AI Training Data Reveals “High Volume” of Child Abuse Content (TipRanks)
• Negative Sentiment: Public backlash and governance risk from repeated large layoffs and high-profile spending (e.g., reported multibillion AI investments, film promotion spend) could cause reputational damage and invite shareholder or political scrutiny. That may cap valuation multiples despite improving operating leverage. Amazon’s $35 Million ‘Melania’ Promotion Has Critics Questioning Its Motives (NYT)

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.