Intech Investment Management LLC reduced its holdings in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) by 29.1% in the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 1,064,573 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock after selling 436,252 shares during the period. Amazon.com comprises 2.1% of Intech Investment Management LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 6th biggest position. Intech Investment Management LLC’s holdings in Amazon.com were worth $233,748,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Several other hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Fairway Wealth LLC boosted its stake in shares of Amazon.com by 113.2% during the third quarter. Fairway Wealth LLC now owns 113 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 60 shares during the period. Sellwood Investment Partners LLC purchased a new position in Amazon.com in the 3rd quarter worth about $27,000. Bridge Generations Wealth Management LLC lifted its holdings in Amazon.com by 2,330.0% during the 3rd quarter. Bridge Generations Wealth Management LLC now owns 243 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $53,000 after buying an additional 233 shares in the last quarter. Cooksen Wealth LLC lifted its holdings in Amazon.com by 23.5% during the 2nd quarter. Cooksen Wealth LLC now owns 247 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $54,000 after buying an additional 47 shares in the last quarter. Finally, PayPay Securities Corp raised its position in Amazon.com by 62.3% during the 3rd quarter. PayPay Securities Corp now owns 250 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $55,000 after purchasing an additional 96 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 72.20% of the company’s stock.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
Several equities analysts have recently commented on the company. Daiwa Securities Group cut their price target on Amazon.com from $300.00 to $280.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $300.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 27th. Barclays reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Raymond James Financial lowered their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $260.00 to $225.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Finally, Maxim Group upped their target price on Amazon.com from $280.00 to $290.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, February 6th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-three have issued a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $286.93.
Insider Activity at Amazon.com
In related news, SVP David Zapolsky sold 10,649 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, February 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $205.43, for a total transaction of $2,187,624.07. Following the sale, the senior vice president directly owned 41,190 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,461,661.70. This trade represents a 20.54% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Matthew S. Garman sold 17,751 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $205.22, for a total value of $3,642,860.22. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 9,405 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,930,094.10. This represents a 65.37% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold 71,686 shares of company stock worth $14,688,739 in the last three months. Company insiders own 10.80% of the company’s stock.
Key Amazon.com News
Here are the key news stories impacting Amazon.com this week:
- Positive Sentiment: Amazon expanded its Health AI assistant onto Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app, broadening consumer-facing use cases that can drive engagement, health‑service revenue and stickier platform usage. Amazon launches healthcare AI assistant on its website, app
- Positive Sentiment: OpenAI will begin using AWS Tranium chips, signaling incremental and durable compute demand for AWS as large AI model customers diversify infrastructure — a structural positive for AWS revenue and margins. OpenAI Gave Amazing News to Amazon Shareholders
- Positive Sentiment: Investor demand for Amazon’s planned jumbo bond sale has been enormous (reports of ~$126B in orders), making it easier and cheaper for Amazon to fund its AI/data‑center capex program. Strong bond takeup is a near‑term vote of confidence from fixed‑income investors. Demand for Amazon’s Bond Sale Is Off the Charts
- Positive Sentiment: Legal win: a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking Perplexity’s shopping agent from purchasing on Amazon — protects conversion/revenue and reduces third‑party bot risk to consumer checkout. Amazon wins court order to block Perplexity’s AI shopping agent
- Neutral Sentiment: Zoox (Amazon’s robotaxi unit) is expanding tests to Phoenix and Dallas and launching an Arizona command hub — a long‑horizon growth story for logistics/transport but not an immediate revenue driver for AMZN. Amazon’s Zoox to launch command hub in Arizona, expand testing to Dallas and Phoenix
- Neutral Sentiment: AWS is shifting defense workloads off Anthropic tech while retaining Claude for other customers — shows AWS is managing model partnerships and customer migrations pragmatically (operationally important but not a clear earnings swing). Amazon transitions defense workloads, keeps Claude for others
- Negative Sentiment: Amazon disclosed recent site outages linked in part to AI‑assisted code changes and has convened a “deep dive” engineering meeting — operational risks and the prospect of more outages can hit sales and investor confidence. Amazon plans ‘deep dive’ internal meeting to address AI-related outages
- Negative Sentiment: Geopolitical risk: drone attacks damaged AWS data centers in the Middle East — physical infrastructure and regional availability risk could pressure enterprise customers and raise mitigation costs. Iran’s attacks on Amazon data centers in UAE, Bahrain signal a new kind of war
- Negative Sentiment: Debt & capex tradeoff: the planned $37–$42B bond issuance (and ongoing ~$200B AI capex program) funds growth but increases leverage and raises scrutiny about near‑term free cash flow and potential balance‑sheet pressure. That dynamic is a key watch item for valuation and margin assumptions. Amazon targeting $37 billion to $42 billion in bond sale
Amazon.com Stock Up 0.4%
Shares of AMZN stock opened at $214.33 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a quick ratio of 0.88 and a current ratio of 1.05. Amazon.com, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $161.38 and a fifty-two week high of $258.60. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $224.09 and its 200-day simple moving average is $227.06. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.30 trillion, a PE ratio of 29.89, a P/E/G ratio of 1.60 and a beta of 1.40.
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 5th. The e-commerce giant reported $1.95 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.97 by ($0.02). The business had revenue of $213.39 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $211.02 billion. Amazon.com had a net margin of 10.83% and a return on equity of 21.87%. The firm’s revenue was up 13.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.86 earnings per share. Equities analysts expect that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 6.31 earnings per share for the current year.
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.
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