Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Trading 1.4% Higher – Time to Buy?

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares traded up 1.4% during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $212.95 and last traded at $212.79. 25,139,263 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 50% from the average session volume of 50,267,738 shares. The stock had previously closed at $209.77.

Trending Headlines about Amazon.com

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

• Positive Sentiment: Broader tech rally after the U.S.-Iran ceasefire lifted Magnificent Seven names, giving Amazon a market tailwind that helped push shares higher. Tech rally after ceasefire
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst optimism: multiple firms bumped up price targets/ratings this week (Cantor Fitzgerald raised its PT to $260; Moffett Nathanson to $288), supporting conviction in Amazon’s AI/AWS story. Cantor Fitzgerald price target raise
• Positive Sentiment: AWS commercial traction: Uber expanded use of AWS Graviton and is trialing Trainium3, signaling continued demand for Amazon’s AI infrastructure and chips. That reinforces AWS revenue visibility. Uber expands AWS use
• Positive Sentiment: Logistics stability: Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service reached a deal keeping roughly 80% of current USPS package volume, removing a near-term operations risk and preserving a key delivery channel. Amazon-USPS deal
• Neutral Sentiment: Deal chatter: reports that Amazon is exploring a ~$9B acquisition of Globalstar create a potential strategic growth angle (satcom/Project Kuiper), but the idea is capital‑intensive and generated mixed market reaction. Globalstar acquisition speculation
• Negative Sentiment: Lawsuits over AI training data: YouTubers sued Amazon alleging it scraped videos to train generative AI tools — potential legal, IP and reputational risk if cases gain traction. YouTubers sue Amazon
• Negative Sentiment: Operational risk in the Middle East: recent drone strikes damaged AWS infrastructure in Bahrain and the UAE; AWS says teams are working to restore services, but the events highlight geopolitical and reliability risks for cloud operations. AWS Middle East disruptions
• Negative Sentiment: Customer/PR friction: Amazon will end storefront support for pre‑2013 Kindles (no new book purchases/downloads), prompting consumer backlash; separately, reports of brands pulling items over Amazon pricing tactics could pressure retail assortment and relationships. Kindle end-of-support

Analyst Ratings Changes

AMZN has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Argus reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $325.00 price target on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, February 6th. Raymond James Financial lowered their price target on Amazon.com from $260.00 to $225.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, February 6th. Benchmark reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Thursday, January 29th. Wolfe Research lowered their price target on Amazon.com from $255.00 to $250.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, March 19th. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, February 6th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-three have given a Buy rating and four have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Amazon.com currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $287.39.

Amazon.com Stock Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a quick ratio of 0.88 and a current ratio of 1.05. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $212.57 and its 200 day simple moving average is $224.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.38 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 30.86, a PEG ratio of 1.57 and a beta of 1.38.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) last announced 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). Amazon.com had a net margin of 10.83% and a return on equity of 21.87%. The business had revenue of $213.39 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $211.02 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.86 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 13.6% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts forecast that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 6.31 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Amazon.com

In other Amazon.com news, CEO Douglas J. Herrington sold 1,000 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, April 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.50, for a total transaction of $210,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 520,361 shares in the company, valued at approximately $109,535,990.50. The trade was a 0.19% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, SVP David Zapolsky sold 10,649 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, February 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $205.43, for a total transaction of $2,187,624.07. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 41,190 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,461,661.70. The trade was a 20.54% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 72,686 shares of company stock worth $14,899,239. Corporate insiders own 10.80% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Amazon.com

Several hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of AMZN. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in Amazon.com in the 4th quarter worth approximately $32,868,735,000. Auto Owners Insurance Co boosted its position in Amazon.com by 27,376.7% in the 4th quarter. Auto Owners Insurance Co now owns 98,448,885 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $2,272,397,000 after purchasing an additional 98,090,585 shares in the last quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP boosted its position in Amazon.com by 20,598.0% in the 4th quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 87,982,814 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $20,308,193,000 after purchasing an additional 87,557,736 shares in the last quarter. Nuveen LLC purchased a new stake in Amazon.com in the 1st quarter worth approximately $11,674,091,000. Finally, Cardano Risk Management B.V. boosted its position in Amazon.com by 879.4% in the 4th quarter. Cardano Risk Management B.V. now owns 27,862,400 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $6,431,199,000 after purchasing an additional 25,017,588 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 72.20% of the company’s stock.

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.