Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) Stock Price Expected to Rise, Cantor Fitzgerald Analyst Says

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) had its price target raised by Cantor Fitzgerald from $250.00 to $260.00 in a note issued to investors on Wednesday,Benzinga reports. The firm presently has an “overweight” rating on the e-commerce giant’s stock. Cantor Fitzgerald’s price target would suggest a potential upside of 21.63% from the stock’s previous close.

A number of other analysts have also commented on AMZN. Citizens Jmp lifted their price target on Amazon.com from $300.00 to $315.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, February 2nd. UBS Group set a $311.00 price target on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Tuesday, February 3rd. BMO Capital Markets restated an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 price target (up from $304.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Tuesday, February 3rd. Citigroup raised their price objective on shares of Amazon.com from $265.00 to $285.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 25th. Finally, Daiwa Securities Group dropped their target price on shares of Amazon.com from $300.00 to $280.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-three have assigned a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $287.39.

Amazon.com Trading Up 0.5%

Shares of AMZN stock opened at $213.77 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. The company has a market capitalization of $2.29 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.81, a PEG ratio of 1.57 and a beta of 1.38. Amazon.com has a 52-week low of $165.29 and a 52-week high of $258.60. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $212.57 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $224.00.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) last posted its earnings results 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 return on equity of 21.87% and a net margin of 10.83%.The firm had revenue of $213.39 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $211.02 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.86 EPS. Amazon.com’s quarterly revenue was up 13.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts anticipate that Amazon.com will post 6.31 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity

In other news, CEO Matthew S. Garman sold 17,751 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, February 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $205.22, for a total value of $3,642,860.22. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 9,405 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,930,094.10. This trade represents a 65.37% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CEO Douglas J. Herrington sold 1,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $210.50, for a total value of $210,500.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 520,361 shares in the company, valued at approximately $109,535,990.50. The trade was a 0.19% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 72,686 shares of company stock valued at $14,899,239. 9.70% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of AMZN. Brighton Jones LLC grew its stake in Amazon.com by 10.9% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 4,036,091 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $885,478,000 after buying an additional 397,007 shares in the last quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Amazon.com by 4.1% during the 4th quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC now owns 25,045 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $5,495,000 after acquiring an additional 986 shares during the last quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG grew its position in Amazon.com by 2.8% in the fourth quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG now owns 2,016,869 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $442,481,000 after acquiring an additional 54,987 shares in the last quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE grew its position in Amazon.com by 5.5% in the fourth quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE now owns 28,975 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $6,357,000 after acquiring an additional 1,518 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Liberty Square Wealth Partners LLC bought a new position in Amazon.com in the fourth quarter valued at $2,153,000. 72.20% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Trending Headlines about Amazon.com

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

• Positive Sentiment: Amazon sealed a new agreement with the U.S. Postal Service that keeps ~80% of current package volume, reducing execution risk and easing near-term delivery-cost disruption concerns. Amazon and USPS Deal
• Positive Sentiment: Uber is expanding use of AWS Graviton/Trainium chips for ride-matching and AI workloads — a visible customer win that supports demand for AWS compute and Amazon-designed silicon. Uber Expands AWS Bet
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts argue concerns about Amazon’s heavy AI capex are overblown and point to backlog growth, revenue-per-employee and cloud demand as metrics that could unlock upside — supporting a constructive long-term view on AWS investment. AI Capex Analyst Take
• Positive Sentiment: MoffettNathanson raised its price target on AMZN to $288 and kept a buy rating, reinforcing bullish sell‑side sentiment that can support multiple expansion narratives. Price Target Raise
• Positive Sentiment: Retail merchandising tie‑ups continue: Martha Stewart launched an exclusive kitchen electrics collection in Amazon stores, a modest but visible win for product exclusives and marketplace merchandising. Martha Stewart Exclusive
• Neutral Sentiment: Speculation continues around a potential satellite deal (Globalstar) to accelerate Amazon’s LEO ambitions — strategically meaningful but still speculative and capital-intensive if pursued. Satellite Acquisition Chatter
• Negative Sentiment: AWS teams are scrambling to restore Middle East services after drone strikes damaged data centers in Bahrain and the UAE, highlighting regional security risk, potential revenue disruption for affected customers and possible incremental recovery costs. AWS Middle East Outages
• Negative Sentiment: Amazon faces legal risk as creators sue over alleged scraping of YouTube content to train AI tools; adverse outcomes or settlements could raise compliance costs and restrain some AI product features. Creator Lawsuit
• Negative Sentiment: Shareholder pressure over data center water use and environmental impacts is mounting; community resistance and cancellation of projects could slow AWS expansion in water‑stressed regions or increase mitigation costs. Data Center Water Concerns

Amazon.com Company Profile

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.