Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) Stocks Rise 43.73% YTD; What Next For It?

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s traded shares stood at 6.1 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 1.16. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $218.39, to imply an increase of 0.11% or $0.23 in intraday trading. The AMZN share’s 52-week high remains $220.00, putting it -0.74% down since that peak but still an impressive 34.46% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $143.13. The company has a valuation of $2296.37B, with an average of 37.88 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 38.40 million shares over the past 3 months.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Amazon.com Inc (AMZN), translating to a mean rating of 1.27. Of 44 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give AMZN a Sell rating. 1 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 3 advise Hold as 40 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 1.47.

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Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) trade information

After registering a 0.11% upside in the latest session, Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is 6.15%, and 9.47% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is 43.73%. Short interest in Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) saw shorts transact 83.77 million shares and set a 1.99 days time to cover.

The extremes give us $210 and $265 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, AMZN has been trading -21.34% off suggested target high and 3.84% from its likely low.

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) estimates and forecasts

Looking at statistics comparing Amazon.com Inc share performance against respective industry, we note that the company has outperformed competitors. Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) shares are 18.05% up over the last 6 months, with its year-to-date growth rate higher than industry average at 78.97% against 16.80%. The rating firms project that company’s revenue will grow 10.95% compared to the previous financial year.

Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 45 analysts is 187.24B. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 32 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 158.46B.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 169.96B and 143.31B respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to rise 10.17% before jumping 10.57% in the following quarter.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 23.55% for the past 5-year period. While 2024 is set for a 76.91% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 21.00% annually.

AMZN Dividends

Amazon.com Inc has its next earnings report out in January. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too.

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s Major holders

Amazon.com Inc insiders hold 10.13% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 64.31% of the shares at 71.56% float percentage. In total, 64.31% institutions holds shares in the company, led by VANGUARD GROUP INC. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 767.07 million shares (or 7.3806% of shares), all amounting to roughly $148.24 billion.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 648.7 million shares, or about 6.2417% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $125.36 billion.