In today’s recent session, 4.94 million shares of the Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) have been traded, and its beta is 1.16. Most recently the company’s share price was $227.91, and it changed around $1.82 or 0.81% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $2396.53B. AMZN at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $230.08, offering almost -0.95% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $143.64, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 36.98% since then. We note from Amazon.com Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 38.79 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 38.73 million.

Amazon.com Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.27. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 67 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 18 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 4 recommended AMZN as a Hold, whereas 45 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Amazon.com Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 1.47 for the current quarter.

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) trade information

Instantly AMZN has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 0.81% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 230.08 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.94%. The company’s shares are currently up 50.00% year-to-date, but still up 6.78% over the last five days. On the other hand, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) is 9.48% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 83.77 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.99 day(s).

The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $225, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -1.29% from its current value. Analyst projections state that AMZN is forecast to be at a low of $210 and a high of $265.

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) estimates and forecasts

Amazon.com Inc share prices are performing particularly well compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have risen 21.73 percent over the past six months and at a 78.97% annual growth rate that is well above the industry average of 15.80%. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 10.95%, up from the previous year.

Consensus estimates provided by 45 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 187.24B in revenue for the current quarter. 32 analysts expect Amazon.com Inc to make 158.51B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 169.96B and 143.31B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 10.17%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 10.61%.

Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 23.55%. Amazon.com Inc earnings are expected to increase by 76.83% in 2024, but the outlook is positive 21.00% per year for the next five years.

AMZN Dividends

Amazon.com Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in January.

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

Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 10.13% of Amazon.com Inc shares, and 64.32% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 71.57%. Amazon.com Inc stock is held by 6371.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 7.3806% of the shares, which is about 767.07 million shares worth $148.24 billion.

BLACKROCK INC., with 6.2417% or 648.7 million shares worth $125.36 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.