In the last trading session, 34.59 million shares of the Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) were traded, and its beta was 1.34. Most recently the company’s share price was $206.02, and it changed around $5.03 or 2.50% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $2187.18B. AMZN currently trades at a discount to its 52-week high of $242.52, offering almost -17.72% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $151.61, which indicates that the current value has risen by an impressive 26.41% since then. We note from Amazon.com Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 41.58 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 51.56 million.
Amazon.com Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.23. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 72 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 21 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 4 recommended AMZN as a Hold, whereas 47 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight. Amazon.com Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 1.31 for the current quarter.
Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) trade information
Instantly AMZN has showed a green trend with a performance of 2.50% at the end of last trading. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 206.69 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 0.32%. The company’s shares are currently down -6.09% year-to-date, but still down -0.07% over the last five days. On the other hand, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) is 9.01% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 65.74 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.05 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $257.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 19.99% from its current value. Analyst projections state that AMZN is forecast to be at a low of $235 and a high of $270.
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) estimates and forecasts
The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be 8.93%, up from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 45 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 161.8B in revenue for the current quarter. 44 analysts expect Amazon.com Inc to make 172.7B in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 147.98B and 158.88B respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will jump, forecast at 9.34%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at 8.70%.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 36.89%. Amazon.com Inc earnings are expected to increase by 11.88% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 17.16% per year for the next five years.
AMZN Dividends
Amazon.com Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Apr-30.
Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 8.72% of Amazon.com Inc shares, and 65.43% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 71.68%. Amazon.com Inc stock is held by 7011.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 7.3424% of the shares, which is about 767.07 million shares worth $148.24 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 6.2094% or 648.7 million shares worth $125.36 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
