Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO Douglas Herrington Sells 1,000 Shares of Stock

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO Douglas Herrington sold 1,000 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction dated Friday, May 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $265.65, for a total value of $265,650.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 498,861 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $132,522,424.65. This trade represents a 0.20% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Amazon.com Price Performance

AMZN stock opened at $273.54 on Wednesday. Amazon.com, Inc. has a 52-week low of $183.85 and a 52-week high of $278.56. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $224.90 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $227.88. The company has a market capitalization of $2.94 trillion, a P/E ratio of 32.72, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.98 and a beta of 1.46. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27, a quick ratio of 1.01 and a current ratio of 1.18.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, April 29th. The e-commerce giant reported $2.78 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.63 by $1.15. Amazon.com had a return on equity of 19.92% and a net margin of 12.22%.The firm had revenue of $181.52 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $177.28 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.59 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 16.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts expect that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 7.95 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Amazon.com

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. American Capital Advisory LLC increased its stake in shares of Amazon.com by 63.9% during the third quarter. American Capital Advisory LLC now owns 8,081 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $1,774,000 after purchasing an additional 3,152 shares in the last quarter. Compagnie Lombard Odier SCmA purchased a new stake in shares of Amazon.com during the third quarter valued at approximately $451,642,000. Weaver Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in Amazon.com by 13.6% in the fourth quarter. Weaver Capital Management LLC now owns 39,264 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $9,063,000 after purchasing an additional 4,713 shares during the last quarter. Ethos Financial Group LLC boosted its holdings in Amazon.com by 9.6% in the fourth quarter. Ethos Financial Group LLC now owns 36,485 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $8,421,000 after purchasing an additional 3,196 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Baltimore Washington Financial Advisors Inc. boosted its holdings in Amazon.com by 1.9% in the third quarter. Baltimore Washington Financial Advisors Inc. now owns 239,862 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $52,667,000 after purchasing an additional 4,558 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 72.20% of the company’s stock.

More Amazon.com News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Amazon launched Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), opening its freight/fulfillment/parcel network to outside businesses — a potential high-margin new revenue stream that markets liken to the AWS playbook. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Q1 results and management messaging reinforced the growth narrative: AWS growth reaccelerated, revenue and EPS beat consensus, and CEO Andy Jassy framed the AI capex as a longer‑term ROI bet — supporting the bull case. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Wall Street moved more bullish: several firms raised price targets (examples include BNP Paribas raising its target), which amplifies upside expectations and buyer appetite. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Amazon expanded same‑day fresh grocery deliveries to business customers (Amazon Business), extending addressable market and recurring order flows for grocery/fulfillment. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Insider selling by executives/directors has been disclosed (Rule 10b5‑1 plan filings); these appear to be planned dispositions rather than signals of change in strategy. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Amazon is rolling internal AI tooling (Claude Code, Codex) and experimenting with merging AI chat into core search — operational moves that can lift productivity and product UX but whose revenue timing is unclear. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: CapEx and free‑cash‑flow pressure remain a risk: analysts highlight that heavy AI infrastructure spending has pushed FCF sharply lower in the near term, raising execution/timing risk if AWS/AI revenue doesn’t scale as expected. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Macro and inflationary commentary warns large hyperscaler AI spending could add cost pressure (energy, wages, tariffs), which would be a multiplier on margin/valuation risk across the sector. Read More.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities analysts have recently weighed in on AMZN shares. UBS Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $333.00 target price (up from $304.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Wednesday, April 29th. Royal Bank Of Canada set a $320.00 target price on Amazon.com and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Argus restated a “buy” rating and issued a $325.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Wells Fargo & Company restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $313.00 target price (up from $307.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Thursday, April 30th. Finally, Arete Research boosted their target price on Amazon.com from $285.00 to $301.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 23rd. Fifty-six investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $313.09.

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.