Parametrica Management Ltd reduced its position in Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) by 21.6% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 14,490 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock after selling 4,000 shares during the quarter. Amazon.com comprises about 4.9% of Parametrica Management Ltd’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 8th biggest position. Parametrica Management Ltd’s holdings in Amazon.com were worth $3,182,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in AMZN. Norges Bank purchased a new position in shares of Amazon.com in the 2nd quarter worth about $27,438,011,000. Nuveen LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Amazon.com during the 1st quarter worth about $11,674,091,000. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its position in Amazon.com by 2.1% during the 2nd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 849,721,601 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $186,420,422,000 after purchasing an additional 17,447,045 shares in the last quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC raised its holdings in Amazon.com by 22,085.8% in the second quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 12,177,557 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $2,671,634,000 after buying an additional 12,122,668 shares during the period. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its holdings in Amazon.com by 21.3% in the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 57,908,424 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $11,017,657,000 after buying an additional 10,176,835 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 72.20% of the company’s stock.
Insider Buying and Selling at Amazon.com
In other Amazon.com news, SVP David Zapolsky sold 10,649 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, February 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $205.43, for a total transaction of $2,187,624.07. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president owned 41,190 shares in the company, valued at $8,461,661.70. This trade represents a 20.54% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, CEO Douglas J. Herrington sold 1,000 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, March 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $204.25, for a total value of $204,250.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 521,361 shares in the company, valued at $106,487,984.25. This represents a 0.19% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 71,686 shares of company stock valued at $14,688,739. Company insiders own 10.80% of the company’s stock.
Amazon.com Price Performance
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The e-commerce giant reported $1.95 earnings per share (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 analysts’ expectations of $211.02 billion. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.86 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 13.6% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts expect that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 6.31 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Wall Street Analyst Weigh In
A number of research analysts have weighed in on AMZN shares. Sanford C. Bernstein reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Royal Bank Of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $300.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Wedbush reduced their target price on shares of Amazon.com from $340.00 to $300.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 6th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $300.00 price target on shares of Amazon.com and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 27th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reiterated a “buy (b)” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Monday, December 29th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-three have issued a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $286.93.
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Key Stories Impacting Amazon.com
Here are the key news stories impacting Amazon.com this week:
- Positive Sentiment: Amazon expanded its Health AI assistant onto Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app, broadening consumer-facing use cases that can drive engagement, health‑service revenue and stickier platform usage. Amazon launches healthcare AI assistant on its website, app
- Positive Sentiment: OpenAI will begin using AWS Tranium chips, signaling incremental and durable compute demand for AWS as large AI model customers diversify infrastructure — a structural positive for AWS revenue and margins. OpenAI Gave Amazing News to Amazon Shareholders
- Positive Sentiment: Investor demand for Amazon’s planned jumbo bond sale has been enormous (reports of ~$126B in orders), making it easier and cheaper for Amazon to fund its AI/data‑center capex program. Strong bond takeup is a near‑term vote of confidence from fixed‑income investors. Demand for Amazon’s Bond Sale Is Off the Charts
- Positive Sentiment: Legal win: a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking Perplexity’s shopping agent from purchasing on Amazon — protects conversion/revenue and reduces third‑party bot risk to consumer checkout. Amazon wins court order to block Perplexity’s AI shopping agent
- Neutral Sentiment: Zoox (Amazon’s robotaxi unit) is expanding tests to Phoenix and Dallas and launching an Arizona command hub — a long‑horizon growth story for logistics/transport but not an immediate revenue driver for AMZN. Amazon’s Zoox to launch command hub in Arizona, expand testing to Dallas and Phoenix
- Neutral Sentiment: AWS is shifting defense workloads off Anthropic tech while retaining Claude for other customers — shows AWS is managing model partnerships and customer migrations pragmatically (operationally important but not a clear earnings swing). Amazon transitions defense workloads, keeps Claude for others
- Negative Sentiment: Amazon disclosed recent site outages linked in part to AI‑assisted code changes and has convened a “deep dive” engineering meeting — operational risks and the prospect of more outages can hit sales and investor confidence. Amazon plans ‘deep dive’ internal meeting to address AI-related outages
- Negative Sentiment: Geopolitical risk: drone attacks damaged AWS data centers in the Middle East — physical infrastructure and regional availability risk could pressure enterprise customers and raise mitigation costs. Iran’s attacks on Amazon data centers in UAE, Bahrain signal a new kind of war
- Negative Sentiment: Debt & capex tradeoff: the planned $37–$42B bond issuance (and ongoing ~$200B AI capex program) funds growth but increases leverage and raises scrutiny about near‑term free cash flow and potential balance‑sheet pressure. That dynamic is a key watch item for valuation and margin assumptions. Amazon targeting $37 billion to $42 billion in bond sale
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.
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