AlphaCore Capital LLC Raises Stake in Amazon.com, Inc. $AMZN

AlphaCore Capital LLC increased its stake in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) by 16.5% in the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 108,580 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock after buying an additional 15,407 shares during the period. Amazon.com comprises about 0.8% of AlphaCore Capital LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 29th biggest position. AlphaCore Capital LLC’s holdings in Amazon.com were worth $23,841,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Fairway Wealth LLC lifted its holdings in Amazon.com by 113.2% during the third quarter. Fairway Wealth LLC now owns 113 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 60 shares during the last quarter. Sellwood Investment Partners LLC purchased a new position in shares of Amazon.com in the third quarter worth about $27,000. Bridge Generations Wealth Management LLC increased its stake in shares of Amazon.com by 2,330.0% in the third quarter. Bridge Generations Wealth Management LLC now owns 243 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $53,000 after purchasing an additional 233 shares in the last quarter. Cooksen Wealth LLC raised its position in shares of Amazon.com by 23.5% in the second quarter. Cooksen Wealth LLC now owns 247 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $54,000 after purchasing an additional 47 shares during the period. Finally, PayPay Securities Corp raised its position in shares of Amazon.com by 62.3% in the third quarter. PayPay Securities Corp now owns 250 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $55,000 after purchasing an additional 96 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 72.20% of the company’s stock.

Amazon.com News Summary

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 Trading Up 0.4%

Amazon.com stock opened at $214.33 on Wednesday. The stock has a market cap of $2.30 trillion, a P/E ratio of 29.89, a PEG ratio of 1.60 and a beta of 1.40. Amazon.com, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $161.38 and a fifty-two week high of $258.60. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $224.09 and its 200-day moving average price is $227.06. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a quick ratio of 0.88 and a current ratio of 1.05.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) last posted its quarterly earnings data 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 net margin of 10.83% and a return on equity of 21.87%. The business had revenue of $213.39 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $211.02 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.86 EPS. Amazon.com’s quarterly revenue was up 13.6% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts forecast that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 6.31 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms recently commented on AMZN. Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $300.00 price objective on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, February 6th. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “buy” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Monday, February 2nd. Bank of America cut their price target on Amazon.com from $303.00 to $286.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, January 27th. Roth Mkm reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $295.00 price target (up from $270.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Monday, January 26th. Finally, Weiss Ratings reiterated a “buy (b)” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Monday, December 29th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-three have assigned a Buy rating and four have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $286.93.

Insider Transactions at Amazon.com

In other news, VP Shelley Reynolds sold 2,695 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $205.90, for a total transaction of $554,900.50. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president owned 119,780 shares in the company, valued at approximately $24,662,702. This trade represents a 2.20% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CEO Matthew S. Garman sold 17,751 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $205.22, for a total value of $3,642,860.22. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 9,405 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,930,094.10. The trade was a 65.37% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 71,686 shares of company stock worth $14,688,739. 10.80% of the stock is owned by insiders.

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.