Amazon.com, Inc. $AMZN Shares Sold by Lion Street Advisors LLC

Lion Street Advisors LLC decreased its holdings in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZNFree Report) by 94.8% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 1,167 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock after selling 21,359 shares during the period. Lion Street Advisors LLC’s holdings in Amazon.com were worth $256,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Bridgewater Advisors Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Amazon.com by 2.3% in the 3rd quarter. Bridgewater Advisors Inc. now owns 70,811 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $17,210,000 after purchasing an additional 1,623 shares in the last quarter. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. boosted its holdings in Amazon.com by 1.2% during the third quarter. China Universal Asset Management Co. Ltd. now owns 243,722 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $53,514,000 after buying an additional 2,799 shares in the last quarter. ODonnell Financial Services LLC boosted its holdings in Amazon.com by 7.8% during the third quarter. ODonnell Financial Services LLC now owns 4,982 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $1,094,000 after buying an additional 360 shares in the last quarter. Schrum Private Wealth Management LLC grew its position in Amazon.com by 8.0% in the third quarter. Schrum Private Wealth Management LLC now owns 2,044 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $449,000 after buying an additional 151 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Frisch Financial Group Inc. grew its position in Amazon.com by 1.9% in the third quarter. Frisch Financial Group Inc. now owns 24,661 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $5,415,000 after buying an additional 466 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 72.20% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity

In other Amazon.com news, CEO Douglas J. Herrington sold 1,000 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction dated Monday, March 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $204.25, for a total transaction of $204,250.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 521,361 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $106,487,984.25. The trade was a 0.19% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, VP Shelley Reynolds sold 2,695 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $205.90, for a total value of $554,900.50. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president owned 119,780 shares in the company, valued at $24,662,702. This represents a 2.20% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last three months, insiders sold 71,686 shares of company stock worth $14,688,739. Corporate insiders own 9.70% of the company’s stock.

Amazon.com Price Performance

AMZN opened at $213.31 on Monday. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $224.83 and a 200-day moving average of $227.22. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.29 trillion, a P/E ratio of 29.75, a PEG ratio of 1.60 and a beta of 1.40. Amazon.com, Inc. has a 12-month low of $161.38 and a 12-month high of $258.60. The company has a quick ratio of 0.88, a current ratio of 1.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZNGet Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The e-commerce giant reported $1.95 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.97 by ($0.02). The business had revenue of $213.39 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $211.02 billion. Amazon.com had a net margin of 10.83% and a return on equity of 21.87%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 13.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.86 EPS. Equities analysts forecast that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 6.31 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have recently commented on AMZN. Arete Research increased their price objective on Amazon.com from $283.00 to $285.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, February 11th. Argus restated a “buy” rating and issued a $325.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, February 6th. Guggenheim reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $300.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Mizuho downgraded Amazon.com from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 18th. Finally, Morgan Stanley reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $300.00 target price (down from $315.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, February 6th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-three have given a Buy rating and four have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Amazon.com presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $287.29.

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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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