Jefferies Financial Group Reaffirms “Buy” Rating for Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Jefferies Financial Group in a report released on Monday,MarketScreener reports.

Other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports about the stock. KeyCorp set a $285.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Raymond James Financial lowered their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $260.00 to $225.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Wall Street Zen cut shares of Amazon.com from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, January 10th. BMO Capital Markets reiterated an “outperform” rating and issued a $310.00 price objective (up from $304.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Tuesday, February 3rd. Finally, Weiss Ratings reissued a “buy (b)” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a research note 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 assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $286.57.

Amazon.com Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:AMZN opened at $207.24 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a current ratio of 1.05 and a quick ratio of 0.88. Amazon.com has a 1 year low of $161.38 and a 1 year high of $258.60. The firm has a market capitalization of $2.22 trillion, a PE ratio of 28.90, a P/E/G ratio of 1.57 and a beta of 1.40. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $218.33 and its 200-day moving average price is $225.68.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 5th. The e-commerce giant reported $1.95 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.97 by ($0.02). The firm had revenue of $213.39 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $211.02 billion. Amazon.com had a net margin of 10.83% and a return on equity of 21.87%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 13.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.86 earnings per share. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Amazon.com will post 6.31 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at Amazon.com

In other news, CEO Matthew S. Garman sold 17,751 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $205.22, for a total value of $3,642,860.22. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 9,405 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,930,094.10. This represents a 65.37% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO Douglas J. Herrington sold 6,835 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $205.82, for a total transaction of $1,406,779.70. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 522,361 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $107,512,341.02. This represents a 1.29% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold 71,686 shares of company stock valued at $14,688,739 over the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 10.80% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in Amazon.com during the fourth quarter worth $32,868,735,000. Auto Owners Insurance Co raised its position in Amazon.com by 27,376.7% in the fourth quarter. Auto Owners Insurance Co now owns 98,448,885 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $2,272,397,000 after purchasing an additional 98,090,585 shares during the period. J. Stern & Co. LLP lifted its stake in shares of Amazon.com by 20,598.0% in the 4th quarter. J. Stern & Co. LLP now owns 87,982,814 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $20,308,193,000 after purchasing an additional 87,557,736 shares during the last quarter. Nuveen LLC acquired a new position in shares of Amazon.com in the 1st quarter valued at $11,674,091,000. Finally, Cardano Risk Management B.V. grew its holdings in shares of Amazon.com by 879.4% during the 4th quarter. Cardano Risk Management B.V. now owns 27,862,400 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $6,431,199,000 after purchasing an additional 25,017,588 shares during the period. 72.20% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Trending Headlines about Amazon.com

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

• Positive Sentiment: Amazon confirmed the acquisition of humanoid-robot maker Fauna Robotics, giving AMZN a foothold in consumer/approachable humanoids and advancing its robotics/automation strategy — a long-term growth play for retail, devices and fulfillment. Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics
• Positive Sentiment: Zoox (an Amazon unit) is expanding robotaxi operations into San Francisco, Las Vegas and preparing launches in Austin and Miami — meaningful optionality for AMZN in autonomous mobility and services revenue over time. Zoox expansion
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts continue to back Amazon’s AI/AWS story: TD Cowen/Barclays/others have reiterated buy stances and $300-ish targets, pointing to AWS reacceleration and AI-led margin upside as a multi-year thesis. Analyst buy ratings
• Neutral Sentiment: Reports note deeper AI integration at AWS and large-scale AI commitments (OpenAI, expanded Nvidia GPU deployments), which support long-term revenue mix improvement but also imply heavy near-term capex. AWS AI demand
• Neutral Sentiment: New leveraged ETFs and retail-media stories (and occasional promotional/marketing items) increase trading interest/volatility but don’t change fundamentals immediately. 2x ETF treatment
• Negative Sentiment: AWS suffered a disruption in its Bahrain region tied to drone activity amid Middle East hostilities; repeated outages raise short-term revenue/SLAs and reputational risk for cloud customers — a key downside catalyst for the stock today. AWS Bahrain disruption
• Negative Sentiment: Logistics pressure: FedEx is expanding same-day delivery and reports suggest Amazon-USPS negotiations are deteriorating — both raise short-term delivery-cost and fulfillment risk for Amazon’s retail business. FedEx same-day delivery Amazon-USPS negotiations
• Negative Sentiment: Investor concern about Amazon’s large AI capex and the pace of near-term margin recovery persists — even as analysts debate whether current weakness is a buying opportunity, capex worries keep shares under pressure. AI capex concerns

About Amazon.com

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.