Insider Selling: Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) SVP Sells 7,100 Shares of Stock

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) SVP David Zapolsky sold 7,100 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, February 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $205.35, for a total value of $1,457,985.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the senior vice president owned 51,839 shares in the company, valued at $10,645,138.65. This represents a 12.05% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website.

David Zapolsky also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, February 24th, David Zapolsky sold 10,649 shares of Amazon.com stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $205.43, for a total value of $2,187,624.07.

Amazon.com Stock Up 1.6%

AMZN traded up $3.29 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $208.56. 41,046,132 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 54,408,398. Amazon.com, Inc. has a 1 year low of $161.38 and a 1 year high of $258.60. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a quick ratio of 0.88 and a current ratio of 1.05. The stock has a market capitalization of $2.24 trillion, a PE ratio of 29.09, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.34 and a beta of 1.37. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $227.87 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $228.15.

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

More Amazon.com News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Large, tangible AI infrastructure investment — Amazon committed $12 billion to new data‑center campuses in Louisiana, a concrete buildout that supports AWS capacity and revenue growth for AI workloads. Amazon plans $12 billion data center buildout in Louisiana
• Positive Sentiment: Improving AI ecosystem tone — news that Anthropic is extending cooperative enterprise arrangements (and analyst notes that its tools aren’t displacing software vendors) has helped lift AI/software sentiment, which benefits Amazon via its Anthropic stake and AWS partnerships. Anthropic Extends Enterprise Olive Branch, Lifts Software Stocks
• Neutral Sentiment: Broad market support — a tech-led, broad‑based equity rally lifted many large-cap names, providing short‑term tailwinds for AMZN alongside sector rotation headlines. US Equity Indexes Rise as Technology Participates in Broad-Based Rally
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst / fundamentals context — several writeups note Amazon’s fundamentals and AWS strength remain intact despite the pullback, framing the decline as an investment-cycle reset rather than structural deterioration.
• Negative Sentiment: Wall Street fear over massive AI capex — management’s disclosure of roughly $200 billion in AI‑related capital spending remains the primary negative catalyst, prompting questions about near‑term returns and free‑cash‑flow pressure. Amazon’s $200 Billion AI Spending Shocker Has Wall Street Asking One Question
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling — recent Form 4 filings show sales by senior executives (VP Shelley Reynolds; CEO Douglas J. Herrington), which can amplify short‑term selling pressure and investor caution. Shelley Reynolds Form 4 Douglas J. Herrington Form 4
• Negative Sentiment: AGI lab leadership change — the head of Amazon’s AGI lab is leaving, raising short‑term questions about continuity in longer‑term research efforts. Head of Amazon’s AGI lab is leaving the company
• Negative Sentiment: Regulatory/legal headlines — California asked a court to block alleged anti‑competitive pricing practices and Italy’s privacy authority banned an Amazon logistics unit from processing some employee data; both add regulatory risk and headline volatility. California seeks injunction to stop Amazon’s alleged stifling of price competition Italy watchdog bans Amazon unit from using staff personal data

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Amazon.com

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of AMZN. Brighton Jones LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Amazon.com by 10.9% in the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 4,036,091 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $885,478,000 after buying an additional 397,007 shares in the last quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC grew its stake in Amazon.com by 4.1% during the fourth quarter. Revolve Wealth Partners LLC now owns 25,045 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock valued at $5,495,000 after acquiring an additional 986 shares in the last quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG increased its holdings in Amazon.com by 2.8% during the 4th quarter. Bank Pictet & Cie Europe AG now owns 2,016,869 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $442,481,000 after acquiring an additional 54,987 shares during the period. Highview Capital Management LLC DE increased its holdings in Amazon.com by 5.5% during the 4th quarter. Highview Capital Management LLC DE now owns 28,975 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $6,357,000 after acquiring an additional 1,518 shares during the period. Finally, Liberty Square Wealth Partners LLC purchased a new stake in Amazon.com in the 4th quarter worth approximately $2,153,000. Institutional investors own 72.20% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of analysts recently commented on AMZN shares. Evercore set a $285.00 price target on Amazon.com in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Wolfe Research restated an “outperform” rating and issued a $275.00 price objective on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Monday, January 5th. BMO Capital Markets reiterated an “outperform” rating and set a $310.00 target price (up from $304.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Tuesday, February 3rd. Scotiabank reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $275.00 price target (down from $300.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, February 6th. Finally, KeyCorp set a $285.00 price target on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Friday, February 6th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-three have issued a Buy rating and four have issued a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $287.29.

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.