Amazon.com, Inc. $AMZN Stock Position Trimmed by Mar Vista Investment Partners LLC

Mar Vista Investment Partners LLC decreased its holdings in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) by 12.3% during the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 247,963 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock after selling 34,780 shares during the period. Amazon.com makes up approximately 4.7% of Mar Vista Investment Partners LLC’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 5th largest holding. Mar Vista Investment Partners LLC’s holdings in Amazon.com were worth $54,445,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other large investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of Amazon.com in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $27,438,011,000. Nuveen LLC acquired a new position in Amazon.com during the first quarter worth $11,674,091,000. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its position in Amazon.com by 2.1% in the second quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 849,721,601 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $186,420,422,000 after acquiring an additional 17,447,045 shares in the last quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC lifted 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 acquiring an additional 12,122,668 shares during the period. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. boosted its position in shares of Amazon.com by 21.3% during the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 57,908,424 shares of the e-commerce giant’s stock worth $11,017,657,000 after purchasing an additional 10,176,835 shares in the last quarter. 72.20% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms have weighed in on AMZN. Scotiabank reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $275.00 target price (down from $300.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, February 6th. Morgan Stanley reissued an “overweight” rating and issued a $300.00 price objective (down from $315.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Raymond James Financial dropped their target price on shares of Amazon.com from $260.00 to $225.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, February 6th. Weiss Ratings restated a “buy (b)” rating on shares of Amazon.com in a research report on Monday, December 29th. Finally, Citizens Jmp increased their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $300.00 to $315.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, February 2nd. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-three have assigned a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $286.93.

Amazon.com News Roundup

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

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, CEO Matthew S. Garman sold 17,751 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction on 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 owned 9,405 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,930,094.10. This trade represents a 65.37% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, CEO Douglas J. Herrington sold 6,835 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $205.82, for a total value 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 ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 71,686 shares of company stock worth $14,688,739. Corporate insiders own 10.80% of the company’s stock.

Amazon.com Stock Performance

Shares of AMZN stock opened at $214.33 on Wednesday. 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 firm has a market capitalization of $2.30 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.89, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.60 and a beta of 1.40. Amazon.com, Inc. has a one year low of $161.38 and a one year high of $258.60. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $224.09 and a 200 day moving average price of $227.06.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) last announced 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 company had revenue of $213.39 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $211.02 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.86 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 13.6% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 6.31 EPS for the current year.

Amazon.com 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.