Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) price is hovering higher on Monday, November 20, jumping 0.34% above its previous close.
A look at today’s price movement shows that the recent level at last check reads $145.18, with intraday deals fluctuating between $142.545 and $145.23. The company’s 5Y monthly beta was ticking 1.17 while its P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period read 76.06. Taking into account the 52-week price action we note that the stock hit a 52-week high of $147.29 and 52-week low of $81.43. The stock added 16.38% on its value in the past month.
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Amazon.com Inc., which has a market valuation of $1505.35 billion, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report Jan 31, 2024 – Feb 05, 2024.
Revisions to the company’s EPS highlights a short term direction of a stock’s price movement, which in the last 7 days came up with no upward and no downward reviews. On the technical perspective front, indicators give AMZN a short term outlook of 100% Buy on average. Looking at the stock’s medium term indicators we note that it is averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators are currently assigning the stock as 100% Buy.
Here is a look at the average analyst rating for the stock as represented on a scale of 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock is strong buy or strong sell respectively. Specifically, 57 analysts have assigned AMZN a recommendation rating as follows: 1 rate it as a Hold; 48 advise Buy while 8 analyst(s) assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged the Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) stock as Underweight, with 0 recommending Sell. In general, analysts have rated the stock Buy, a scenario likely to bolster investors out for an opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
The overview shows that AMZN’s price is at present 6.66% off the SMA20 and 8.94% from the SMA50. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) metric on the 14-day timeframe is pointing at 64.52, with weekly volatility standing at 2.30%. The indicator jumps to 2.41% when calculated based on the past 30 days. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s beta value is holding at 1.17, while the average true range (ATR) indicator is currently reading 3.53. Considering analysts have assigned the stock a price target range of $140.00-$230.00 as the low and high respectively, we find the trailing 12-month average consensus price target to be $175.22. Based on this estimate, we see that today’s price at last check is roughly 3.89% off the estimated low and -57.89% off the forecast high. Investors will no doubt be excited to see the share price fall to $175.00, which is the median consensus price, and at that level AMZN would be -20.13% from recent price.
Turning out attention to how the Amazon.com Inc. stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: AMZN’s stock is 0.34% on the day and 53.58% in the past 12 months. Turning out attention to how the Amazon.com Inc. stock has performed in comparison to its peers in the industry, here’s what we find: AMZN’s stock is 0.34% on the day and 53.58% in the past 12 months. As for Amazon.com Inc., the P/E ratio stands at 76.06 higher than that of Apple Inc.’s at 31.14 and Microsoft Corp.’s 36.17. Elsewhere in the market, the S&P 500 Index has rallied 0.44% in today’s early trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial also seeing a positive session on the day with 0.30%.
An analysis of the Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock in terms of its daily trading volume indicates that the 3-month average is 52.44 million. However, this figure increases on the past 10-day timeline to an average of 48.41 million.
Current records show that the company has 10.24B in outstanding shares. The insiders’ percentage holdings are 12.30% of outstanding shares while the percentage share held by institutions stands at 60.92%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of Oct 30, 2023, stood at 75.16 million shares, which puts the short ratio at the time at 1.35. From this we can glean that short interest is 0.73% of company’s current outstanding shares. Notably, we see that shares short in October fall slightly given the previous month’s figure stood at 76.82 million. But the 73.42% upside, the stock’s price has registered year-to-date as of today’s value, will likely reignite investor interest given the prospect of it rallying even higher.
