Ausdal Financial Partners Inc. Acquires New Stake in Amazon.com, Inc. $AMZN

Key Points

• Ausdal Financial Partners acquired 93,630 Amazon shares worth approximately $22.3 million, making AMZN its 20th-largest holding and representing 0.9% of its portfolio.
• Analysts remain broadly bullish, with 56 Buy ratings and three Holds; Amazon has a “Moderate Buy” consensus rating and an average price target of $321.19.
• Amazon reported strong quarterly results, including $5.75 in earnings per share and $200.61 billion in revenue, while insiders sold approximately $18.6 million of stock over the past three months under pre-arranged trading plans.

Ausdal Financial Partners Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - Free Report) during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor acquired 93,630 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock, valued at approximately $22,316,000. Amazon.com makes up 0.9% of Ausdal Financial Partners Inc.'s holdings, making the stock its 20th biggest holding.

Other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Bard Associates Inc. bought a new position in Amazon.com in the second quarter valued at about $32,000. Longfellow Investment Management Co. LLC acquired a new stake in Amazon.com in the second quarter worth about $33,000. Lifetime Wealth Management P.C. bought a new stake in Amazon.com during the 4th quarter worth about $45,000. Prudent Man Investment Management Inc. raised its holdings in Amazon.com by 87.7% during the 4th quarter. Prudent Man Investment Management Inc. now owns 229 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock worth $53,000 after purchasing an additional 107 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Strategic Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Amazon.com during the 4th quarter valued at about $68,000. 72.20% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

AMZN has been the topic of several recent research reports. Telsey Advisory Group set a $335.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com and gave the company an "outperform" rating in a research note on Friday, July 31st. Bank of America boosted their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $310.00 to $320.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Friday, July 31st. Pivotal Research restated a "buy" rating and issued a $333.00 price objective (up from $320.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a report on Friday, July 31st. BMO Capital Markets reaffirmed an "outperform" rating and issued a $360.00 price objective (up from $355.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Finally, Mizuho set a $330.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com and gave the stock an "outperform" rating in a report on Friday, July 31st. Fifty-six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $321.19.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Amazon.com news, CFO Brian T. Olsavsky sold 6,172 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $260.31, for a total value of $1,606,633.32. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 109,207 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $28,427,674.17. The trade was a 5.35% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CEO Matthew Garman sold 14,541 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $259.06, for a total transaction of $3,766,991.46. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 17,794 shares in the company, valued at approximately $4,609,713.64. The trade was a 44.97% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold 71,589 shares of company stock worth $18,568,785 in the last three months. 8.90% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Amazon.com News Summary

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

• Positive Sentiment: Amazon announced a plan to invest approximately $3 billion in India’s quick-commerce market through 2030, expanding its Amazon Now delivery network. The investment could strengthen Amazon’s position in a rapidly growing market, although its current share is only about 6.2%. Amazon bets $3 billion on India's fast-delivery boom
• Positive Sentiment: New Amazon Supply Chain Services offerings let merchants add fast, free Prime delivery to their own websites and manage orders from Walmart, Shopify, eBay and TikTok through Seller Central. The initiative could expand fulfillment revenue and make Amazon’s logistics infrastructure more valuable outside its marketplace. Amazon Lets Merchants Add Free Prime Delivery to Their Own Websites
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst commentary remains constructive on Amazon Web Services, custom chips and agentic AI. Reports cite a roughly $496 billion AWS backlog and expanding AI tools for third-party sellers, advertising and cloud customers, supporting the long-term earnings-growth case.
• Positive Sentiment: Amazon is investing more than $100 million in an Indiana robotics manufacturing facility expected to create 300 jobs. The plant should increase internal automation capacity and could eventually support efficiency gains across the fulfillment network. Amazon to Expand Robot-Making Capacity With New Indiana Hub
• Neutral Sentiment: Amazon is allowing Anthropic’s Claude to access seller data while blocking Meta’s Muse shopping agent. The decision protects control over customer and marketplace data, but it could encourage rivals such as Shopify and Walmart to build more open agentic-commerce ecosystems. Amazon Opens Seller Data to Claude Days After Blocking Meta’s Muse
• Negative Sentiment: The India expansion and Indiana robotics project increase near-term capital spending, contributing to investor concerns about cash-flow pressure and the timing of returns. Amazon’s stock has also been technically testing support near its key moving averages.
• Negative Sentiment: A proposed nationwide class-action lawsuit alleges systematic discrimination against pregnant warehouse employees. Additional workforce litigation could increase legal costs, regulatory scrutiny and reputational risk. Amazon Faces Another Worker Lawsuit
• Negative Sentiment: Rising Treasury yields and broader weakness in technology stocks are creating valuation headwinds for AMZN, while concerns about heavy AI spending and uncertain monetization remain a near-term overhang.

Amazon.com Price Performance

AMZN opened at $249.38 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.87, a current ratio of 1.03 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. Amazon.com, Inc. has a 12 month low of $196.00 and a 12 month high of $287.20. The company has a fifty day simple moving average of $256.34 and a 200 day simple moving average of $246.95. The stock has a market cap of $2.69 trillion, a P/E ratio of 20.06, a P/E/G ratio of 1.98 and a beta of 1.44.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN - Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, July 30th. The e-commerce giant reported $5.75 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.82 by $3.93. Amazon.com had a return on equity of 18.00% and a net margin of 17.44%.The firm had revenue of $200.61 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $197.03 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.68 earnings per share. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 19.6% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts expect that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 8.01 EPS for the current year.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc is a global technology and e-commerce company that operates online marketplaces and provides a broad range of consumer products and services. Its retail business sells merchandise directly to customers and enables third-party sellers to offer products through Amazon's websites and applications. The company also operates physical stores and provides services such as digital content, subscriptions, and consumer devices, including Kindle and Echo products.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides cloud computing, storage, database, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technology services to businesses, governments, and organizations.

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