Aventura Private Wealth LLC Invests $9.94 Million in Amazon.com, Inc. $AMZN

Key Points

• Aventura Private Wealth LLC acquired 43,063 shares of Amazon in Q4, a $9.94 million new stake that represents about 3.6% of the firm's holdings and is its sixth-largest position.
• Amazon confirmed the acquisition of Fauna Robotics and is expanding Zoox robotaxi operations, while analysts largely reiterate buy ratings with an average price target near $286, citing AWS/AI reacceleration and potential margin upside.
• Insiders sold 71,686 shares worth roughly $14.7 million over the past three months, even as institutional investors own about 72.2% of the stock and corporate insiders hold 10.8%, indicating heavy institutional ownership alongside recent insider selling.

Aventura Private Wealth LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - Free Report) during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm acquired 43,063 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock, valued at approximately $9,940,000. Amazon.com makes up approximately 3.6% of Aventura Private Wealth LLC's holdings, making the stock its 6th biggest position.

A number of other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its stake in Amazon.com by 2.1% during 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 purchasing an additional 17,447,045 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp increased its position in shares of Amazon.com by 2.0% during the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 381,681,441 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock valued at $83,805,794,000 after purchasing an additional 7,584,156 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Amazon.com by 1.7% during the 2nd quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 216,717,657 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock valued at $47,332,625,000 after buying an additional 3,721,658 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new position in shares of Amazon.com during the 2nd quarter valued at about $27,438,011,000. Finally, Northern Trust Corp lifted its position in Amazon.com by 0.3% in the 1st quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 97,379,134 shares of the e-commerce giant's stock worth $18,527,354,000 after buying an additional 302,858 shares during the last quarter. 72.20% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Amazon.com News Summary

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

Insider Buying and Selling at Amazon.com

In other Amazon.com news, SVP David Zapolsky sold 10,649 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, February 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $205.43, for a total value of $2,187,624.07. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president owned 41,190 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,461,661.70. This trade represents a 20.54% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, CEO Douglas J. Herrington sold 6,835 shares of Amazon.com stock in a transaction that occurred on 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 completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 522,361 shares in the company, valued at approximately $107,512,341.02. This represents a 1.29% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 71,686 shares of company stock worth $14,688,739 over the last three months. 10.80% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Amazon.com Price Performance

Shares of Amazon.com stock opened at $207.24 on Wednesday. The company's fifty day simple moving average is $218.33 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $225.68. Amazon.com, Inc. has a 12-month low of $161.38 and a 12-month high of $258.60. The firm has a market cap of $2.22 trillion, a PE ratio of 28.90, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.57 and a beta of 1.40. The company has a quick ratio of 0.88, a current ratio of 1.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16.

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN - Get Free Report) last issued 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 for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $211.02 billion. Amazon.com had a net margin of 10.83% and a return on equity of 21.87%. The business's revenue was up 13.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $1.86 earnings per share. As a group, equities analysts expect that Amazon.com, Inc. will post 6.31 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts have commented on the stock. Maxim Group increased their price target on shares of Amazon.com from $280.00 to $290.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Desjardins boosted their price objective on shares of Amazon.com to $218.00 in a report on Monday, December 8th. Roth Mkm reaffirmed a "buy" rating and issued a $295.00 price objective (up from $270.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Monday, January 26th. President Capital decreased their target price on shares of Amazon.com from $320.00 to $296.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, February 10th. Finally, Piper Sandler reissued an "overweight" rating and issued a $260.00 price target (down from $300.00) on shares of Amazon.com in a research note on Friday, February 6th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifty-three have issued a Buy rating and four have given a Hold rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $286.57.

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.

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