Amazon (AMZN) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What AMZN does

Amazon (AMZN) is a US stock in the Consumer Cyclical sector, Internet Retail industry, headquartered in Seattle, United States. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It sells consumer products, advertising, and subscriptions through online and physical stores, manufactures devices such as Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, Echo, Ring, Blink, and eero, and provides compute, storage, artificial intelligence, database, analytics, machine learning, and advertising services. It also offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, and platforms that enable sellers, authors, publishers, musicians, filmmakers, Twitch streamers, and app developers to publish and sell content.

Key numbers explained

• 249,27 USD is the current price per share of Amazon (AMZN).
• The trailing P/E ratio of 20,1 shows how much investors pay for each dollar of the company's last 12 months of earnings; a lower number can suggest a cheaper valuation relative to earnings.
• The forward P/E ratio of 24 uses expected future earnings, giving a sense of how the market prices in growth.
• Earnings per share, trailing 12 months of 12,42 USD represents the portion of net income earned per share over the last year.
• The dividend yield of 0% and 0% of earnings paid out as dividends mean Amazon does not currently pay a cash dividend to shareholders.
• Beta of 1,44 indicates the stock tends to move about 44% more than the overall market, so it is typically seen as more volatile.
• The price change over the last 52 weeks of 15,8% shows the total return from one year ago to today, ignoring dividends.
• Return on equity of 30,6% measures how efficiently the company generates profit from shareholders' equity.
• Debt-to-equity ratio of 45,6% compares total debt to shareholders' equity, indicating the level of financial leverage.
• Price-to-book of 4,87 compares the market price to the company's book value per share.
• Market cap of 2,69 trillion USD reflects the total market value of all outstanding shares.
• Revenue, trailing 12 months of 775,68 billion USD with 19,6% year-over-year growth shows the scale and pace of top-line expansion.
• Profit margin of 17,4% and operating margin of 13,7% indicate how much of each revenue dollar remains as profit and operating income, respectively.

Recent news

Recent headlines mention a Planet Labs partnership launching an Amazon biodiversity tracking initiative, a broad market drop driven by rising yields and calls for more rate hikes that highlighted Amazon alongside peers, and a debate over which Anthropic backer—Alphabet or Amazon—may benefit more from a large upcoming IPO. Other stories discuss the risks of debt-financed AI investment for equity markets and general market declines tied to rising oil prices and Treasury yields.

What to watch

Investors typically monitor how changes in interest rates and Treasury yields affect high-growth stocks like Amazon, which is part of the S&P 500. The performance of AWS and advertising revenue, competitive dynamics in retail and cloud, regulatory developments, and macroeconomic conditions such as consumer spending and currency movements are common factors that can influence the stock. For comparison, investors may also look at peers such as O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), D. R. Horton (DHI), McDonald's (MCD), Genuine Parts Company (GPC), Best Buy (BBY), Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH), and Yum! Brands (YUM), all of which can be explored in the Stocks directory.