Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)Consumer Cyclical | Internet Retail | Seattle, United States | NasdaqGS
250.56 USD
+0.86
(0.344%)
⇧
(April 17, 2026, 4 p.m.
EDT)
After hours: 250.74 +0.18 (0.072%) ⇧ (April 17, 2026, 7:59 p.m. EDT) Short-term: ★★★★☆ | Long-term: ★★★★☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆ |
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 10:13 p.m. EDT
AMZN is showing strong bullish momentum with price action surging from $200 to $250 in a week, confirmed by heavy call flow at the $255-$270 levels. While the long-term fundamentals remain solid with strong ROE and growth, options flow suggests a potential short-term overextension or a massive upcoming earnings play where traders are buying 'directional' calls but hedging or speculating on a crash via expensive deep OTM puts. The risk/reward is skewed heavily to the upside for the next few weeks. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| MSTL ✓ | 0.081112 |
| AutoETS | 0.083777 |
| AutoTheta | 0.086864 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.087504 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 60% |
| H-stat | 1.35 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.025 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.35 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Consumer Cyclical |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 43.435 |
| Revenue per Share | 67.279 |
| Market Cap | 2,694,585,253,888 |
| Trailing P/E | 34.95 |
| Forward P/E | 26.65 |
| Beta | 1.38 |
| Profit Margins | 10.83% |
| Website | https://www.amazon.com |
As of April 18, 2026, 10:13 p.m. EDT: Call speculators are aggressively betting on upside, evidenced by volume spikes into OTE and OTM strikes (255, 260, 270, 290) across multiple expirations, with total call volume significantly exceeding put volume in many strikes. This creates a highly bullish gamma exposure wall around $250-$260. However, deep OTE put positioning (strikes $120-$200) shows massive OTM option buying, resulting in implied IV spikes of 10x-15x ATM levels. These massive ITM put IVs compared to the extremely low call IVs suggest a significant disconnect: speculators are pricing in a high-probability rise to the upside but over-expensive downside protection (insurance) which may suppress the realized price if they attempt to buy puts for hedging, or conversely, act as a cushion for volatile drop-offs. The net sentiment is overwhelmingly bullish momentum.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | 0.4974898 |
| Address1 | 410 Terry Avenue North |
| All Time High | 258.6 |
| All Time Low | 0.065625 |
| Ask | 250.55 |
| Ask Size | 1 |
| Audit Risk | 2 |
| Average Analyst Rating | 1.4 - Strong Buy |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 47,919,940 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 51,539,698 |
| Average Volume | 51,539,698 |
| Average Volume10Days | 47,919,940 |
| Beta | 1.383 |
| Bid | 242.08 |
| Bid Size | 1 |
| Board Risk | 8 |
| Book Value | 38.306 |
| City | Seattle |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 10 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 250.56 |
| Current Ratio | 1.051 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,774,915,200 |
| Day High | 256.18 |
| Day Low | 250.11 |
| Debt To Equity | 43.435 |
| Display Name | Amazon.com |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,777,498,200 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,777,498,200 |
| Earnings Growth | 0.05 |
| Earnings Quarterly Growth | 0.059 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,777,492,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,777,492,800 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,777,492,800 |
| Ebitda | 145,730,994,176 |
| Ebitda Margins | 0.20327 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | 18.838 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 3.829 |
| Enterprise Value | 2,745,259,786,240 |
| Eps Current Year | 7.73671 |
| Eps Forward | 9.40315 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | 7.17 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NMS |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 0 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 214.244 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 36.315994 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.16950764 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | 49.74898 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 258.6 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -8.040009 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.03109052 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 165.29 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 85.270004 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 0.51588124 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 165.29 - 258.6 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 863,703,000,000 |
| Float Shares | 9,756,110,785 |
| Forward Eps | 9.40315 |
| Forward P E | 26.64639 |
| Free Cashflow | 23,793,125,376 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqGS |
| Full Time Employees | 1,576,000 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,775,001,600 |
| Gross Margins | 0.50286 |
| Gross Profits | 360,509,997,056 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.08944 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.67116 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 10,754,251,799 |
| Industry | Internet Retail |
| Industry Disp | Internet Retail |
| Industry Key | internet-retail |
| Ir Website | http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-irhome |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 0 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Last Split Date | 1,654,473,600 |
| Last Split Factor | 20:1 |
| Long Business Summary | Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products, advertising, and subscriptions service through online and physical stores in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, fire tablets, fire TVs, echo, ring, blink, and eero; and develops and produces media content. In addition, the company offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products in its stores; and programs that allow authors, independent publishers, musicians, filmmakers, Twitch streamers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, it provides compute, storage, Artificial intelligence, database, analytics, machine learning, and other services, as well as advertising services through programs, such as sponsored ads, display, and video advertising. Additionally, the company offers Amazon Prime, a membership program. The company's products offered through its stores include merchandise and content purchased for resale and products offered by third-party sellers. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, content creators, advertisers, and employees. The company was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. |
| Long Name | Amazon.com, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 2,694,585,253,888 |
| Market State | CLOSED |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_18749 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,767,139,200 |
| Net Income To Common | 77,669,998,592 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 2,694,585,330,757 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 64 |
| Open | 254.95 |
| Operating Cashflow | 139,514,003,456 |
| Operating Margins | 0.10533 |
| Overall Risk | 9 |
| Payout Ratio | 0.0 |
| Peg Ratio | 1.81 |
| Phone | 206 266 1000 |
| Post Market Change | 0.18000793 |
| Post Market Change Percent | 0.071842246 |
| Post Market Price | 250.74 |
| Post Market Time | 1,776,470,398 |
| Previous Close | 249.7 |
| Price Eps Current Year | 32.385857 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 6.541012 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 3.7585368 |
| Profit Margins | 0.108339995 |
| Quick Ratio | 0.844 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | strong_buy |
| Recommendation Mean | 1.35821 |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.860001 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 0.344414 |
| Regular Market Day High | 256.18 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 250.11 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 250.11 - 256.18 |
| Regular Market Open | 254.95 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 249.7 |
| Regular Market Price | 250.56 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,776,456,001 |
| Regular Market Volume | 51,829,799 |
| Return On Assets | 0.06928 |
| Return On Equity | 0.22286 |
| Revenue Growth | 0.136 |
| Revenue Per Share | 67.279 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.38150132 |
| Sector | Consumer Cyclical |
| Sector Disp | Consumer Cyclical |
| Sector Key | consumer-cyclical |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 3 |
| Shares Outstanding | 10,754,251,799 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.0081 |
| Shares Short | 87,641,036 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,772,150,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 81,891,881 |
| Short Name | Amazon.com, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.0089 |
| Short Ratio | 2.02 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | WA |
| Symbol | AMZN |
| Target High Price | 360.0 |
| Target Low Price | 175.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 281.1797 |
| Target Median Price | 285.0 |
| Total Cash | 123,028,996,096 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 11.461 |
| Total Debt | 178,546,999,296 |
| Total Revenue | 716,923,994,112 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | 7.17 |
| Trailing P E | 34.945606 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | 1.8129 |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 225.5845 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | 24.975494 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | 0.110714585 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 51,829,799 |
| Website | https://www.amazon.com |
| Zip | 98,109-5210 |