Amazon (AMZN) Stock Price, Earnings, and News

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Amazon.com, Inc. trades under the ticker AMZN on the Nasdaq. The quote above shows the latest price in U.S. dollars and the change from the previous close. The stock’s value rests on two very different businesses: a high-volume retail operation and Amazon Web Services (AWS), its cloud computing unit.

How to read the AMZN quote

• Price and percentage change compare the latest trade with the previous close, which is the final price of the prior regular session.
• Day range is the lowest and highest price traded in the current or most recent session; the 52-week range shows the same for the past year, so you can see how close the stock is to its yearly extremes.
• Volume counts the shares traded in the session. A large move on unusually heavy volume reflects broader participation than the same move on light trading.
• Exchange: NMS is the code for the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq tier where AMZN is listed.
• The 1D to 1Y figures are percentage returns over each window. They are not annualized, so windows of different length cannot be compared directly.

The timestamp shows when the price was captured. A quote taken after the 4:00 p.m. ET close usually reflects regular-session trading and may not include after-hours moves.

What moves Amazon stock

Amazon reports results in three segments: North America, International and AWS. Retail generates most of the revenue. AWS gets close attention from analysts because cloud growth carries much of the market’s view of Amazon’s long-term profit potential.

Capital expenditures have become a central issue. Amazon is spending heavily on AI infrastructure, custom AI chips and a satellite internet network, which can weigh on the stock when investors question the returns big tech companies will earn on that spending. Spending forecasts from peers such as Alphabet can move AMZN too. As one of the largest companies by market value, Amazon carries heavy weight in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes, so broad market swings feed into its price.

Amazon earnings and the expected move

Amazon reports quarterly, and it has released results after the closing bell, so the first reaction appears in after-hours trading and the next session, where moves can be large. Ahead of each report, traders estimate an expected move: the size of the swing options prices imply, in either direction, which reflects market pricing rather than a forecast.

Hypothetical example: if AMZN trades at $200 and options imply a 6% move, the implied range is about $188 to $212 by the expiration date. The actual move can be larger or smaller.

When you read a report, compare reported revenue, earnings per share and AWS growth against the analyst consensus, and look at management’s guidance for the next quarter. The stock often reacts more to results against expectations and to guidance than to year-over-year growth alone.