Chart of the Day: Amazon - 2 Trillion and Growing

The Chart of the Day belongs to the e-commerce company Amazon.com (AMZN) . I found the stock by using Barchart's powerful screening functions to find stocks with the highest technical buy signals, highest Weighted Alpha, superior current momentum and having a Trend Seeker buy signal then used the Flipchart feature to review the charts for consistent price appreciation. Since the Trend Seeker signaled a buy on 6/11 the stock gained 5.15%.

AMZN Price vs Daily Moving Averages

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, 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. Amazon.com, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Barchart Technical Indicators:

  • 100% technical buy signals
  • 54.23+ Weighted Alpha
  • 51.17% gain in the last year
  • Trend Seeker buy signal
  • Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
  • 12 new highs and up 11.69% in the last month
  • Relative Strength Index 64.82%
  • Technical support level at $190.88
  • Recently traded at $197.20 with 50 day moving average of $189.03

Fundamental Factors:

  • Market Cap $2.01 trillion
  • P/E 54.65
  • Revenue expected to grow 11.10% this year and increase another 11.00% next year
  • Earnings estimated to increase 56.90% this year, an additional 27.00% next year and continue to compound at an annual rate of 30.50% for the next 5 years

Analysts and Investor Sentiment \-- I don't buy stocks because everyone else is buying but I do realize that if major firms and investors are dumping a stock it's hard to make money swimming against the tide:

  • Wall Street analysts issued 44 strong buy,15 buy and 2 hold recommendation
  • Analysts have price targets between $180 and $500 with a consensus at $225
  • Value Line rates the stock its average rating of 3 with price targets between $159 and $292 with a mid-point of $226 for a 15% gain
  • CFRAs MarketScope has a 4 star buy rating and a price target of $233
  • MorningStar gives the stock an average 3 star rating with a Fair Value of $193
  • 1,210,000 investors monitor the stock on Seeking Alpha

Additional disclosure: The Barchart Chart of the Day highlights stocks that are experiencing exceptional current price appreciation. They are not intended to be buy recommendations as these stocks are extremely volatile and speculative. Should you decide to add one of these stocks to your investment portfolio it is highly suggested you follow a predetermined diversification and moving stop loss discipline that is consistent with your personal investment risk tolerance and reevaluate your stop losses at least on a weekly basis.

On the date of publication, Jim Van Meerten did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes. For more information please view the Barchart Disclosure Policy here.