AMZN
Amazon.com, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-08-28The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions through online and physical stores in North America and internationally. It operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company's products offered through its stores include merchandise and content purchased for resale; and products offered by third-party sellers. It also manufactur…
Management team
- Mr. Matthew S. Garman · Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web SeriesFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Douglas J. Herrington · Chief Executive Officer of Worldwide Amazon StoresFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. David A. Zapolsky J.D. · Senior VP, Chief Global Affairs & Legal OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Brian T. Olsavsky · Senior VP & CFOFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
−0.4 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The surviving evidence portrays a company with rising top- and bottom-line metrics between the two most recent fiscal quarters: revenue increased from $181,519,000,000 in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-04-22) to $200,606,000,000 in Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-07-22), and operating income moved from $23,852,000,000 to $27,461,000,000 over the same pair of quarters. Net income and diluted EPS also rose markedly, with net income reported at $30,255,000,000 in Q1 2026 versus $62,647,000,000 in Q2 2026, and diluted EPS at $2.78 versus $5.75.
Balance-sheet and cash-flow signals coexist with higher long-term leverage: long-term debt is shown at $132,995,000,000 as of 2026-06-30 while cash and cash equivalents are $78,213,000,000, and trailing twelve-month metrics report operating income of $87,906,000,000 and OCF (TTM) of $139,459,000,000. The packet also documents elevated volatility (30-day annualized +54.0%), a market cap of $2,764,100,715,961 at a market price of $256.26 (2026-08-27), and a cautious evidence balance with high confidence.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue rose from $181,519,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) to $200,606,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001018724-26-000026Operating income increased from $23,852,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) to $27,461,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001018724-26-000014Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
The Form 10-K filed 6 Feb 2026 added explicit risk-factor language highlighting government regulation and trade measures (including tariffs and restrictions on foreign ownership), and expanded language on regulation across numerous business lines.
Item 1A risk-factor diff · 0001018724-26-000004 vs 0001018724-25-000004The Form 10-K filed 6 Feb 2026 added or expanded risk-factor text calling out reliance on a limited number of shipping companies and transportation systems and the potential for staffing or performance problems at those providers to negatively affect operations and customer experience.
Item 1A risk-factor diff · 0001018724-26-000004 vs 0001018724-25-000004Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Momentum over the past 6 months is +23.2%, ranking in the 82th percentile of the 547-stock research universe as of 2026-08-27.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-08-27weakened in debateShorter-term momentum is mixed: 3-month momentum is -6.5% and the 12_1 momentum measure is -2.6%, with the 12_1 momentum ranking in the 31th percentile of the universe as of 2026-08-27.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-08-27weakened in debateReads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
The latest reported 13F quarter is as of 2026-03-31 and shows total reported institutional holdings of $1449.82B with 5,944 holders; reported value declined 10.2% quarter-over-quarter and holder count fell by 108.
13F holdings · 5944 filers · as of 2026-03-31BlackRock, Inc. is shown as the largest reported institutional holder with a reported value of $153.43B in the 13F data for the period ended 2026-03-31.
13F holdings · 5944 filers · as of 2026-03-31Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
A headline on 27 August 2026 reports Jeffrey Bezos donated over 415,000 Amazon shares to charitable organizations.
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-08-27Multiple outlets ran headlines on 27 August 2026 that Amazon is expanding its Nvidia exposure, describing a substantial GPU buildout for Amazon Web Services.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-08-27Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Andrew R. Jassy (President and CEO) reported sales on 2026-08-21 of $1.9M (7,478 shares) and $824k (3,197 shares) under a stated 10b5-1 plan.
Form 4 · Jassy Andrew R (President and CEO) · $0 code M · 2026-08-21Brian T. Olsavsky (Senior Vice President and CFO) reported a sale on 2026-08-21 of $1.6M (6,172 shares) under a stated 10b5-1 plan.
Form 4 · Olsavsky Brian T (Senior Vice President and CFO) · $0 code M · 2026-08-21Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The market price used in these inputs is $256.26 on 2026-08-27 and the market capitalization is $2,764,100,715,961.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeThe trailing twelve-month price-to-earnings ratio reported is 21.07, based on EPS (TTM) of $12.16.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Multiple recent quarterly and filing entries show clear quarter-over-quarter improvement in top-line and profitability metrics: revenue, operating income, net income, and diluted EPS all rose materially from Q1 to Q2 2026, and operating cash flow for the quarter and six-month period increased versus the prior year. Point-in-time balances also show growing cash and a sizable increase in stockholders' equity, while technical and momentum indicators (6-month momentum and a golden cross) provide a complementary market-read that has ranked favorably versus the research universe. These pieces jointly support a favorable read based on stronger reported earnings quality and cash generation in the provided period, though the filings also note inventory sensitivity and regulatory/transportation risk and the balance sheet shows higher long-term debt that merit monitoring. The favorable evidence is drawn from recent SEC-filed quarterly reports and audited-form filings; the most material opposing items (debt rise, inventory sensitivity, insider sales, and elevated volatility) are also documented in those sources and are addressed by the improvement in operating cash and equity metrics.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.34
40 surviving claims rest on 19 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 22% of them, and 96% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence set is moderately robust: 40 surviving claims draw on 19 distinct sources, so information is not overly concentrated, but a single analyst contributes a noticeable share of the claims and the desk’s high survival rate means few items were overturned during review. Together this implies the read is fairly stable on reported filings and market signals, yet still somewhat sensitive to updates from high-weight contributors or new filings that could revise key point-in-time balances.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 1st of 3 in Internet Retail (as of 2026-08-27).
90-day volatility ranks 3rd of 3 in Internet Retail (as of 2026-08-27).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment — when the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.
What this was built from
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here — no outside knowledge, no browsing — and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.
13 filings· 3 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.9 to the score
12 documents· 2 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes−0.5 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash+0.0 to the score
3 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.2 to the score
7 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
6 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−1.0 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
Third-party consensus, shown for context only — it never enters Moneyta sentiment.
Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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