Amazon (AMZN) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Amazon's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
AMZN closed at $258.63 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is +3.5% from its 50-day average and +8.5% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -3.7%, trailing SPY by 6.8%. It remains 9.9% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +3.5% from its 50-day average and +8.5% from its 200-day average. Over three months, AMZN returned -3.7% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +3.5%
- vs 200-day
- +8.5%
- From 52W high
- -9.9%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
AMZN appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 27 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 21 call-side, 7 put-side and 1 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was 0.57, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-20 | #7 | — |
| 2026-08-19 | — | #18 |
| 2026-08-13 | #12 | — |
| 2026-08-12 | #6 | — |
| 2026-08-11 | #16 | — |
| 2026-08-05 | #18 | — |
| 2026-08-04 | #7 | — |
| 2026-07-31 | — | #3 |
| 2026-07-23 | #6 | — |
| 2026-07-21 | #11 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.086 calls, 0.050 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
7 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Amazon position in their latest filing, worth $6.1B in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pershing Square Capital Bill Ackman · AMZN | $2.4B | 17.39% | 11.45M | +19.2% increased | 2026-03-31 |
Baupost Group Seth Klarman · AMZN | $892M | 16.48% | 3.74M | +20.0% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Appaloosa Management David Tepper · AMZN | $1.2B | 15.43% | 5.00M | +15.7% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Third Point Daniel Loeb · AMZN | $417M | 8.91% | 1.75M | -9.8% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Altimeter Capital Brad Gerstner · AMZN | $578M | 5.88% | 2.43M | +16.1% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Duquesne Family Office Stanley Druckenmiller · AMZN | $129M | 2.48% | 541,600 | +1082.5% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · AMZN | $466M | 0.70% | 1.96M | +51.1% increased | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open AMZN Financials →How AMZN trades — the working manual
Amazon combines first-party and marketplace commerce, fulfillment, advertising and AWS. For the stock, consolidated revenue is less informative than the mix: cloud and advertising can carry very different margins from retail, while fulfillment efficiency and capital intensity determine how much reported growth becomes free cash flow.
What can move the tape
- 01AWS growth, backlog conversion and cloud operating margin as enterprise demand changes.
- 02North American and international retail demand, marketplace mix and fulfillment productivity.
- 03Advertising growth and its contribution to the consolidated margin profile.
- 04Capital expenditures, working capital and free-cash-flow conversion across investment cycles.
What can fool the read
- 01Large infrastructure programs can pressure cash flow before demand and utilization are visible.
- 02Retail competition and delivery expectations can keep fulfillment costs structurally high.
- 03Consumer weakness can affect merchandise mix even when headline sales remain resilient.
- 04Segment mix can make consolidated growth look stronger or weaker than the underlying economics.
Amazon triggered 1 issuer-level flag in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was AMZN on 2026-07-30: 1.7× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +5.9% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported AMZN events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-15 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
AMZN stock questions
Is AMZN stock in an uptrend?+
AMZN is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is +3.5% from its 50-day average and +8.5% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in AMZN mean?+
Amazon's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the AMZN 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are AMZN's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated AMZN Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no AMZN earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.