Amazon.com (AMZN) closed at $240.35 on Oct 30, 2026, down 1.4% on the day. The stock is down 3.2% over the past month, down 15.4% over three months, up 4.1% year to date and up 7.8% over the past year (since Oct 30, 2025). It trades 16.3% below its 52-week high of $287.20 and 22.6% above its 52-week low of $196.00. The close sits below its 50-day moving average ($254.28) and below its 200-day moving average ($243.40).
NextPick tracks AMZN in its E-commerce basket alongside SHOP, MELI, EBAY, SE, CPNG, W, CHWY and ETSY. As of Oct 30, 2026, the basket's money-flow score is 5 (neutral), and the basket is down 1.6% over five sessions. Over the past month AMZN ranks 7th of 9 basket members by price change.
Over its last 8 reports the stock moved an average of 5.6% on the first trading day after earnings, beating the options-implied move in 3 of 8.
AMZN options were pricing 45% at-the-money implied volatility on Oct 26, 2026, an IV rank of 78 over the past year. Form 4 filings over the last 90 days show no open-market purchases and 27 open-market sales by insiders. Short interest was 0.9% of float (2.6 days to cover) as of Oct 15, 2026.
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Over the last 8 reports, AMZN moved an average of 5.6% on the first trading day after earnings. The move beat the options-implied move in 3 of 8 reports.
No — the Oct 30, 2026 close of $240.35 is 1.3% below the 200-day average of $243.40.
AMZN closed 16.3% below its 52-week high of $287.20.
NextPick groups AMZN with SHOP, MELI, EBAY, SE, CPNG, W, CHWY and ETSY in its E-commerce basket.
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.
