Research note · 1 October 2026

Amazon.com Inc AMZN

LONG price $248.23 · base case $308.33 · expected +25% over 540 days

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The call

Amazon's core operating engines—AWS, advertising, and retail—are delivering robust, accelerating earnings growth, but the market is discounting the stock at a trailing P/E of 19.97x due to a $173.0 billion TTM capex cycle that has pushed FCF to negative $9.0 billion and reliance on a one-off mark-to-market gain. Base case value is $308.33 vs. price $248.23, representing a 24.2% upside. The current valuation fails to capture the sustainable profitability of the cloud and digital ad franchises.

Why the opportunity exists, in the desk's view: complexity.

What decides the case

• AI infrastructure capex normalization
• Non-recurring investment gains reliance

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