Amazon Stock Today: AMZN Rises as AI Story Outshines Italian Police Raids

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is trading higher on Monday, November 24, 2025, as Wall Street leans into the company’s artificial intelligence and cloud narrative even while fresh tax and smuggling probes in Italy grab headlines.

As of early afternoon on Monday, Amazon shares are trading around $220–$225, up roughly 1.5–2% on the day and extending Friday’s rebound. That leaves the stock about 15% below its 52‑week high near $259, but more than a third above its one‑year low around $161. ^[1]

Despite a “blowout” quarterly report at the end of October, Amazon’s stock is only modestly higher year-to-date — roughly flat to up low single digits depending on the benchmark, lagging the broader market’s double‑digit gains. ^[2]

Amazon stock today: price, range, and valuation snapshot

Market data and regulatory filings published today paint a clear picture of where AMZN sits technically and fundamentally:

Price and range: Amazon opened Monday around $220.69, with recent trading in the low‑$220s. Over the past 12 months the stock has traded between $161.38 and $258.60, putting it roughly 14–15% below its 52‑week high and almost 37% above its low. ^[3]
Moving averages: The 50‑day simple moving average sits near $227.77, while the 200‑day is close to $222.21, leaving AMZN hovering just under its short‑term trend line and roughly in line with its longer‑term average. ^[4]
Market cap and multiples: At current levels, Amazon’s market capitalization is about $2.36 trillion, with a P/E ratio around 33–34 and a PEG ratio near 1.5, plus a beta of ~1.3, underscoring both its growth profile and sensitivity to broader tech sentiment. ^[5]

Total-return estimates suggest Amazon is up around 0.6% in 2025 and roughly 11% over the last 12 months, far below its explosive gains in 2023–2024 but still positive. ^[6]

Italian police raids: tax and smuggling probe tests investor nerves

The most eye‑catching Amazon headline today comes from Europe, where Italian authorities have intensified a high‑stakes investigation into alleged smuggling of Chinese goods and related tax violations.

According to court documents and reports cited by Reuters, tax and customs police raided two Amazon locations in Italy on Monday:

A logistics hub in Cividate al Piano, near Bergamo in northern Italy
Amazon’s Italian headquarters in central Milan

Authorities seized around 5,000 products — including items like toys, phone accessories, air fryers, pens and scissors — along with IT equipment, as part of a probe into whether Chinese goods have been entering the EU and then Italy without proper customs duties and value‑added tax (VAT) being paid. ^[7]

Prosecutors allege that Amazon’s marketplace may have acted as a kind of “Trojan horse” for untaxed Chinese imports, and that the smuggling angle stems from an earlier €1.2 billion tax‑evasion case involving online sales between 2019 and 2021. The investigation could ultimately involve hundreds of thousands of products and potentially extend to multiple EU countries, with Eurojust already looped in. ^[8]

Separate coverage from TipRanks notes that the Italian tax bill — including penalties and interest — could, in a worst‑case scenario, climb toward €3 billion, although no final assessment has been announced. ^[9]

So far, Amazon has said in prior statements that it is committed to complying with tax laws and is reviewing a settlement proposal from Italy’s tax agency, but it has not issued a detailed new response to today’s raids. ^[10]

Market reaction: shrug, for now

Remarkably, AMZN is rising despite the legal headlines. Pre‑market reports showed the stock up roughly 1–2% as investors appeared more focused on Amazon’s AI and cloud momentum than on the Italian probe’s long‑term financial impact. ^[11]

For now, the market seems to be treating the investigation as a manageable regulatory overhang rather than a thesis‑breaking event, but it clearly adds another layer of uncertainty in Europe, where regulators have already scrutinized Amazon’s tax practices and marketplace model.

AI infrastructure boom: 900+ data centers and a $38 billion OpenAI cloud deal

Balancing the legal risk is Amazon’s rapidly expanding AI infrastructure story, which is dominating much of today’s coverage.

900+ data centers in 50+ countries

A new report, highlighted by Seeking Alpha and Benzinga and based on documents reviewed by Bloomberg and investigative outlet SourceMaterial, reveals that Amazon Web Services (AWS) now operates more than 900 data‑center facilities across over 50 countries — far more than many investors realized. ^[12]

Crucially:

AWS doesn’t rely solely on massive, flagship campuses in places like Virginia and Oregon.
It also uses hundreds of colocation (“colo”) and edge sites, which together contribute a significant share of its global computing power and allow it to quickly spin up capacity near major cities. ^[13]

Environmental groups have raised concerns about the strain such rapid expansion could put on power grids and fossil‑fuel usage, even as Amazon invests heavily in clean‑energy projects to offset that footprint. ^[14]

AWS growth, custom chips and global AI build‑out

Several recent analyses (including from Motley Fool via Finviz and Reuters) outline just how central AWS is to the AI race:

In Q3 2025, AWS generated about $33 billion in revenue, up just over 20% year over year, its fastest growth since 2022. ^[15]
AWS still holds roughly 29% of the global cloud‑infrastructure market, ahead of Microsoft Azure (~20%) and Google Cloud (~13%), even as those rivals grow faster from smaller bases. ^[16]
Amazon has added more than 3.8 gigawatts of data‑center power capacity over the past 12 months and plans to double its already‑doubled capacity again by 2027, a build‑out aimed squarely at AI training and inference workloads. ^[17]
Custom AI chips Trainium and Inferentia are becoming multibillion‑dollar businesses in their own right, with Trainium2 revenue reportedly growing triple‑digit percentages quarter over quarter, and a large AI cluster expected to scale from ~500,000 to 1 million Trainium2 chips by the end of 2025. ^[18]

At the same time, Amazon gives customers access to GPUs from Nvidia, AMD and Intel, promoting a “no vendor lock‑in” pitch for AI workloads. ^[19]

The $38 billion OpenAI deal and cheap capital

Earlier this month, Reuters reported that Amazon signed a $38 billion multi‑year cloud deal with OpenAI, positioning AWS to run some of OpenAI’s most advanced generative‑AI workloads on EC2 UltraServers powered by Nvidia’s latest chips and Amazon’s own silicon. Analysts estimate the contract could boost AWS’s backlog by around 20% from a base of roughly $200 billion at the end of Q3. ^[20]

24/7 Wall St. noted that Amazon recently issued $15 billion of bonds, including a rare 40‑year tranche, and saw demand swell to almost $80 billion, allowing it to borrow at yields only about 80 basis points above U.S. Treasuries. The article frames this as a bond‑market vote of confidence that Amazon can spend tens of billions per year on AI infrastructure without destroying shareholder value. ^[21]

When you add Amazon’s AI megaprojects — such as the $11 billion “Project Rainier” AI data center in Indiana and large‑scale deployments with partners like Anthropic — it’s clear that Wall Street is increasingly viewing Amazon as a picks‑and‑shovels powerhouse for the AI economy, not just an e‑commerce giant. ^[22]

Analyst sentiment: price targets cluster around $300 and beyond

Analysts were already bullish on AMZN heading into today’s session, and fresh notes keep piling on:

Bank of America Securities: Analyst Justin Post reiterated a Buy rating with a $303 price target, citing Amazon as one of the top cloud plays and highlighting a new partnership with Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN, which aims to deploy 150,000 AI accelerators in a Riyadh “AI Zone” built around Nvidia’s GB300 hardware and Amazon’s Trainium chips. ^[23]
Bernstein: Mark Shmulik also reaffirmed a Buy rating with a $300 target, reinforcing the bullish case around AWS and Amazon’s AI road map. ^[24]
BMO Capital Markets: BMO today reaffirmed its Outperform rating and $300 price target, pointing to AWS re‑acceleration and the monetization potential of Amazon’s advertising and retail segments heading into the holiday season. ^[25]

MarketBeat’s latest consensus data shows:

Average Wall Street target price around $295
Rating split: 2 “Strong Buy,” 56 “Buy,” 3 “Hold” and 1 “Sell,” adding up to an overall “Moderate Buy” consensus. ^[26]

Several firms — including New Street Research, Citizens JMP, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and Oppenheimer — have issued updated targets in a $270–$340 range following Amazon’s latest earnings beat. ^[27]

Earnings backdrop: strong quarter, but investors worry about AI cash burn

Underneath today’s headlines is a surprisingly robust earnings picture:

For the most recent quarter (reported October 30), Amazon delivered EPS of $1.95, well ahead of the $1.57 consensus, on revenue of $180.17 billion versus analyst estimates around $177.5 billion.
Revenue grew 13.4% year over year, while net margin hit about 10.5% and return on equity reached nearly 24%. ^[28]
North American e‑commerce revenue climbed from roughly $96 billion to $106 billion year over year, and AWS revenue grew from $27 billion to $33 billion, reinforcing Amazon’s dual engines of retail and cloud. ^[29]

Yet, as 24/7 Wall St. has highlighted, AMZN shares are up only about 7% this year despite those numbers, trailing an S&P 500 that is higher by roughly 13%. The article argues that investors are uneasy about two things:

The enormous capital spending required for AI, which some estimates peg at $100–125 billion in 2025 alone, and
Concerns about how quickly those AI investments will translate into durable profits. ^[30]

The October AWS outage, which knocked out services for over a thousand companies, has also fed debate about operational risk as Amazon scales its infrastructure. ^[31]

Institutional moves: some trimming, some topping up

Today’s filings also shed light on how professional investors are positioned in Amazon:

L.M. Kohn & Company trimmed its Amazon stake by about 9.6%, selling 8,309 shares and leaving it with roughly 77,836 shares (still its fourth‑largest holding). The same report notes recent insider selling totaling over 43,000 shares (about $10.6 million) in the last 90 days, including sales by CEO Doug Herrington and director Jonathan Rubinstein. ^[32]
Buck Wealth Strategies LLC, by contrast, raised its AMZN position by 13.1% in the second quarter, taking its holdings to roughly 69,268 shares valued at about $15.2 million, with Amazon now representing about 2.3% of its portfolio. ^[33]

Overall, about 72% of Amazon’s shares are held by institutions, underscoring how heavily owned the stock already is among professional money managers. ^[34]

Key levels and themes for AMZN traders to watch

For traders and longer‑term investors watching Amazon into year‑end, today’s action highlights several key levels and storylines:

Technical levels
- Support: The psychologically important $200 area remains a key downside level, with the one‑year low much lower at $161.38. ^[35]
- Trend lines: The 200‑day moving average (≈$222) is acting as a gravity point. Sustained closes above the 50‑day (~$228) would strengthen the case for a retest of the high‑$240s to mid‑$250s. ^[36]
- Resistance: The $254–$259 zone — around the all‑time and 52‑week highs — is the obvious ceiling bulls would need to clear for a fresh leg higher. ^[37]
Fundamental drivers
- AI & AWS: Multi‑year AI infrastructure spending, the 900+ data‑center footprint, custom silicon, and mega‑deals with OpenAI, Anthropic and HUMAIN all support the long‑term growth narrative. ^[38]
- Regulation & tax: The Italian smuggling and VAT investigation adds a new regulatory risk layer in Europe that could result in fines, settlements or changes to marketplace practices. ^[39]
- Capital intensity: Amazon’s AI cash burn — financed in part by cheap, long‑dated debt — is both a competitive advantage and a potential pressure point if AI returns take longer than expected to materialize. ^[40]

Bottom line: a tug‑of‑war between AI upside and regulatory risk

On November 24, 2025, AMZN stock is climbing even as Italian prosecutors step up pressure on the company’s European tax and customs practices. That divergence tells you a lot about where investor focus is right now:

The bull case centers on AWS’s scale, Amazon’s custom AI hardware, and long‑duration cloud contracts — including the $38 billion OpenAI deal — all supported by a balance sheet strong enough to secure near‑sovereign borrowing terms. ^[41]
The bear case emphasizes investigation risk in Europe, the sheer size of Amazon’s AI capex plan, and the possibility that the stock’s lukewarm performance in 2025 reflects investor fatigue with “AI promise, cash now.” ^[42]

For now, the market is voting with its feet: Amazon stock is green on the day, with AI and cloud optimism outweighing near‑term legal headlines. Whether that remains true into 2026 will likely depend on two things — how expensive the regulatory clean‑up becomes and whether AWS’s AI backlog turns into cash fast enough to justify Amazon’s massive infrastructure bet.

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