Evercore ISI’s Mark Mahaney joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to debate Amazon’s breakout AWS progress, his new $335 value goal and why he’s turning cautious on Meta amid hovering AI spending.
Amazon shares touched a report excessive Friday, rising over 9%, after robust quarterly outcomes that have been pushed by its rising cloud enterprise – AWS—which noticed a double-digit leap in gross sales to $30 billion.
| Ticker | Safety | Final | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMZN | AMAZON.COM INC. | 244.22 | +21.36 | +9.58% |
“AWS is rising at a tempo we have not seen since 2022, re-accelerating to twenty.2% year-over-year, our largest progress charge in 11 quarters,” CEO Andy Jassy informed buyers. He was much more bullish on future progress.
“Backlog grew to $200 billion by Q3 quarter finish and would not embody a number of unannounced new offers in October, which collectively are greater than our whole deal quantity for all of Q3. AWS is gaining momentum. Clients wish to be operating their core and AI workloads in AWS given its stronger performance, safety and operational efficiency and the dimensions I see in entrance of us provides me important confidence in what lies forward,” he added.
Jassy took over the position from then CEO and co-founder Jeff Bezos again in July 2021 and has pushed to increase the tech big into cloud computing, whereas additionally maintaining its retail enterprise, which incorporates Entire Meals, aggressive. Earlier this week, the corporate introduced it can eradicate 14,000 company jobs.
AMAZON CUTTING 14,000 CORPORATE JOBS
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos gives the keynote tackle on the Air Pressure Affiliation’s Annual Air, Area & Cyber Convention in Oxen Hill, MD, on September 19, 2018. JIM WATSON/AFP by way of Getty Photographs (Jeff Bezos) Photographer: David P (JIM WATSON/AFP / David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / iStock)
Amazon’s shares have superior about 11% this yr, trailing the Nasdaq’s 23% rise and the S&P 500’s 16% advance. Nonetheless, the final time the inventory traded close to these ranges was in February 2025.
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Over 600 exchange-traded funds rely Amazon as the highest holding, in response to Looking for Alpha which additionally listed out the highest leaders.

An AWS – Amazon Net Companies advert board proven inside Century Hyperlink Subject throughout an NFL sport between the Los Angeles Rams and the Seattle Seahawks on October 3, 2019, at Century Hyperlink Subject in Seattle, WA. (Jeff Halstead/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
ETF INFLOWS TOP $1 TRILLION IN LIGHT SPEED
ETFs That Rely Amazon because the Largest Holding
World X PureCap MSCI Shopper Discretionary ETF: 34.7% allocation
ProShares On-line Retail ETF: 24.5% allocation
Constancy MSCI Shopper Discretionary Index ETF: 22.6% allocation
Shopper Discretionary Choose Sector SPDR Fund: 22.3% allocation
Vanguard Shopper Discretionary ETF: 21.5% allocation
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| Ticker | Safety | Final | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GXPD | GLOBAL X FDS PURECAP MSCI CONSUMER DISCE | 26.95 | +0.97 | +3.75% |
| ONLN | PROSHARES TRUST ONLINE RETAIL ETF | 60.07 | +1.04 | +1.76% |
| FDIS | FIDELITY COVINGTON TRUST MSCI CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY | 102.68 | +2.65 | +2.65% |
| XLY | CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY SELECT SECTOR SPDR ETF | 239.93 | +6.15 | +2.63% |
| VCR | VANGUARD WORLD FUND CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY ETF | 395.62 | +10.07 | +2.61% |
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ETFs are having a report yr surpassing over $1 trillon of inflows in October, a degree traditionally reached round December.

