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This article first appeared on GuruFocus<\/a>.<\/p>\n Amazon (AMZN<\/a>, Financials<\/a>) received a Perfect 10 Smart Score the highest grade attainable<\/a>, indicating that analysts and big investors are behind the stock.<\/p>\n Amazon is hopeful because it is releasing new AI-powered devices and Amazon Web Services is growing. The average price objective for analysts is $267.88, which is 21% higher than where it is now.<\/p>\n In the past few weeks, Amazon has come out with a new line of Echo speakers, Fire TVs, and Ring cameras that work with Alexa+. Analysts say these products keep consumers connected to Amazon’s devices, Prime services, and e-commerce ecosystem, strengthening its hold.<\/p>\n Institutional investors seem to agree. Hedge funds boosted their Amazon holdings by about 14.2 million shares last quarter, reflecting rising confidence in the company’s long-term growth path. Technical indicators also remain positive, showing that momentum is still in Amazon’s favor.<\/p>\n Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs have both raised their targets to $280 and $275 respectively pointing to improving demand for cloud and AI services as key growth catalysts.<\/p>\n With shares up more than 22% over the past year, Amazon’s mix of innovation, data-driven products, and a rebound in AWS is giving investors more reasons to stay bullish heading into 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Amazon (AMZN, Financials) received a Perfect 10 Smart Score the highest grade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,1463,17835,289,290,18,19,9366,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-107891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-amazon-web-services","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-institutional-investors","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}