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The stock blinked. The thesis didn’t.
Amazon got a little slap on the wrist Thursday, falling nearly 2% while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 were both in the green. Not exactly the kind of action you want if you’re trying to look like a market darling — but Wall Street basically shrugged and said, “we’re still here for the AWS story.”
Why analysts are still in the ring
Rosenblatt kicked off coverage on Amazon with a Buy and a $335 price target, arguing investors are underestimating the company’s AI upside. The big call: AWS growth could hit 45% by the end of 2026, which is nicely above the Street’s 38% expectation.
Citizens piled on with a Market Outperform rating and $315 price target, pointing to strong demand from names like OpenAI and Anthropic as evidence that cloud infrastructure demand still has room to run. In other words: AI isn’t just a chatbot party trick anymore — it’s becoming a real load-bearing beam for cloud spending.
Why you should care
If AWS keeps outgrowing expectations, Amazon’s stock story gets a lot more interesting. That’s because the cloud unit isn’t just another business line — it’s the profit engine that can help offset slower stretches in retail and keep the whole Amazon machine moving.
And if the AI buildout keeps humming, the market may eventually stop treating Amazon like a sleepy e-commerce giant and start pricing it more like a hyperscaler with a very expensive hobby that might actually pay off.
Big picture: The stock dipped, but the analyst takeaway was basically: don’t confuse a weak trading day with a weak long-term setup. Amazon’s AI and AWS narrative is still very much alive.