Lobbying Update: $4,360,000 of AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC lobbying was just disclosed

$4,360,000 of AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC lobbying was just disclosed, from Q2 of 2026, in a new Lobbying Disclosure Act filing.

This included lobbying on issues like:

"Issues related to drones and air cargo, including implementation of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2024 (P.L. 118-63). Issues related to Amazon's Climate Pledge, including development of carbon-free energy sources, renewable energy deployment, grid infrastructure, stability, and storage; energy efficient standards; and the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act (SPEED Act) (H.R. 4776). Issues related to taxes, digital goods and services, renewable energy tax credits, and international and corporate taxation, including H.R. 1 - To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14. (P.L. 119-21), the United States-Taiwan Expedited Double Tax Relief Act (H.R. 33 / S. 199), and implementation of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (P.L. 115-97). Issues related to broadband access and affordability, satellite communications, space safety, device accessibility, Section 230 reform, content moderation, online video, and the Universal Service Fund (USF). Issues related to intellectual property, including the NO FAKES Act (S. 1367), counterfeits, music licensing, and issues related to patent reform, International Trade Commission patent investigations, intermediary liability, and patent reform, including the RESTORE Patents Act (H.R. 1574 / S. 708), the Patent Eligibility Restoration (PERA) Act (H.R. 3152 / S. 1546), and the Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act (H.R. 3160 / S. 1553). Issues related to data protection, encryption, data retention, data breach notification, data security, cross border data flows, privacy, law enforcement access, fraud prevention, product safety related to the sale of counterfeit and/or stolen products, including the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (S. 1404 / H.R. 2853), and cloud computing. Issues related to artificial intelligence safety and research and development, including the CREATE AI Act (H.R. 2385). Issues related to sports licensing, including the Protect College Sports Act (S. 4668). Issues related to cybersecurity, including critical infrastructure protection, payments security, cloud security, authentication, government procurement, cybersecurity incident reporting, and artificial intelligence, including the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (H.R. 8800), and implementation of the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 119-60). Issues related to postal rates, service performance, and the transportation of hazardous materials. Issues related to cybersecurity, cloud security, IT modernization, and government procurement, including the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (H.R. 8800), implementation of the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 119-60), the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act (H.R. 1695 / S. 931), the Protecting AI and Cloud Competition in Defense Act of 2025 (H.R. 3434 / S. 1775), implementation of the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (P.L. 118-159), and the Federal Improvement in Technology (FIT) Procurement Act (H.R. 4123). Issues related to immigration, high-skilled immigration, and non-immigrant visas, including issues related to employment-based visas, green card backlog, and the STEM visa exemption provision. Issues related to US trade policy, including USMCA, the World Trade Organization, the World Customs Organization, China, country of origin labeling, US customs policy and procedures, US tariffs, foreign direct investment, issues related to domestic semiconductor manufacturing and research, export controls, sanctions, and supply chain, and other trade practices, including the COOL Online Act (S.294), and the ENFORCE Act (draft bill - no numbers). Issues related to technology, procurement, and space policy, including the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (H.R. 8800), the FoRGED Act (S. 5618), and implementation of the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 119-60). Issues related to IT systems improvements and cloud computing technology, including the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Year 2027 (S. 4615) and implementation of the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 119-60). Issues related to payment processing, corporate governance, debit reforms, financial innovation and technology, lending, gift cards, money transmission licensing, fraud prevention, payment authentication, data security, the CFPB open banking rule, the Credit Card Competition Act (S. 3623 / H.R. 7035), implementation of the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2026 (P.L. 119-75), and financial inclusion. Issues related to surface transportation, including autonomous vehicles, community infrastructure investments, hazardous materials, U.S. internal supply chain and goods movement, and maritime transportation; issues related to infrastructure. Issues related to USDA SNAP online purchasing, including reauthorization of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-334), Electronic Benefit Transfer, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and food safety. Issues related to e-commerce opportunities for small businesses. Issues related to veterans hiring and training, employee compensation and benefits, workplace safety, competition, contracting, and minimum wage, including the Warehouse Worker Protection Act (S. 2613), and the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 4746). Issues related to job training in the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (P.L. 117-167). Issues related to IT modernization, cybersecurity, FedRAMP, open data, and government procurement, including implementation of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (P.L. 118-31, implementation of the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (P.L. 118-159), implementation of Federal Acquisition Reform; implementation of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (P.L. 115-435), the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act of 2025 (H.R. 9747), the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act (H.R. 5457 / S. 1956), implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act (P.L. 107-347), the Federal Improvement in Technology (FIT) Procurement Act (H.R. 4123), implementation of the Federal Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act of 2023 (P.L. 117-263), and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (H.R. 8800). Issues related to IT modernization, cloud computing, and IP in general appropriations and the federal budget. Issues related to health information technology, Medicare, healthcare, pharmacy policy, and telehealth. Issues related to Amazons Climate Pledge, including carbon-free energy development, grid modernization, energy and grid reliability, Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act (SPEED Act) (H.R.4776), and Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026 (H.R. 4553/S.3293)"

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AMZN Congressional Stock Trading

Members of Congress have traded $AMZN stock 18 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 10 have been purchases and 8 have been sales.

Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $AMZN stock by members of Congress over the last 6 months:

REPRESENTATIVE MATTHEW VAN EPPS sold up to $15,000 on 06/16.
REPRESENTATIVE DAVID TAYLOR has traded it 4 times. They made 3 purchases worth up to $45,000 on 02/26, 02/09, 01/29 and 1 sale worth up to $15,000 on 06/05.
REPRESENTATIVE DAN CRENSHAW sold up to $15,000 on 06/01.
REPRESENTATIVE GILBERT RAY CISNEROS, JR. has traded it 7 times. They made 5 purchases worth up to $75,000 on 04/22, 04/14, 03/16, 02/10, 01/30 and 2 sales worth up to $30,000 on 03/16, 03/13.
SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN purchased up to $15,000 on 03/30.
REPRESENTATIVE MARK ALFORD sold up to $15,000 on 03/16.
REPRESENTATIVE JONATHAN L. JACKSON has traded it 3 times. They made 1 purchase worth up to $15,000 on 02/05 and 2 sales worth up to $30,000 on 03/09, 02/11.

To track congressional stock trading, check out Quiver Quantitative's congressional trading dashboard. You can access data on congressional stock trades through the Quiver Quantitative API Congress trades endpoint.

AMZN Insider Trading Activity

AMZN insiders have traded $AMZN stock on the open market 70 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 0 have been purchases and 70 have been sales.

Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $AMZN stock by insiders over the last 6 months:

ANDREW R JASSY (President and CEO) has made 0 purchases and 12 sales selling 102,224 shares for an estimated $25,872,519.
DOUGLAS J HERRINGTON (CEO Worldwide Amazon Stores) has made 0 purchases and 23 sales selling 75,731 shares for an estimated $18,989,176.
MATTHEW S GARMAN (CEO Amazon Web Services) has made 0 purchases and 13 sales selling 44,693 shares for an estimated $10,730,771.
DAVID ZAPOLSKY (Senior Vice President) has made 0 purchases and 12 sales selling 33,199 shares for an estimated $7,762,866.
JONATHAN RUBINSTEIN has made 0 purchases and 2 sales selling 7,555 shares for an estimated $2,012,552.
SHELLEY REYNOLDS (Vice President) has made 0 purchases and 7 sales selling 5,058 shares for an estimated $1,174,895.
KEITH BRIAN ALEXANDER sold 900 shares for an estimated $183,492

To track insider transactions, check out Quiver Quantitative's insider trading dashboard. You can access data on insider stock transactions through the Quiver Quantitative API insider transaction endpoint.

AMZN Hedge Fund Activity

We have seen 2,853 institutional investors add shares of AMZN stock to their portfolio, and 2,379 decrease their positions in their most recent quarter.

Here are some of the largest recent moves:

J. STERN & CO. LLP removed 87,634,428 shares (-99.6%) from their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $18,057,950,233
CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS added 28,398,233 shares (+31.5%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $5,851,739,891
FMR LLC added 27,227,887 shares (+8.2%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $5,610,578,395
CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS removed 25,645,759 shares (-36.9%) from their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $5,284,565,099
CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS added 16,651,580 shares (+49.3%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $3,431,224,574
SANDERS CAPITAL, LLC added 14,918,245 shares (+100.1%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $3,074,053,564
MORGAN STANLEY added 12,345,516 shares (+7.6%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $2,543,917,026

To track hedge funds' stock portfolios, check out Quiver Quantitative's institutional holdings dashboard. You can access data on hedge funds moves and 13F filings through the Quiver Quantitative API 13F endpoint.

AMZN Analyst Ratings

Wall Street analysts have issued reports on $AMZN in the last several months. We have seen 8 firms issue buy ratings on the stock, and 0 firms issue sell ratings.

Here are some recent analyst ratings:

RBC Capital issued a "Outperform" rating on 04/30/2026
Piper Sandler issued a "Overweight" rating on 04/30/2026
Guggenheim issued a "Buy" rating on 04/30/2026
Barclays issued a "Overweight" rating on 04/30/2026
Benchmark issued a "Buy" rating on 04/30/2026
Evercore ISI Group issued a "Outperform" rating on 04/30/2026
Wells Fargo issued a "Overweight" rating on 04/30/2026

To track analyst ratings and price targets for AMZN, check out Quiver Quantitative's $AMZN forecast page.

AMZN Price Targets

Multiple analysts have issued price targets for $AMZN recently. We have seen 33 analysts offer price targets for $AMZN in the last 6 months, with a median target of $320.0.

Here are some recent targets:

John Blackledge from TD Cowen set a target price of $340.0 on 07/08/2026
Ken Gawrelski from Wells Fargo set a target price of $313.0 on 07/02/2026
Youssef Squali from Truist Securities set a target price of $320.0 on 05/29/2026
Mark Kelley from Stifel set a target price of $319.0 on 05/01/2026
Daniel L. Kurnos from Benchmark set a target price of $370.0 on 04/30/2026
Laura Martin from Needham set a target price of $300.0 on 04/30/2026
Deepak Mathivanan from Cantor Fitzgerald set a target price of $330.0 on 04/30/2026

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