Amazon ‘highly attractive for long-term investors’

By Sam Boughedda

Amazon’s (NASDAQ:) share price target was cut to $150 from $170 per share by Evercore ISI analysts, who maintained an Outperform rating on the stock on Monday.

They told investors in a note that the firm is reducing its estimates and price target on the stock, but they still view it as a “buffet buy.”

“Consistent with our recently published ’23 Outlook report, we are lowering our estimates and Price Target on AMZN in the wake of several proprietary datapoints that suggest ongoing softness in Online Retail and Cloud Computing demand,” said analysts.

Evercore cut its Amazon 2023 and 2024 revenue estimates by 4% and 5% while also cutting operating income estimates for 2023 and 2024 by 9% and 8%, putting it below the Street.

“Evercore ISI’s most recent Retailer Sales Survey results (here) indicate that discretionary products remain slow relative to staples. Per the Survey results, discretionary goods sales slowed in late October and early November before picking up in the Thanksgiving week. But since Thanksgiving, discretionary sales have decelerated again. For key context, we estimate that Amazon Retail is well over 50% discretionary sales – perhaps in the 70%-80% range,” the analysts added.

“We continue to view AMZN as highly attractive for long-term investors as a DHQ (Dislocated High Quality) stock and see several Value Unlocks that we highlight in this report,” they concluded.

Amazon shares are down 1% in early Monday trading.