As Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) looks to expand its presence in the country of India, today they’ve announced the acquisition of a Indian-based payment processor called Emvantage Payments PVT Ltd. The terms of the deal and price were not disclosed.
According to the Emvantage website, the company provides a PCI-DSS V3.1 certified payment platform, which they claim is one of the best in industry standards in data security, transaction processing, and fraud prevention.
This acquisition will likely help Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) make further inroads into the country, while also ensuring that they have top-of-the-line security and fraud prevention built into their service. With India’s ecommerce market expected to be worth a staggering $220 billion by 2025, Amazon seems to have the right motives for this expansion. Shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) are trading up $9.80 or 1.93% in the premarket this morning.
The stock closed at $507.08 during the last trading session. It is up 14.33% since July 10, 2015 and is uptrending. It has outperformed the S&P500 by 23.20%.
From a total of 26 analysts covering Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock, 22 rate it a “Buy”, 0 a “Sell”, and 4 a “Hold”. This means that 85% of the ratings are positive. The highest target price is $900.0 while the lowest target price is $525. The mean of all analyst targets is $734.31 which is 44.81% above today’s ($507.08) stock price. Amazon.com was the topic of 64 analyst reports since July 21, 2015 according to the firm StockzIntelligence Inc. Susquehanna initiated shares on January 15 with a “Positive” rating. M Partners initiated shares with a”Buy” rating and a $800.0 target share price in their report from a December 15. Monness Crespi & Hardt downgraded AMZN stock in a recent report from January 4 to a “Neutral” rating. Barclays Capital maintained the rating on December 1. Barclays Capital has a “Overweight” rating and a $850 price target on shares. Finally, Macquarie Research maintained the stock with a “Outperform” rating in a report they issued on a December 22.
The institutional sentiment increased to 1.49 in Q2 2015. It’s up 0.37, from 1.12 in 2015Q2. The ratio is positive, as 67 funds sold all their Amazon.com, Inc. shares they owned while 376 reduced their positions. 166 funds bought stakes while 493 increased their total positions. Institutions now own 325.29 million shares which is 4.94% more than the previous share count of 309.99 million in 2015Q2.
Huntington Steele Llc holds 23.61% of its total portfolio in Amazon.com, Inc., equating to 103,872 shares. Tiger Global Management Llc owns 3.19 million shares representing 20.13% of their total US portfolio. Moreover, Tybourne Capital Management Hk Ltd has 18.16% of their total portfolio invested in the company, equating to 504,001 shares. The Washington-based Brighton Jones Llc has a total of 17.93% of their portfolio invested in the stock. Telemark Asset Management Llc, a Massachusetts-based fund reported 100,000 shares owned.
Since May 4, 2015, the stock had 0 buys, and 1 insider sale for a total of $3.16 million in net activity. Stonesifer Patricia Q sold 6,250 shares worth $3.16M. Wilke Jeffrey A sold 5,908 shares worth $3.16M. Reynolds Shelley sold 720 shares worth $381,752. Olsavsky Brian T sold 2,098 shares worth $1.11 million. The insider Zapolsky David sold 2,322 shares worth $1.23M.
Amazon.com, Inc. is an e-commerce company. The company has a market cap of $240.30 billion. The Firm sells a range of services and products through its Websites. It has 408.89 P/E ratio. The Company’s products are offered through consumer-facing Websites, which include merchandise and content that it purchases for resale from vendors and those offered by third-party sellers.
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