Is Amazon Stock a Buy Right Now? | The Motley Fool

Is Amazon Stock a Buy Right Now? | The Motley Fool

Does Amazon have what it takes to be one of the Magnificent Seven’s biggest winners over the next five years?

Despite its leading position in cloud-infrastructure services, Amazon (AMZN 1.03%) stock has been a relative underperformer in the age of high-flying artificial intelligence (AI) stocks. While the company’s share price is up roughly 43% over the last five years, this performance comes in far below the 86% total return delivered by the Nasdaq Composite index.

Even with strong financial results recently, Amazon has failed to make much ground from a valuation perspective. The company’s share price is up just 3% year to date despite a gain of 16% for the S&P 500 and a gain of 20% for the Nasdaq. Is Amazon still a top long-term buy or is the stock dead money?

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Can Amazon still be a big long-term winner?

The substantial underperformance for Amazon stock compared to other “Magnificent Seven” tech giants is an interesting scenario. Compared to other…

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