In a Jan. 26 word, Roth Capital Markets analyst Rohit Kulkarni reiterated a “Purchase” score on Amazon (Amazon Inventory Quote, Chart, Information, Analysts, Financials NASDAQ:AMZN) and raised his 12-month value goal to US$295 from US$270, reflecting greater ahead assumptions and the introduction of 2027 estimates forward of the corporate’s fourth-quarter earnings report scheduled for Feb. 5 after market shut.
Kulkarni mentioned the upper goal is predicated on a sum-of-parts valuation and implies roughly 30 instances his 2027 earnings estimate. He mentioned Roth is modestly rising its 2026 assumptions and believes the market is underestimating margin upside tied to workforce reductions late in 2025 and the potential for extra layoffs in early 2026.
“We imagine the Avenue is underestimating margin aid from 4Q ’25 layoffs and certain further layoffs in 1Q ’26,” Kulkarni mentioned, including that near-term developments across the Trainium 3 launch, early impacts from Rufus on commerce conversions, and higher readability across the AWS–OpenAI relationship might assist reframe the AI narrative across the inventory.
He known as Amazon his high mega-cap decide for the primary half of 2026.
Seeking to the upcoming earnings launch, Kulkarni mentioned Roth expects a modest fourth-quarter beat versus consensus and believes the shares would react positively if income and working revenue exceed roughly US$211-billion and US$25-billion, respectively. For the primary quarter of 2026, he mentioned steering implying income close to US$176-billion and working revenue round US$22-billion would even be considered favourably.
AWS stays a central focus, with Kulkarni forecasting accelerating year-over-year progress by way of the primary half of 2026, reaching about 23% in each the primary and second quarters. He mentioned fourth-quarter AWS progress above 22% could be a transparent constructive, whereas noting that latest capital spending ought to proceed to help cloud acceleration with a typical six-to-nine-month lag. He estimates Amazon spent about US$34.5-billion in capital expenditures within the fourth quarter and expects the corporate to information to greater absolute CapEx in 2026.
On the retail facet, Kulkarni mentioned the Avenue continues to underestimate margin enlargement potential, pushed by promoting progress, logistics efficiencies, decrease year-over-year value comparisons and workforce actions. He estimates North America and Worldwide retail margins might increase by roughly 130 foundation factors and 120 foundation factors, respectively, in 2026.
Kulkarni additionally pushed again on investor skepticism round Amazon’s in-house AI chips, saying Trainium is geared toward a big and underappreciated phase of the compute market. He famous that Amazon has disclosed a multibillion-dollar income run price for Trainium, with multiple million chips in manufacturing and over 100,000 clients, whereas Anthropic is already utilizing Trainium2 for coaching workloads.
Roth forecasts that Amazon will generate about US$165.8-million in Adjusted EBITDA on income of roughly US$715.0-billion in fiscal 2025, bettering to roughly US$209.7-million in Adjusted EBITDA on income of about US$797.6-billion in fiscal 2026.
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