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Price Check: Are Amazon's Prime Day Deals Better Than Walmart.com Prices?
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - 12:42pm | 335Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is grabbing a lot of headlines for its second annual Prime Day, but competitor Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is fighting back by offering free shipping with no minimum purchase requirement. Walmart has also been offering a number of “Rollbacks”...
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Amazon Prime Day Could Touch $1 Billion In Daily Sales
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - 9:13am | 330On Tuesday, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will hold its second annual Prime Day, representing a global shopping event that is exclusively for its Prime members. Citi’s Mark May commented that Prime Day could touch $1 billion in daily sales this year. He maintained a Buy rating on the...
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Black Friday In July: Retailers Such As Target, Gap Hoping To Piggyback Amazon's Prime Day
Monday, July 11, 2016 - 9:32am | 462Black Friday is coming five months early for some retailers, according to a report on USA Today. Stores, including Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT), Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: SHLD) and Banana Republic, a unit of Gap Inc (NYSE: GPS), are offering deals around the same time as Amazon.com, Inc. (...
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MKM Thinks Amazon's Prime Day Could Double Last Year's Sales
Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 9:34am | 273Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been promoting its second annual Prime Day shopping event, scheduled for July 12. MKM Partners’ Rob Sanderson reiterated a Buy rating on the company, with a price target of $850. The Second Prime Day Sanderson mentioned the first Prime Day, held in 2015,...
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Wal-Mart Tries To Steal Amazon Prime Day's Thunder
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 11:57am | 310Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s second annual Prime Day sales event is widely expected to occur in mid-July. This time, however, a major foe won't be sitting by idly. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) announced on Wednesday it plans to offer new members a free 30-day trial for its equivalent to...
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Stifel Upgrades Amazon, Slaps $700 Price Target On 'Bigger, Stronger, Faster' Operations
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 9:32am | 391In a report published Wednesday, Stifel analyst Scott Devitt upgraded shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to Buy from Hold with a newly introduced $700 price target as the company successfully emerged from its "extensive and extended" investment cycle which yielded a "bigger...
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Investors May Not Care If Amazon Turns A Profit This Quarter
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 4:56pm | 411Analysts have mixed expectations for Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) this quarter. "AWS will be very strong," Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry told Benzinga. "We're very optimistic on AWS business." Not all analysts have the same level of optimism. "Investors appear to not care,...
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How Prime Day Is Turning Out To Be Both 'Good And Bad For Amazon'
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 - 3:08pm | 338While Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s Prime Day is under way right now, Social Radar V.P. of Social Marketing, Shana Glenze, was on Fox Business News to provide early insights into how the day is turning out to be for Amazon. Freebies And Sweepstakes Glenze highlighted how Amazon...
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BTIG: Amazon, Wal-Mart Competing Against Each Other To Lower Prices 'Helps Everybody'
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 9:29am | 340Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) announced on Monday that it will be launching a rival sale on Wednesday against Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s Prime Day. Whereas Amazon's Prime Day will cater only to customers who have subscribed to Amazon Prime membership, Wal-Mart's sale will...
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Amazon, Wal-Mart Throw Down On Who's Offering Better Deals
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 8:02am | 303On Wednesday, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that its Prime members would be treated to a Black Friday-Style sale that the retailer promised would provide deep discounts on many of their favorite products. The sale has received a lot of attention, and given Amazon's Prime service some...