Amazon’s shares are traded under the ticker symbol AMZN.
AMZN is the Nasdaq ticker symbol for Amazon.com, Inc., the global company founded by Jeff Bezos. Ticker symbols provide short identifiers for publicly traded shares and are widely used in financial reporting, trading platforms and market-capitalization tables.
Amazon began as an online bookstore in 1994 and expanded into a broad technology and retail business. Its major activities now include e-commerce, cloud computing through Amazon Web Services, digital advertising, streaming media and logistics.
Ticker symbols are not the same as company names, and different exchanges can use different symbols or formats. Amazon’s market capitalization is obtained by multiplying the market price of its shares by the number of outstanding shares. Because the share price moves continuously during trading, Amazon’s position among the world’s richest companies can change from day to day.