Why Amazon stock could have nearly 50% upside in 2026

Amazon's (AMZN) stock has hardly had a prime performance in 2025. Shares of the e-commerce and cloud giant are only up 6% year to date, badly lagging the 18% advance for the S&P 500 (^GSPC). Experts cite slowing sales growth in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) business and mixed sentiment on the company's ability to monetize artificial intelligence as the drivers of the "mixed" sentiment. Amazon didn't do much to bolster sentiment in October when it announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in its history ...