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Amazon (AMZN) closed at $260.21 on November 5, 2026, down 2.19%, on volume of 85.8 million shares.
Motley Fool tied the drop to a broad technology selloff that wiped out early gains from Amazon's new Uber Eats deal for Prime members.
The stock fell less than the Nasdaq Composite, which lost 5.52%, and now sits 9.40% below its 52-week high.
Gotrade News - In the latest Amazon stock news, shares of Amazon (AMZN) closed at $260.21 on Thursday, November 5, 2026, down 2.19%, or $5.82. Amazon stock gave back early gains from a new Uber Eats deal for Prime members as a broad technology selloff took hold, according to Motley Fool.
AMZN Trading Data
Data
Value
Closing price
$260.21
Change
-$5.82 (-2.19%)
Previous close
$266.03
Open
$271.43
Day range
$252.27 to $273.23
Volume
85.8 million shares
30-day average volume
42.2 million shares
52-week range
$196.00 to $287.20
Market cap
$2.81 trillion
Regular-session close on Thursday, November 5, 2026, 4:00 p.m. New York time. Stock prices: Yahoo Finance, cross-checked against the closing price on Nasdaq.com. Volume and 30-day average volume: Nasdaq.com. 52-week range: Yahoo Finance daily highs and lows since November 6, 2025. Indices and the 10-year Treasury yield: Yahoo Finance daily closes for the same date.
Amazon opened at $271.43, above the previous close of $266.03, and reached a session high of $273.23 before selling pulled it down to a low of $252.27. The stock finished $7.94 above that low. Trading was heavy, with 85.8 million shares changing hands, 103.43% above the average of 42.2 million shares.
The Nasdaq Composite fell 5.52% to 24,315.00, the S&P 500 lost 4.36% to 7,353.73 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 3.44% to 51,523.06, so Amazon held up 3.33 percentage points better than the Nasdaq. Among large technology names, Nvidia (NVDA) fell 9.26%, Microsoft (MSFT) lost 3.58% and Alphabet (GOOGL) slipped 2.20%. The US 10-year Treasury yield closed at 4.84%, down 5.7 basis points.
After the session, Amazon stock sits 9.40% below its 52-week high of $287.20 and 32.76% above its 52-week low of $196.00.
Financial media tied the drop to the market-wide technology selloff rather than to bad news from Amazon itself. According to Motley Fool, Amazon shares gained in early trading after the company announced its Uber Eats partnership, but those gains faded as technology selling took over. The outlet linked the wider selloff to US midterm election results in which the Democratic Party gained control of Congress, suggesting this could bring tighter AI regulation and a hold on data center construction that could weigh on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The early lift came from a November 5 announcement. According to Amazon's official release, US Prime members now pay a $0 delivery fee on restaurant orders of $25 or more placed through Amazon.com or the Amazon Shopping app, powered by Uber Eats, plus $20 off their first two qualifying orders.
On the same day, the Federal Trade Commission and 22 states filed an updated, unredacted version of their August lawsuit. The complaint alleges Amazon secretly raised search ad prices by up to 50% above auction results on ordinary days and up to 250% on major shopping days such as Prime Day and Black Friday. None of the coverage reviewed tied the filing to the session's move, and Amazon has denied deceiving or harming advertisers since the original suit, as reported by Search Engine Journal.
AMZN Stock Analysis: Supporting Factors and Risks
Supporting Factors
Cloud growth: per Amazon's third-quarter 2026 earnings report, AWS net sales rose 39% to $46.0 billion, and AWS operating income reached $17.8 billion, up from $11.4 billion a year earlier.
Retail search: after the close, MediaPost reported that Amazon launched Shop Direct Merchant Workspace, a free self-service portal that lets third-party retailers sync their product feeds with Amazon's search engine and Alexa for Shopping.
Risks
Cash flow: Amazon reported trailing twelve-month free cash flow as an outflow of $42.4 billion, against a $14.8 billion inflow a year earlier, mainly due to a $94.8 billion increase in property and equipment purchases that it said primarily reflects investments in artificial intelligence.
Legal: the ad-pricing case brought by the FTC and 22 states in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington is still being litigated, per Search Engine Journal.
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