Ownership profile
Who owns Amazon?
Amazon is a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker AMZN; its shares are widely distributed across institutional investors, index funds, and individual shareholders, with no private equity firm holding a controlling or influential stake.
Ownership profile
Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc.
Evidence (7)
Amazon.com, Inc. is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol AMZN, actively trading with a market cap of approximately $2.61 trillion.
https://stocktwits.com/symbol/AMZNAmazon is a widely held public company; no single entity — individual or institutional — controls a majority of shares. Ownership is distributed across thousands of institutional investors, mutual funds, index funds, and individual shareholders.
https://www.revenuememo.com/p/who-owns-amazonFounder Jeff Bezos remains the largest individual shareholder at approximately 8.8% of outstanding shares; top institutional investors are Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street, collectively controlling around 18–20% of the company.
https://www.revenuememo.com/p/who-owns-amazonSEC Form 10-K filings confirm Amazon.com, Inc. as the top-level parent entity, with all significant subsidiaries (e.g., Amazon Services LLC, Amazon Web Services, Inc., Amazon Corporate LLC) wholly owned at 100%.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001018724/000101872415000006/amzn-20141231xex211.htmAmazon.com, Inc. is the global legal entity and headquarters, overseeing all other entities in the group.
https://companydata.com/company-profile/amazon/Amazon was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
https://www.investing.com/equities/amazon-com-incAmazon.com, Inc. has 100% ownership of all its significant subsidiaries, with no external holding company or PE fund above it in the corporate structure.
https://lexchart.com/org-charts/amazon-nasdaq-amzn-corporate-structure/What's uncertain
- The SEC 10-K subsidiary list cited is from FY2014; the most current 10-K (FY2024/2025) was not directly retrieved, though the corporate structure is well established from multiple corroborating public sources.
- No PE firm was identified in any source as holding a stake in Amazon.com, Inc. The 'none' rating reflects positive evidence of a fully public, diffuse shareholding structure — not merely an absence of PE search results.
- Institutional investors such as Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street are asset managers, not private equity firms, and their stakes represent passive index ownership.