Who currently owns Amazon?

Amazon is a publicly traded company, which means it's owned by shareholders. Its largest individual shareholder is founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos, followed by institutional investors Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street.

Who is Amazon's largest shareholder?

Founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos is the largest Amazon shareholder, with more than 880 million shares, which represent a stake of nearly 9% in the company. Bezos' shares are worth an estimated $187 billion.

What businesses does Amazon own?

Amazon owns more than 100 businesses, including Whole Foods Market, MGM Holdings, Zappos, Zoox, Twitch Interactive, Ring, Kiva Systems, and PillPack.

Has Jeff Bezos sold Amazon?

Bezos took Amazon public in 1997 and served as its CEO until 2021, but continues to serve as its chair. He still owns a stake of about $187 billion, or nearly 9% of the company's value.

Who Owns Amazon? List of Major Shareholders

Who Owns Amazon? Largest Shareholders

By Robin Hartill, CFP – Updated Sep 23, 2026 at 3:19 PM EST | Fact-checked by Parker Hicks

Key Points

Amazon's largest shareholder is founder Jeff Bezos with over 879 million shares.
Institutional investors hold 65% of Amazon shares; top ones include BlackRock and Vanguard.
Amazon's e-commerce spans diverse sectors including AI, healthcare, and cloud services.

If you're considering an investment in Amazon (AMZN -1.29%) stock, an important question to ask as a part of due diligence is who owns the company? Founder Jeff Bezos launched Amazon from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, in 1994, when the World Wide Web was in its infancy. In 1995, the company officially launched as an online bookseller.

Since then, Amazon has grown into an e-commerce behemoth that's been referred to as "the everything store." In Q1 2026, it boasted net sales of $181.5 billion. Its market cap as of this writing is around $2.68 trillion.

But Amazon is no longer just an e-commerce company. It's become a disruptor in cloud computing services, with Amazon Web Services, as well as entertainment, with Amazon Prime Video. It's produced an array of hardware devices ranging from the Kindle e-reader, which revolutionized the way people read books, to Echo, the smart speaker service, along with personal speaker Alexa. It's made forays into groceries through Amazon Fresh and its purchase of Whole Foods, as well as healthcare, with Amazon Pharmacy. Now Amazon is also on the cutting edge of various technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Who is the owner of Amazon?

As a publicly traded company, Amazon is owned by its shareholders. Anyone with a brokerage account can invest in Amazon stock.

The e-commerce giant's largest shareholder is its founder, Jeff Bezos, who resigned as the company's CEO in 2021 and now serves as its executive chairman. According to Forbes, Bezos is currently the second-richest person in the world. As of August 2026, Bezos owned roughly 879 million shares of Amazon stock, which amounts to a stake of more than 8%.

A graduate of Princeton University, Bezos founded Amazon after quitting his job as an executive at D.E. Shaw. He founded Amazon after creating a list of 20 products he believed could achieve strong sales online and landing on books, with the goal of eventually creating a broader e-commerce retailer.

Bezos took Amazon public in 1997, but the company didn't turn an annual profit until 2003. Bezos also founded Blue Origin, a private spaceflight company, in 2000. In 2013, he became the owner of The Washington Post as well.

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NASDAQ: AMZN

Amazon

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Current Price

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Key Data Points

Market Cap

$2.7T

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$245.60 - $247.52

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$196.00 - $287.20

Volume

10.3M

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45.4M

Gross Margin

50.77%

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Who are the largest shareholders?

Bezos is Amazon's largest shareholder, but institutional investors own over 65% of Amazon's shares. Here's a look at the institutions and individuals that are currently Amazon's largest shareholders.

Individual investors

Jeff Bezos: Founder, executive chairman, and former CEO; owns 879.0 million Amazon shares, or 8.2% of shares outstanding.
Andrew Jassy: CEO; owns 2.3 million Amazon shares.
Douglas Herrington: CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores; owns 482,290 Amazon shares.
Adam Selipsky: Former CEO of Amazon Web Services; owns 145,667 Amazon shares.
Shelley Reynolds: Vice president, worldwide controller, and principal accounting officer; owns 122,436 Amazon shares.

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Institutional investors

BlackRock (BLK -0.40%): Owns 748.4 million Amazon shares, or 6.94% of shares outstanding. New York City–based BlackRock is the largest institutional money manager on the globe.
Vanguard Group: Owns 635.8 million Amazon shares, or 5.89% of shares outstanding. Vanguard is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
State Street (STT -0.09%): Owns 397.19 million Amazon shares, or 3.68% of shares outstanding. State Street is a Boston-based financial services company and the world's largest custodial bank.
Fidelity Management & Research: Owns 365.66 million Amazon shares, or 3.39% of shares outstanding. Fidelity is a privately held financial services and custodian firm headquartered in Boston.
Geode Capital Management: Owns 233.21 million Amazon shares, or 2.16% of shares outstanding. Geode Capital Management is an investment manager based in Boston.

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E-commerce

E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods online and the related businesses that facilitate it

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Who serves on Amazon's board of directors?

Amazon's board of directors consists of the following 12 members:

Amazon's board of directors
Name	Title	Board inception
Jeff Bezos	Former CEO of Amazon	1994
Andrew Jassy	Current CEO of Amazon	2021
Edith W. Cooper	Co-founder of Medley	2021
Jamie Gorelick	Senior Counsel for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP	2012
Daniel Huttenlocher	Dean of MIT Schwarzman College	2016
Kevin Mandia	CEO of Armadin, Inc.	2026
Andrew Ng	Managing General Partner of AI Fund	2024
Indra Nooyi	Former CEO of PepsiCo	2019
Jonathan Rubinstein	Former Co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates, LP,	2010
Brad Smith	President of Marshall University	2023
Patricia Stonesifer	Former President and CEO of Martha’s Table	1997
Wendell Weeks	CEO of Corning	2016

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About the Author

Robin Hartill, CFP, is a contributing writer at The Motley Fool. Robin’s work has also been published by Yahoo Finance, USA Today, and Penny Hoarder. She is a graduate of the University of Florida.

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Robin Hartill, CFP has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon and BlackRock. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Who Owns Amazon? Largest Shareholders

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Who is the owner of Amazon?