Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

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Postby winston » Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:40 am

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Buy Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stock for its Web Services Diversification

Amazon is more about cloud computing than retail these days

By Aaron Levitt

Businesses can fire their entire IT staff and save bundles by switching to AMZN’s services.

Heck, Amazon will even drive over a 100-petabyte mobile hard drive to help corporate clients upload their data to AMZN’s cloud.

All of these efforts seem to be working to attract corporate clients.

Amazon’s case studies include Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) using AMZN’s data analytics to improve commodity trading, and drug maker Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) improving its R&D to more efficiently answer consumer questions.


AWS accounts for less than 10% of Amazon’s revenue. Shopping still rules the roost. But, margins at AWS are crazily high as, once it’s in place, Amazon doesn’t have to do much.

As a result, last quarter, the company’s cloud services division contributed roughly 75% of overall profit.


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Re: Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

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Listen Up: Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stock Is Going Down!

AMZN stock has potential bearish drags on and off the price chart

By Chris Tyler

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Re: Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

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3 Reasons the Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stock Rally Will Continue

AMZN stock is set for another year of hefty gains

By Laura Hoy

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Re: Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

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Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stock’s Booming Cloud Biz Gets More Secure

Alleged acquisition of harvest.ai can only boost AMZN stock

By Hilary Kramer

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Re: Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

Postby winston » Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:58 pm

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Tech Stocks To Sell: Amazon (AMZN)

Trailing 12-Month P/E: 188
Forward P/E: 93
Next Earnings Report: Jan. 26

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been a Wall Street darling for many years, with very few interruptions. And for years, the company has defied conventional valuations, sporting a triple-digit P/E for much of its publicly traded life.

Amazon bulls have long argued that the high valuation is worth it because of the extremely long game (that Amazon will take over everything), but they have newer ammunition — actual profits, thanks in large part to the success of its high-margin Amazon Web Services cloud service.

Companies with strong earnings growth projections do deserve to trade at a premium to stocks with stagnant growth. But let’s dig a little deeper.

Amazon is projected to grow earnings at an impressive 36% annual clip over the next five years. But even if AMZN stock doesn’t move for five years and it hits its growth projections, the stock still would be trading at nearly 40 times earnings by 2022.

Unless the broader market changed drastically from a P/E that typically resides between the high teens and mid-20s, that still would be considered overpriced.

And again, that’s assuming a bad-case scenario of zero overall return on AMZN stock amid a great-case scenario of matching that 36% annual earnings growth.

Amazon is a great company. But it’s a stretch to think Amazon can continue trading at these kinds of valuations forever. That makes AMZN a potential earnings calamity every three months.

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Re: Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

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Tech Stocks To Sell: Amazon (AMZN)

Trailing 12-Month P/E: 188
Forward P/E: 93
Next Earnings Report: Jan. 26

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been a Wall Street darling for many years, with very few interruptions. And for years, the company has defied conventional valuations, sporting a triple-digit P/E for much of its publicly traded life.

Amazon bulls have long argued that the high valuation is worth it because of the extremely long game (that Amazon will take over everything), but they have newer ammunition — actual profits, thanks in large part to the success of its high-margin Amazon Web Services cloud service.

Companies with strong earnings growth projections do deserve to trade at a premium to stocks with stagnant growth. But let’s dig a little deeper.

Amazon is projected to grow earnings at an impressive 36% annual clip over the next five years. But even if AMZN stock doesn’t move for five years and it hits its growth projections, the stock still would be trading at nearly 40 times earnings by 2022.

Unless the broader market changed drastically from a P/E that typically resides between the high teens and mid-20s, that still would be considered overpriced.

And again, that’s assuming a bad-case scenario of zero overall return on AMZN stock amid a great-case scenario of matching that 36% annual earnings growth.

Amazon is a great company. But it’s a stretch to think Amazon can continue trading at these kinds of valuations forever. That makes AMZN a potential earnings calamity every three months.

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Re: Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

Postby winston » Thu Jan 19, 2017 1:52 pm

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Why Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stock Will Finally Hit $1,000

AMZN stock, which is now hovering near all-time highs, won't just crack the ceiling -- it will plow right through it

By Richard Saintvilus

If you factor in initiatives such as drone deliveries, long-haul freight deliveries, its fleet of airplanes and a host of other endeavors, Amazon stock has oodles of tailwinds.

For fiscal 2017, Amazon is expected to earn $8.84 per share on revenue of $167.84 billion, marking year-over-year increases of 85% and 22.5%, respectively.

I expect both figures to beat consensus and for Amazon, which reports Q4 results later this month, to raise full-year 2017 guidance.

Accordingly, AMZN stock should deliver roughly 25% gains … which would put it over $1,000 in 2017.


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Re: Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

Postby winston » Sat Jan 28, 2017 11:35 am

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Stocks to Buy: Amazon.com (AMZN)

Online seller of everything Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been making America great for nearly 23 years.

The brainchild of CEO Jeff Bezos began life as a hub where avid readers could get the latest novels, and discover both new and old works that would appeal to their tastes.

That formula worked not only for literature, but for everything from music, film, video games, electronics, clothing, toys, toothpaste … and just about anything else one can require or desire.

Amazon.com’s relatively recent foray into the cloud computing business has been an unequivocal success, with the company raking in some $3.2 billion in cloud computing revenue in the third quarter of 2016.

That figure was up 55% from the same quarter the year prior. Amazon’s web services business proves that not only does the company make America great by delivering the products we want right to our door, it also makes possible many of the e-commerce sites the American — and global — economy relies on to function smoothly.

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Re: Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

Postby winston » Tue Feb 28, 2017 1:44 pm

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The Most Overrated Stocks: Amazon (AMZN)

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is a perennial favorite, and downright dangerous to speak against.

Its fans are also quick to point out that its shares have gained a whopping 2,215% over the course of the past 10 years.

One of the key reasons Amazon stock was able to make such a gain, however, started to show signs of trouble last quarter.

Giving credit where it’s due, Amazon Web Services (or AWS) has been a workhorse for the e-commerce giant. The cloud-computing arm of the company generated $3.5 billion worth of revenue last quarter alone, growing 47% on a year-over-year basis. In fact, a double-digit growth pace has been the norm.

Better still, AWS has become a major profit center, generating $926 million worth of operating income last quarter, or roughly three-fourths of the company’s $1.25 billion in operational income.

That 47% growth pace for AWS in the fourth quarter, however, is the slowest-ever growth the division has ever seen since Amazon reported it.

Granted, that slowdown is largely a function of size — the bigger it gets, the more difficult it is to add meaningfully more revenue. But investors have largely priced AMZN shares as if the previously red-hot growth rate would never end.

And being priced for unachievable targets is a setup for disappointment.

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