Amazon (AMZN) / Jeff Bezos

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Online retailer Amazon surges to an all-time high… up nearly 50% in three months.

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Amazon.com, Inc.: AMZN Stock Packs on Even MORE Muscle With New Streaming Service

Just-announced Amazon Video Direct could rival YouTube

By Hilary Kramer

Source: Game Changers

http://investorplace.com/2016/05/amazon ... zmTt5F96M8

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Online retailer Amazon surges to an all-time high... up about 50% since mid-February.

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Amazon.com, Inc.: Buy AMZN Stock and Don’t Look Back

Amazon Prime and other growth engines will continue to deliver outsized gains for AMZN stock

By Dan Burrows

Between Amazon Prime and AWS, Amazon stock will continue to benefit from the company’s enormous presence in online retailing and cloud-based services. This is why shares trade at 73 times forward earnings and investors tolerate the occasional unprofitable quarter.

AMZN stock might just represent the best mega-cap growth story of all time.

This is not to say that Amazon stock won’t stumble from time to time. All equities do. But if you can just stick it out through the downturns — dollar-cost averaging all the way — there will be many more record highs to come.

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2016/06/amzn-s ... 1DSsJF96M8

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Stocks to Sell: Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)

Amazon.com (AMZN) has soared 30% in the last three months and 70% in the last year. However, much like Google, at some point the market has to value Amazon like the company it is.

In terms of size, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) has about four times more annual revenue than AMZN, as does Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) in gross merchandise volume. Yet, AMZN is 50% more valuable than either, and while premium multiples are rewarded for growth, it is still hard to imagine that Amazon can ever grow into the valuation that the market has given it.

If AMZN were to trade higher by just 20%, that’s another $70 billion in market capitalization on top of its current $345 billion market cap, and would take Amazon’s valuation from illogical to utterly insane. Hence, there just isn’t a lot of upside left.

So while Amazon is in fact a great company, it’s time to take profits.

Source: Investor Place

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Priced For Perfection

There’s no question AMZN is a great company. But the company’s staggering projected growth numbers are no secret, and the market has high expectations for AMZN.

AMZN is currently priced at nearly $720/share. AMZN, much like former tech growth stock eBay Inc (EBAY), will eventually settle into a much lower long-term growth rate. Here’s what the market is anticipating from AMZN once it reaches that point.

Using a modest P/E ratio of 14.5 as a guide, the market is anticipating that AMZN will eventually earn more than $50 per share.

With 471 million outstanding shares, that means the market is pricing in roughly $23 billion in annual income.

In the past four quarters, AMZN reported net income of $1.1 billion, meaning that some astronomical growth is already priced into the shares. Even if AMZN delivers on that growth in the next decade, it’s hard to see much upside to its current share price.

Source: Investor Place

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All-American Stocks to Buy #10: Amazon.com (AMZN)

Last but not least, Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) belongs on a list of the nation’s top local-hero stocks to buy.

Yes, Amazon.

Calling a spade a spade, more than any other organization, Amazon.com ushered in and largely defined e-commerce. It’s set the pace all other retailers must keep, and set the bar all other retailers must meet.

More than that though, Amazon is an all-American success story. CEO Jeff Bezos started out on 1994 with nothing more than a few boxes of books he was selling out of his garage, and he turned it into a business that over the past four quarters has generated $113 billion worth of revenue.

Say what you want about the company’s minimal, inconsistent profitability, but nobody can deny it’s an American capitalism dream-come-true — a sweat-equity rags-to-riches story.

Would-be entrepreneurs draw motivation from Bezos’ success.

Source: Investors Place

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Amazon.com, Inc.: AMZN Stock Is Just Taking a Breather Before the Holidays

Amazon stock still checks all the boxes for growth investors

By Hilary Kramer

Amazon operates 77 large-scale fulfillment centers here in the United States, and it has 17 more in progress.

The company just announced plans to raise its storage fees in November and December by 213% and 102%, respectively, year-over-year to accommodate increased holiday demand and “maximize inventory.”

Source: Game Changers

http://investorplace.com/2016/06/amzn-a ... 2VbI7h96M8

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Retirement Stocks to Sell: Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)

Amazon (AMZN) may be the single greatest growth story of our generation.

Founder Jeff Bezos essentially invented internet commerce as we know it today, and he’s disrupted the brick-and-mortar retail sector in a way that few could have imagined 20 years ago. And Amazon turned the world upside down a second time with its cloud service, Amazon Web Services.

But Amazon at current prices is a trade, it’s not a retirement stock. Amazon has been growing its sales at a 28% clip … but it’s also priced like a company that is growing at a 28% clip … and one that will continue doing so forever. At current prices, AMZN is trading for 300 times earnings and three times sales.

Again, I have the utmost respect for Amazon. But its cloud services will only face increased competition from Alphabet and Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), among others. And while Amazon might maintain its place as the leader here, its growth should slow in the years ahead.

So, while Amazon might be a great trade, I’d be very careful with it as a retirement stock. You’d be better off dumping it.

Source: Investor Place

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Amazon To March Into Indonesia With $600 Million: Winners And Losers

By Shuli Ren

Source: Barron's Asia

http://blogs.barrons.com/asiastocks/201 ... nd-losers/