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Amazon
Revenue increased just 9% last year to $514 billion.
The company posted an adjusted loss of $0.27 per share as compared to a profit of $3.24 per share in the prior year. However, 2023 is expected to be a turnaround year for Amazon as far as its bottom line is concerned.
The company’s top-line growth is also expected to gather momentum, growing in the high single digits in 2023 and then in the double-digits from next year.
A slight improvement in the e-commerce market’s prospects, robust growth in cloud spending, and Amazon’s growing influence in the advertising business, are some of the reasons the company’s fortunes should start picking up.
For instance, Amazon should benefit from easier comps in the e-commerce business in 2023. The global e-commerce market grew by just 7.1% in 2022 following a 16.8% increase in 2021. The market is expected to grow at a slightly better pace of 8.9% in 2023.
Meanwhile, global cloud infrastructure spending is anticipated to jump an impressive 23% this year, according to Canalys. Amazon’s 32% share of this market makes it the leader in the cloud infrastructure services space and puts the company on track to make the most of the solid growth opportunity available there.
Investors, however, should note that emerging tech trends such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) could help Amazon record faster growth in 2023 and beyond. Generative AI company Stability AI, which is known for its popular text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has made Amazon Web Services (AWS) its preferred provider of cloud services. Stability AI will use AWS to scale and build its generative AI model.
Given that the generative AI market is expected to clock rapid annual growth of 34% through the end of the decade, demand for cloud-enabled AI services should increase at a nice pace. Mordor Intelligence estimates that the cloud AI market could grow at 22% a year through 2027, and Amazon’s share of this market means that it could become a big beneficiary of this terrific growth.
The stock is trading at just 2 times sales, a discount to the S&P 500’s price-to-sales ratio of 2.4.
Source: Trade Of The Day