Friday, April 9, 2010
Amazon.com Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a online retailer in North America and internationally. The company has multiple retail web sites, including amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.co.jp, amazon.ca, and amazon.cn. Its major categories include books; movies, music, and games; digital downloads; electronics and computers; home and garden; toys, kids, and baby; grocery; apparel, shoes, and jewelry; health and beauty; sports and outdoors; and tools, auto, and industrial. The company serves its consumer customers through its retail Websites and focuses on selection, price, and convenience. It also offers programs that enable seller customers to sell their products on its Websites and their own branded Websites. In addition, the company serves developer customers through Amazon Web Services, which provides access to technology infrastructure that developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Amazon also manufactures and sells the kindle e-reader. Additionally, the company offers co-branded credit card programs, fulfillment, and other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising. Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Key Statistics
| Revenues | $ 24.51 Billion |
| EBITDA | $ 1.39 Billion |
| Net Income | $ 902 Million |
| Operating Margin | 4.81 % |
| Revenue Growth (Quarterly/yoy) | 42.00 % |
Reasons to buy
- The Amazon web services business, especially the cloud computing space, has been growing rapidly and appears to have a strong future
- Amazon.com has shown strong revenue growth with growth of 42% year over year this past quarter
Reasons to Sell
- The new iPad could take market share from the Kindle e-reader
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