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Just read "Working Backwards", and you will understand why Amazon is where is it.
I guess this was mostly priced in already, because they smashed the street estimates but still only gained 3% after hours.
it could also be that relative to alphabet, apple and shopify they had jsut a good quarter. MS beat estimates and saw daily losses yesterday, likely attributed to rebalancing market-based portfolios.
3% for a trillion dollar company is a lot...
In one sense, I suppose so. But usually stocks are evaluated on a percent basis and not a dollar basis.
There has been a rumor of a stock split late this week that may have been leading to a speculative rise but for whatever reason the stock was already up 3% this week (and 13% this month).
Q1 revenue

2021: $108.5 billion

2020: $75.5 billion

2019: $59.7 billion

2018: $51.0 billion

2017: $35.7 billion

2016: $29.1 billion

2015: $22.7 billion

2014: $19.7 billion

2013: $16.1 billion

2012: $13.2 billion

2011: $9.9 billion

2010: $7.1 billion

2009: $4.9 billion

2008: $4.1 billion

2007: $3.0 billion

2006: $2.3 billion

2005: $1.9 billion

2004: $1.5 billion

2003: $1.1 billion

2002: $847 million

2001: $700 million

2000: $574 million

1999: $294 million

1998: $87 million

1997: $16 million

I'm actually kind of surprised at how "low" the growth was from 2020 to 2021 considering overnight entire countries became dependent on Amazon for purchasing in some cases.

I'm in Canada, with the locks downs, curfews, etc my entire shopping experience since 2020 March has been:

- Amazon

- Costco

- GoodFood (Had before covid)

- UberEats (Twice because of work vouchers)

- Home Depot (soil & lumber to build a raised garden bed)

Nothing else.

Edit: Formatting & added home depot

I think the number of people that changed their shopping habits is probably pretty small compared to those that continued to do what they used to. For one, things sold via Amazon are very expensive (especially liquids) compared to in store options and most people were and are stretched so they can’t just up and spend an extra 20%+ or whatever to get delivery.
yep... true for my family as well. While we bought some things from amazon fresh, 98% of grocery items were still purchased through local stores. Many adopted delivery model pretty early on.

as for non grocery items, there were pandemic related purchases for sure, but for my family, it was at Home Depot.

With that said though, I think the Q1 YoY revenue jump is still huge.

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It's their highest y/y growth in a decade, second highest since 2000, and fifth highest overall.

Top y/y Q1 growth (according to numbers from op):

   1998: 443.8%
   1999: 237.9%
   2000: 95.2%
   2010: 44.9%
   2021: 43.7%
   2018: 42.9%
   2011: 39.4%
Median overall is %29

That's a pretty good year, especially considering growth usually gets harder as you grow.

While a lot of purchases were made through Amazon, lockdowns make people limit their purchases to the absolute essentials.

So volume moght have increased but avg revenue per user would still grow less.

AWS Q1: 4.1 billion net revenue.

Rest of Amazon Q1: 4.7 billion net revenue.

And that's why the CEO of AWS is now the CEO of Amazon. :)
These should be separate companies.
Why? Amazon relies on AWS and Amazon's in-the-trenches experience no doubt helps shape AWS.

Ebay and Paypal split, but Paypal was worth a lot more than Ebay at the time and now it is worth ~10x as much.

The sheer scale seems really similar to the vertical integration of companies like Standard Oil. That alone doesn't necessarily mean that they're problematic, but it sure does suggest that we give them a closer look. If their scale allows them to be anti-consumer/anti-trade then that's bad.
Are they being anti-consumer/anti-trade tho?

If their scale allows it then you may wish to look closer, but their scale also allows them to offer unprecedented value to customers, which is generally the highest value for commerce in the first place.

Let's not destroy a good thing just because we can imagine it having some consequences.

Neither part has anywhere near monopoly power in respective markets: AWS ~32% of cloud, Amazon has ~37% of ecommerce. There's an incredible amount of other options for everything Amazon does.
Vertical integration is not a matter of market share -- that's horizontal integration.
Your numbers are too low. The actual revenue for Amazon is $100B+. How come you are reporting net revenue so low?
i should have used "net income" rather than "net revenue".
That is net income (or profit) not revenue.
Net Income Comparison:

2020 Q1: $2.5 billion

2021 Q1: $8.1 billion

The pandemic has been good to amazon.

> The pandemic has been good to amazon.

And to most other tech companies.

The government has, not pandemic.

The pandemic wouldn't have made a lot of difference. Especially as people would have much less money to spend on junk, were it not for socialist handouts.

Amazon has been a treasure to people enduring the pandemic, you mean.

Had they not been thoroughly competent, the pandemic would've destroyed them.

Many large companies emerged worse for the pandemic.

Sure, but almost all ecommerce companies saw huge growth due to the pandemic. Even for absolutely optional goods.
You mean e-commerce, because most stores experienced devastating losses. The whole market accelerated it's transition to online experiences.
A more accurate report on "value."
No mention of Twitch. Curious how much money they make now that it's slowly turning into a softcore camgirl site
It already is 'that' kind of website(frankly it has been since ~2017).

If i had to guess they probably make some decent amount, but only because in the last couple of years they refined and made very popular the subscription & gifting system(along with bits and everything else).Now i'm not sure if they have lost actual money from the DMCA and copyright issues.I'm thinking they did not(or not so much anyways), and that's why they've made those purges and scared everyone.

They definitely prep it up to be a big advertising platform(if it wasn't already).Their anti-adblock system isn't perfect, that's why they're looking at some new technologies that make it very hard to circumvent ads.At that point they will definitely make some big bucks out of it.(Assuming it doesn't 'die')

Earnings per share: $15.79 vs. $9.69 expected. Wtf? It's a blow out.
Margin is up too, not just revenue:

Operating margin Q1 2020: 5.3%, Q1 2021: 8.2%

Which is somewhat interesting. I wonder if there was a set of deliberate prices raise while they have this upper hand, or just economy of scale.

I assumed internalizing logistics helped reduce costs associated with per package delivery compared to the 3p shippers (UPS, USPS, Fedex, DHL).
Increasing uptake of their higher margin products, mostly.

What products of theirs have seen prices rise? I can't think of any, except some AWS services where the price rise accompanies a serious rise in utilisation (ie the user is getting more per dollar, so the dollar price is rising commensurate)

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Any reason why Amazon is now making so much profits? Have they ran out of things to invest on?