The company reported net revenue of $25.4 billion and net income of $79 million, or $0.17 a share. That means revenue grew 24 percent compared with the same period last year, while income swung positive from a net loss of $437 million, or $0.95 a share, in the year-ago quarter. AWS reported $2.1 billion in revenue and $521 million in profit. That's a 78 percent rise in revenue and 432 percent rise in profit over last year. Overall, AWS now accounts for around 8 percent of Amazon's total revenue, but nearly half of its total profits, which puts it close to matching the performance of its entire North American e-commerce division.

This is why this guys love clouds :-)

German labour union Verdi has announced Amazon Germany's employees will go on strike during the Christmas holiday

If nothing helps, do that Apple is doing

On February 10, 2016, the Board of Directors authorized the Company to repurchase up to $5 billion of the Company's common stock. The program allows the Company to repurchase its shares opportunistically from time to time when it believes that doing so would enhance long-term shareholder value. The repurchase authorization does not have a fixed expiration. Purchases may be effected through one or more open market transactions, privately negotiated transactions, transactions structured through investment banking institutions, or a combination of the foregoing. This stock repurchase authorization replaces the previous $2 billion stock repurchase authorization, approved by the Board of Directors in 2010.

Amazon Is Giving Its Workers Treehouses.

No, no, don't get me wrong. Not all workers, only management working in main offices. Others still will be working without breaks in sweatshop warehouses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/technology/forget-beanbag-chairs-amazon-is-giving-its-workers-treehouses.html

Market value. Just LOL.

The online retail giant said Thursday that opening new warehouses and shipping items with shorter delivery times caused its costs to soar in the third quarter. The company predicts heavy investments will continue through the rest of the year. Amazon opened 23 warehouses world-wide to fill orders since July, after opening just three in the first half of the year.

Well, they post some profit, but just to look good.

Typically, Amazon recovers only about 55% of the amount it spends on shipping, a number that has drawn new scrutiny after the company’s third-quarter earnings significantly missed expectations. As it expands its Prime service and other recent offerings, Amazon's net shipping costs—the difference between what it pays for shipping and the amount customers pay in shipping fees and Prime memberships—reached nearly $1.75 billion in the third quarter, its highest quarterly total ever outside of the peak holiday season

That free shipping for customers is an unsustainable trend fueled by giant companies like Amazon that aren’t accountable for profitability to investors in a meaningful way. "Amazon is pulling everyone into the gutter to play that [free shipping] game," Schwartz explained in a telephone conversation. "Amazon to me is the anchor that forces the industry to free shipping because Amazon isn’t held accountable to be profitable. This pulls all the other retailers into the same gutter, yet these other retailers are held accountable to be profitable—even if they’re not held to the same metrics that Amazon is held to.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3061686/free-shipping-is-a-lie

Wow, they subsidize everything! Are they really making enough $$ off of AWS services to cover all these market-share gobbling moves?

Theie big investors subsidize everything.
They do it not as present, but because they know capitalism laws.
Amazon is chewing small and medium businesses in US and around by hundreds and thousands. They just are growing up Godzilla, and as it'll grow up enough, price and delivery policies will change overnight.

If they get hit with an anti-trust suit in the next 2-3 years (Trump seems willing), investors are gonna lose their shirts!

Yeah, yeah, more probably they will meet aliens who will stop em.

Amazon has begun shipping products from Chinese merchant partners to its U.S. warehouses via its own ocean freighters.

Poor small guys

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2017.

Operating cash flow increased 53% to $17.6 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.6 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2016. Free cash flow increased to $10.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $6.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2016. Free cash flow less lease principal repayments increased to $6.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $3.8 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2016. Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases increased to $3.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2016.

Net sales increased 23% to $35.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $29.1 billion in first quarter 2016. Excluding the $492 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 24% compared with first quarter 2016.

Stocks are doing very good

According to a 2017 academic study, Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street are the largest combined shareholder of 40 percent of all publicly listed companies in the US, accounting for a market capitalization of $17 trillion, roughly equal to the total GDP of the United States.