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Amazon.com, Inc.AMZNTOP PICKJul 11, 2013Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 18, 2026. Market Open.
Compounder. Have to hold your nose to buy at current valuations, but you only have to look 2-3 years down the road to get to a more comfortable valuation. AWS is a driver, and AI will really come to the fore over the next 2 years. Invested heavily in e-commerce, and it's starting to see some profitability, juggernaut of the future.
Excellent company with strong assets in cloud computing and Amazon Web Services. eCommerce also continuing to preform well. Participated in "Magnificent 7 Rally". Has been earnings estimates the past 3 quarters. Increased demands in A.I. will contribute to demand in web services. Profit margins are exceptional in software. Will continue to hold. Believes growth is sustainable and will continue.
It is the biggest player in e-commerce and has a variety of products. Soon it can even sell cars. Also it is growing its cloud business. In addition it has a huge advertising business which is competing with Google and others. It has cut back on costs and is well structured.
Believes that you buy the leader in an industry if you want to participate. In retail, the high growth area is web based retail. They are in hardware with their Kindle as well as cloud computing but their main business is retail. Compound annual growth rate over the last 5 years of 30% a year. Going forward it will grow at about the same rate. The big knock has been that they have spent money to become dominant and the risk is that they continue to spend too much money. Current estimates are that they earn $3 a share.