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Amazon has been trading sideways to lower for nearly two years. Is AMZN stock worth investing in now before the 20-for-1 stock split?

The expected stock split date for Amazon shares is early June. The company's shares have rocketed over 4,000% since its last stock split announcement. In the video below, I break down Amazon earnings highlights. On March 9, Amazon announced a 20-for-1 stock split, the company's first split since 1999 and its fourth since its IPO in 1997.

Amazon stock plunged as the e-commerce giant reported a first-quarter loss after the market close Thursday, with guidance well below views.

The company's Amazon Web Services reported revenue of $18.44 billion, above estimates of $18.27 billion. The company also put in place a $10 billion Amazon stock buyback plan. Amazon now expects an operating loss of $1 billion to $3 billion, compared with a $7.7 billion loss in the year-ago quarter. Analysts were expecting Amazon to report earnings of $8.35 a share on revenue of $116.5 billion, according to FactSet, but that apparently didn't include the Rivian loss. Amazon ( AMZN) blamed the pandemic, inflation and Russia's invasion of Ukraine for its weak outlook, among other things. The first-quarter results came late Thursday. For its second quarter ending in June, Amazon expects revenue in the range of $116 billion to $121 billion.

Amazon reported slowing growth and a net loss in its quarterly earnings · The company is a cyclical business that I expect to do better in favourable economic ...

I still expect Amazon to perform well over time, so I don’t see the falling share price as a cause for concern. Overall, the decline in revenue growth is in line with my general outlook for Amazon as a business. As a cyclical business, I expect Amazon to do better when macroeconomic conditions are good and worse when they are difficult. Amazon reported revenue growth of around 7%. For a business that has consistently increased its revenues at over 20%, that seems disappointing. If the company is performing in line with my expectations, then I probably have nothing to worry about. Since it owns a large quantity of Rivian shares, Amazon reported the decline as a $7.6bn loss on its income statement.

Shares of Amazon collapsed Friday after the ecommerce monolith reported worse-than-expected earnings spurred by high inflation and lingering supply chain ...

Post also touted a "large profit pool" from Amazon Web Services and reiterated a buy rating for the stock. "Fears of slowing growth, higher interest rates, uncertainty about supply chains and geopolitical events have weighed on the broader market, but tech has carried the brunt of the pain," Ally Invest strategist Lindsey Bell wrote in a Friday note, adding: "It's been an ugly month for the technology sector." Shares of Tesla plummeted 12% Tuesday, pushing the firm's market capitalization down by more than $125 billion.

Amazon has reported first quarter (Q1) 2022 results which have fallen short of market expectations. A summary of the financial results are as follows:.

No representation or warranty is given as to the accuracy or completeness of this information. The share price of Amazon Inc. has broken key support at 2720 in afterhours trade following the results release. Traders who are short might consider using a close above $2720 as a stop loss indication for the trade. Amazon has and is continuing to face pressure on its business through inflation (stemming from labour and logistic / fuels costs) as well as the Ukraine / Russia war and supply chain bottlenecks. The Rivian investment is likely to weigh further as the share price is currently down another 40% odd since 1 of April. The prior year’s Covid-19 pandemic supported earnings in Q1 2022 providing a high base of comparison, but the extent of lost earnings in the Q1 2022 have underperformed even the softest forecasts.

At the same time Apple warns that its sales could be hit by up to $8bn in the coming months.

Amazon invested in Rivian in 2019 with plans for an electric delivery fleet and owns a near-20% stake in the company. The company warned of a $4bn-$8bn hit to its sales in the three months to the end of June because of disruptions to global supply chains. The company reported a loss of $3.8bn, mainly due to a loss of $7.6bn on the value of its stake in Rivian. The company has increased wages to attract staff in the face of labour shortages and is also facing a widening drive to introduce unions in the US. Online sales at the e-commerce giant slipped 3% in the first three months of the year, as the boom to its business from the pandemic starts to fade. Amazon has reported its first quarterly loss since 2015 due to lower online sales and a fall in the value of its shares in electric vehicle firm Rivian.

A volatile April for stock markets is ending on an upbeat note, despite Amazon's below par results dealing another blow to confidence in the technology ...

“In view of the current geopolitical situation, the reliable energy supply for households and companies must be reprioritised in the short term. The mammoth share sales came after Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion at the start of the week. There’s some fire-fighting to be done: where once Netflix’s founder and chief executive Reed Hastings said “we love people sharing Netflix”, the latest wobbly figures have triggered a change of approach. Ads are on their way too, but will take at least a year to roll out. Filings published last night showed Musk had sold a chunk of the company worth around $4.5 billion. Sales of the vaccine increased fourfold in the first quarter of the year to more than $1.1 billion (£876 million). However, in Europe sales were down by 40%. The network that evolved from infamous advertising shop Saatchi & Saatchi in 1995 said it would now reinstate its dividend for 2022, after failing to pay it last year, and said it expects to achieve between £31 million and £41 million in profits during 2022. Here’s a flavour of her piece: The German multinational, which supplies policies across the oil and gas sector, pledged to stop insuring new oil and gas fields, oil powerplants, and oil pipelines in the Arctic by January 2023. Insurance giant Allianz is to cease insuring Arctic oil and gas fields, clamping down on policy renewals by the middle of next year as part of a push for a greener future. Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky set out the new policy in an email to employees and said that in a decade flexible working would be the norm for most companies. “The firm therefore isn’t answering any of the questions begged by its mixed-bag fourth-quarter results from last year and shareholders also need to note that the company was cash-flow negative for the sixth time in eight quarters.”

Shares of Amazon plunged 12% on Friday, marking its biggest intraday drop since July 2014. The drop comes one day after the tech titan reported its first ...

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AMZN stock is falling today after the e-commerce giant disappointed investors with its results and outlook for the second quarter.

The company reported that Amazon Web Services earned $18.44 billion versus the $18.27 billion estimate. On the date of publication, Joel Baglole did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. That was the slowest rate of revenue growth at Amazon since the dot-com bubble burst back in 2001. The company said that it has been struggling with multiple challenges this year, including rising inflation, higher fuel and labor costs, global supply chain constraints, the ongoing pandemic, and war in Ukraine. Looking ahead, Amazon provided weaker-than-expected guidance for the current second quarter, forecasting growth of between 3% and 7% from a year ago. The Rivian loss aside, revenue at Amazon increased just 7% during the first quarter, compared with 44% growth in the first quarter of 2021.

Amazon.com Inc. shares are tumbling on Friday, with the e-commerce company seeing its biggest intraday percentage drop since October 2011, after it gave an ...

Shares fell as much as 13%, taking them to their lowest since June 2020. The selloff erased more than $178 billion off the company’s market valuation. Amazon.com Inc. shares are tumbling on Friday, with the e-commerce company seeing its biggest intraday percentage drop since October 2011, after it gave an outlook that was seen as disappointing.

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By Denny Jacob Amazon.com Inc. shares fell to a 52-week low, a day after the tech giant posted its first quarterly loss in seven years. Shares fell to a low ...

On Friday, a number of firms cut their price targets. Analysts expected $8.35 a share. The stock is down 13% to $2,526.60.

The company on Thursday gave lighter-than-expected revenue guidance for the current quarter. Amazon also recorded a $7.6 billion loss on its investment in ...

Analysts like Truist Securities' Youssef Squali remain bullish that Amazon's outlook will improve in the second half of the year. The company's investment in electric vehicle maker Rivian weighed on its profits. Amazon invested heavily to staff up its warehouses and combat supply chain challenges, and it now faces rising inflation, as well as increasing transportation and labor costs. We estimate the company's earnings per share excluding the investment-related loss would be roughly $3.40, still 60% below consensus as the company continues to face headwinds related to shipping, labor, excess capacity, and tough prior-year comparisons." It could mark Amazon's worst day since January 2014 if the losses hold through the close. - The company on Thursday gave lighter-than-expected revenue guidance for the current quarter.

Amazon's reported first-quarter revenue of $116.4 (£92.4) billion was broadly in line with market expectations. However, its year-on-year revenue growth rate of ...

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