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Shares of Amazon (AMZN 7.38%) surged last month as it rode a broader recovery in tech stocks and made a number of operational announcements that seemed to ...

Analysts expect just 6% top-line growth and a steep drop in profits, which could give the company a low bar to jump over, but it also shows the challenges Amazon is facing. Amazon also announced that it would open its Buy with Prime program to any eligible sellers in the U.S. With today's gains, the stock is up roughly 40% since its bottom last December, showing a dramatic shift in sentiment toward Amazon stock. The Buy with Prime program allows online retailers on platforms outside of Amazon to add the Prime badge to listings and offer Prime members free shipping and returns. As for the company itself, there were several news items that seemed to drive the stock higher. Inflation continued to cool off, and investors anticipated that the Federal Reserve would continue to slow its interest rate hikes, which it did on Feb.

Amazon.com Inc. projected lackluster revenue in the current quarter, worrying investors that the company's main e-commerce business has stalled and sales ...

Amazon Web Services is losing its luster with slowing growth and shrinking profit margins after a stellar run during the pandemic. The shares fell in extended trading. [Amazon.com Inc.](/quote/AMZN:US) tempered a recent feel-good period for investors by reporting that consumer demand remains soft and sales in its lucrative cloud-computing division will continue to slow through the year.

One day after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell charged up markets by saying any future interest rate hikes would depend on economic data, an admiss.

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Revenue at the company's closely watched Amazon Web Services unit were a little shy of expectations.

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AWS and Amazon's first-quarter forecast also miss analyst estimates amid concerns about cloud growth; CFO says AWS will show 'slower growth rates for the ...

In the fourth quarter, AWS produced operating income of $5.21 billion on revenue of $21.38 billion, with sales growing more than 20% and operating income declining slightly. Amazon reported an operating loss of $2.23 billion on revenue of $34.46 billion overseas, after a loss of $1.63 billion on sales of $37.27 billion a year ago. He noted that AWS revenue growth rates had been hit by customers looking to cut their cloud spending, and “we expect these optimization efforts will continue to be a headwind to AWS growth in at least the next couple of quarters.” [while] continuing to spend on everyday essentials.” Amazon recently announced it would start charging for grocery delivery for Prime members, which could increase revenue from sales of fresh food. Olsavsky said cuts in the company’s physical stores and device businesses would improve operating margins in North America. “But to our best estimations, when we look at the absolute dollar growth year over year, we still have significantly more absolute dollar growth than anybody else we see in this space.” Any slowdown in AWS would hit Amazon’s bottom line as well as its overall top line, and executives’ forecast for the first quarter shows less optimism than Wall Street expected. [was expected to post a loss for the whole year for the first time since 2014](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-expected-to-post-first-unprofitable-year-since-2014-and-worst-loss-since-the-dot-com-bust-11675197229?mod=article_inline), but worse-than-expected holiday earnings actually led Amazon to the company’s worst annual loss on record. Without those charges, Amazon would have exceeded expectations, and recognizing them in 2022 leaves a cleaner sheet for this year, when Amazon’s ability to return to strong profitability will be the focus of Wall Street. For the year, Amazon produced a net loss of $2.7 billion and revenue of $513.98 billion, up from $469.82 billion a year ago and the company’s first annual sales total to surpass a half-billion dollars. [RIVN, +5.94%](/investing/stock/RIVN?mod=MW_story_quote)stock, which cost Amazon $2.3 billion in net income in the quarter. Revenue increased to $149.2 billion from $137.41 billion a year ago.

Amazon's shares are down after the company reported its latest quarterly results. Here's what the company reported, versus what analysts expected on average ...

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock fell in late trading after it reported mixed results for the fourth quarter, with higher-than-expected sales through the.

This was the first time the company’s annual sales total streaked past a half-billion dollars. As expected, Amazon logged an expensive loss on its stake in electric-truck maker Rivian Automotive. However, revenue at the company’s closely watched Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit was a little shy of expectations. Analysts were expecting profit of $5.73 billion on sales of $21.85 billion, according to FactSet. However, whichever way you dice it Amazon reported its least profitable holiday quarter since 2014. For the year, Amazon also produced a net loss of $2.7 billion and revenue of $513.98 billion, up from $469.82 billion a year ago.

Amazon's (AMZN) Q4 2022 earnings report, released on Feb. 2, featured mixed results. The company clocked a revenue beat, but missed both EPS and Q1 guidance ...

Amazon's cloud business reports 20% growth in fourth quarter, missing estimates · While Amazon Web Services is growing faster than its parent company, the ...

Also in the quarter, AWS announced the availability of data center regions in [Spain](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221115006580/en/) and [Switzerland](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221108006274/en/). The standalone AWS operating margin, at 24.3%, has not been this narrow since 2017. In the fourth quarter, AWS generated $21.4 billion in revenue, representing This was the first quarter since at least 2015 in which AWS failed to increase its operating income year over year. But the AWS customer pipeline is very healthy, said Andy Jassy, Amazon's CEO and formerly the head of AWS. [Microsoft's](/quotes/MSFT/) Azure business and [supply-chain](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221129005850/en/), [clean-room](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221129005904/en/) and [security data storage](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221129005895/en/) services at its Reinvent conference. The AWS division ended up with $5.2 billion in operating income for the quarter, almost double the profit number for the full company. Google parent Alphabet reports earnings after the bell on Thursday. Migrations are still scheduled to happen, Jassy said. [Amazon](/quotes/AMZN/) said revenue in its cloud unit increased by 20% in the fourth quarter, a slower pace than analysts had projected and more sluggish than the [27.5% growth rate](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/27/aws-earnings-q3-2022.html) in the third quarter. [said last week](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2023.html) that revenue from Azure and other cloud services, which the company doesn't report in dollars, grew by 31% from the prior year, down from 35% in the previous period.

Amazon (AMZN) stock fell 5.1% afterhours on Thursday as the premier online retailer missed earnings per share (EPS) overall for the quarter ending in.

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Amazon on Thursday reported worse-than-expected fourth-quarter profits, but its revenue beat expectations boosted by sales in its cloud-computing unit AWS, ...

Amid the consumer pullback in online shopping, the company has relied on other profitable areas of its business to boost its revenue. Amazon has been further tightening its budget by eliminating certain parts of its business and laying off workers in the past few months amid rising concerns about whether the U.S. Amazon has been struggling to right-size its business in the past year as consumers pulled back from the pandemic-induced move towards online shopping. The company said Thursday its North America business grew by 13%, but expenses still outpaced growth. It said it expects revenue of between $121 billion and $126 billion during the current quarter. Amazon said it earned $300 million, or 3 cents per share, in the October-December quarter.

Amazon's growth prospects have deteriorated, and its profits could be vulnerable as a result.

The information and opinions in this report are for general information use only and are not intended as an offer or solicitation with respect to the purchase or sale of any currency or CFD contract. This report has been prepared without regard to the specific investment objectives, financial situation and needs of any particular recipient. Sales and profits from Amazon Web Services have more than doubled in the last three years alone. Its share price is currently trading below where it was before the pandemic began and yet, the company is considerably larger now than it was back in 2019. Amazon, which is much more labour-intensive than its rivals, has seen its overall workforce more than double in size since the start of the pandemic but now, with earnings under pressure, Amazon is having to reverse this and start trimming the fat after announcing 18,000 job cuts. However, with that representing just a tiny fraction of its workforce, more could be on the horizon if growth continues to stall – especially in ecommerce. Sales have grown just once in the last five quarters and are expected to fall, albeit mildly, once again in the first quarter of 2023. That was the fourth consecutive quarter of slower growth and was slower than what markets had hoped for. One of the biggest concerns for Amazon investors is the slowdown at AWS. Wall Street believes topline growth will continue to slow over the next three quarters before returning back above the 20% threshold in the final quarter of 2023. Ecommerce sales declined over 2% in the latest quarter as the surge in demand seen during the pandemic continues to unwind. Net sales grew 8.6% from the year before in the fourth quarter to $149.2 billion, which came in ahead of the $145.7 billion forecast by Wall Street.

Amazon's revenue grew 9% in the fourth quarter, which beat estimates. AWS posted its slowest-ever revenue growth at 20%.

On the call, management explained that it doubled its fulfillment network in just a couple of years, and it had added the equivalent of a UPS in delivery capabilities to keep up with demand during the pandemic. The company posted operating income of $12.2 billion for 2022, and revenue grew just 9% for the year. With the AWS growth story running out of steam and e-commerce losing billions each quarter, Amazon's fundamentals look weaker than they have in a long time. CFO Brian Olsavsky added that AWS customers have been focused on optimizing costs due to macroeconomic challenges, and that has impacted the growth rate of its cloud business. That slowdown wasn't entirely unexpected, as CFO Brian Olsavsky had warned about headwinds in AWS on the third-quarter earnings call, and the company's guidance called for just 2% to 8% overall revenue growth in Q4, implying challenges in AWS. It posted an operating loss of $10.6 billion for the year outside of AWS.