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- Choose a stock trading platform. Use our comparison table or choose from our Top Picks below.
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- Is Amazon suitable for ethical investing?
- Are Amazon shares over-valued?
- Amazon's financials
- How volatile are Amazon shares?
- Does Amazon pay a dividend?
- Have Amazon shares ever split?
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What is Amazon?
Led by business magnate Jeff Bezos, Amazon (AMZN) is a global retail giant and one of the five biggest listed companies in the United States by market capitalization. It's best known globally for its Amazon marketplace and video-streaming service, Amazon Prime. Besides its cloud computing branch, Amazon Web Services, Amazon also manufactures and sells electronic devices such as the Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs and the Echo.
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Is it a good time to buy Amazon stock?
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Amazon price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the close of $204.61 from 2024-11-19
| 1 week (2024-11-13) | -4.43% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-10-21) | 8.22% |
| 3 months (2024-08-20) | 14.38% |
| 6 months (2024-05-20) | 11.48% |
| 1 year (2023-11-20) | 40.02% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-11-18) | 117.35% |
| 3 years (2021-11-19) | 3676.5701 |
| 5 years (2019-11-20) | 1745.53 |
Amazon financials
| Revenue TTM | $620.1 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 10.96% |
| Gross profit TTM | $225.2 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 7.07% |
| Return on equity TTM | 22.56% |
| Profit margin | 8.04% |
| Book value | $24.66 |
| Market capitalisation | $2.2 trillion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Amazon share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Amazon's shares have ranged in value from as little as $141.5 up to $215.9. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Amazon's is 1.146. This would suggest that Amazon's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Amazon overview
Amazon. com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products, advertising, and subscriptions service through online and physical stores in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, Echo, Ring, Blink, and eero; and develops and produces media content. In addition, the company offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products in its stores; and programs that allow authors, independent publishers, musicians, filmmakers, Twitch streamers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, it provides compute, storage, database, analytics, machine learning, and other services, as well as advertising services through programs, such as sponsored ads, display, and video advertising.
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