On July 25, Q2 2013 earnings was released by Amazon that was expected between $14.5 billion to $16.2 billion, involving growth of about 13% and 26% over the second quarter of 2012.
One of the best things about Amazon is it doesn’t provide granular detail about its business as it doesn’t want to disclose the ins and outs of its operations in front of investors, analysts and the media.
Wall Street expectations is missed by the Seattle-based retailer by taking lose of 2 cents a share on $15.7 billion in revenue in the June quarter. Now, the eye of all Analysts is on Amazon to earn 5 cents a share on $15.73 billion in revenue.
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Commenting on the Q2 of Amazon for 2013, Brian Pitz, Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst at Jefferies & Company, said “This is now the 7th straight quarter operating income has exceeded the high end of guidance, despite continuing investments.”
He is also going to raise price on Amazon to $350, mentioning income and CSOI margins being better-than-expected. With this, we have seen the decline against $16 billion in revenues that are mentioned in Q1 2013.
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Kindle shipments and higher digital content also sell via will drive Amazon’s outcomes that enhance growth in global e-commerce volumes. In the Q4, twenty-two percent of growth is registered by the company that was chiefly driven by its services segment that saw 45% of increase in sales.
Moreover, strong sale also reported in electronics and other general merchandise and we suppose the Q2 to be no different, excluding for the seasonality.
In Q1, the company’s margins were improved because of the success of services segment that includes Amazon Web Services business. In order to support online activities, this business provides start-ups and big corporate clients with computers, data centers and bandwidth.
In addition, the war between Google, Microsoft and Amazon is ongoing the prices of these services recommends that the company enjoys substantial margins on these services.
According to our believe, the negative impact of the costs associated with fulfillment centers will be mitigated by the growing popularity of these services that Amazon is opening to moving fast the delivery of physical goods to customers.
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Growing Ratio of E-Commerce Market
We have seen marvelous growth in market research firm Forrester expects U.S. online retail. It almost takes market share away from physical stores. It is clear proof for the comparison of Amazon’s growth with traditional brick-and-mortar retailers such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Costco and Target.
It is also predicted by Forrester that the online retail market of US will reach $262 billion in 2013 that register about 13 percent growth over 2012. The future progress potential is huge and Amazon will help lead the way though the online channel still accounts for just 8 percent of total retail sales in the U.S. This progress furthermore harmonized by traditional stores that are investing in web businesses to support a multichannel strategy and the global adoption of Internet and smart devices.
According to the forecast of the research firm, it is predicted that annual growth rate of 9% is seen for the next 5 years. Moreover, other eMarketer forecasts U.S. retail sales forecasted 14% CAGR growth over the next few years. That means an increasing from a predictable $225 billion in 2012 to close to $434 billion in 2017.
No matter how much revenue Amazon earns, it continues to invest in its businesses into a wide array of segments to increase growth in eCommerce era. We are hoping for best and supposing to have smile on every box.
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