Amazon.com Inc 8-K 2015-10-22
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Amazon introduced four new tablets, including Fire, which has the best display on any tablet under $50 and is also available for an even lower price when purchased in a six-pack; Fire HD, the incredibly thin and light 8” and 10.1” tablets designed from the ground up for entertainment; and Fire Kids Edition, a tablet built for kids and their parents — now under $100. |
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Amazon introduced three new Fire TV devices, all with Alexa integration. The new Fire TV is 75% more powerful and has the best-in-class Wi-Fi and 4K Ultra HD — and is still less than $100. The new Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote adds voice search — and costs less than $50. Fire TV Gaming Edition combines the new Fire TV, new game controller, a 32GB microSD card, and two games — Shovel Knight and Disney’s DuckTales — all for under $140. |
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Amazon launched Fire TV and Fire TV Stick for Japanese customers, which provides easy, instant access to Prime Video, Amazon Video, Hulu, GYAO!, Netflix, YouTube.com, Niconico, Video Market, and more. In addition to the device, Amazon launched Prime Video on Amazon.co.jp, exclusively for Prime members, with thousands of popular Japanese and U.S. movies and TV shows, anime series, music concerts, and variety shows, plus Amazon’s own award-winning originals. |
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Alexa, the brain behind Echo, continues to get smarter with new features including support for shared Google calendars, integration of additional connected home devices from SmartThings and Insteon, NCAA football scores and schedules, and more. |
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Amazon announced new investments from the $100 million Alexa Fund, including Petnet, the creator of the SmartFeeder, an app-enabled intelligent feeding appliance; Musaic, a high-resolution wireless HiFi system that combines home automation to create a connected smart home; and Rachio, maker of a smart sprinkler controller that helps customers intelligently water their yards. |
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Amazon Dash Button has received an overwhelmingly positive customer response and selection continues to grow; customers can now choose from over 500 products from 29 popular brands. Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) now includes 15 device makers, such as General Electric, Samsung, and Oster. The first DRS-enabled devices are expected to ship later this year. |
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Amazon announced Amazon Underground, a new app for Android phones that includes the same functionality of the Amazon mobile shopping app plus over ten thousand dollars’ worth of apps, games, and in-app items, for free. |
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Amazon Studios’ critically-acclaimed series, Transparent, won five Emmys, including Jeffrey Tambor’s award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Jill Soloway’s award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series.
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Amazon announced an agreement with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and the trio’s longtime executive producer, Andy Wilman, to make a new car show exclusively for Prime members worldwide. The award-winning team has committed to three seasons. |
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Amazon Studios recently debuted new original series Red Oaks, Hand of God, and Wishenpoof, with more content coming soon, including the much anticipated The Man in the High Castle and season two of Transparent and Tumble Leaf. In addition, Amazon has announced 12 pilots that are scheduled to debut later this year.
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Amazon.co.uk launched Prime Music, giving U.K. Prime members over one million songs and hundreds of playlists to stream and download for free. |
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Prime Music expanded its catalog in the U.S. and U.K. with the addition of artists from Universal Music Group, including Katy Perry, Lana Del Rey, Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, Of Monsters and Men, Ellie Goulding, and many more award-winning popular and legendary artists. |
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Prime Now added eight metro areas in the past quarter. Prime members can now choose from tens of thousands of daily essentials with free two-hour and paid one-hour delivery in 17 locations around the world. |
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Amazon launched Amazon Pantry in Japan and Germany. Amazon Pantry offers Prime members a different way to shop, allowing them to purchase daily essentials in everyday sizes and have items delivered for a low, flat-rate fee per Amazon Pantry box. |
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Amazon introduced Handmade at Amazon, featuring genuinely handcrafted products sold directly from artisans around the world. |
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Customers in both the U.K. and France rated Amazon as their top retailer based on separate surveys conducted by Havas and OC&C Strategy Consultants. |
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Amazon continues to expand its international categories with the launch of the Business, Industrial and Scientific Supplies store for Japan, U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and Spain with hundreds of thousands of items available for businesses. Additionally, Amazon launched Grocery for Italy, France, and Spain with thousands of food products and household essentials from local producers and international brands. |
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Amazon expects to create over 100,000 seasonal positions in North America, and over 40,000 across its European Fulfillment Network this holiday season. Last year, Amazon converted tens of thousands of temporary employees into regular, full-time roles, and expects to do the same this year. |
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Since the fulfillment center tour program launched last year, over 26,000 people have visited one of the 18 facilities where tours are offered worldwide. |
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Launched in late June, Amazon.com.mx has expanded selection to 32 million items, added three new categories, started offering monthly installments for select purchases, and expanded delivery on weekends and holidays to over 70% of zip codes in Mexico City. |
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Amazon.in continues to be India’s largest store with over 30 million products, having added an average of over 40,000 products a day so far in 2015. |
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In the past year, the number of sellers on the Amazon.in platform has increased more than 250%, and nearly 90% of Indian sellers are using Amazon’s logistics and warehousing services. To serve this growing storage need, Amazon.in has nearly tripled its fulfillment capacity year-over-year.
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In the third quarter, active customers on Amazon.in grew over 230% year-over-year. |
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So far, Amazon.in’s 2015 Diwali season is our largest ever, with daily sales of approximately 4x the prior year.
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Amazon launched Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.in with over one million titles for 199 rupees a month, less than the average price of a single print book. |
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosted re:Invent, its fourth annual customer and partner conference, with more than 19,000 attendees and 38,000 streaming participants. |
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Accenture and AWS announced the formation of the Accenture AWS Business Group, a team of dedicated professionals from both Accenture and AWS that will help enterprise customers more easily migrate their existing applications and build new applications for the AWS Cloud. |
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AWS introduced Amazon QuickSight, a very fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for all employees, regardless of their technical skill, to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from their data at 1/10th the cost of traditional solutions. QuickSight integrates automatically with AWS data services and uses a new, Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine (“SPICE”) to perform advanced calculations, render visualizations rapidly, and scale to hundreds of thousands of users. |
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AWS launched new capabilities to make it faster, easier, and more cost-effective to move data from on-premises into the AWS Cloud. AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport appliance that can securely transfer 50 TB of data per appliance into and out of AWS for as little as 1/5th the cost of high-speed Internet. Amazon Kinesis Firehose is a fully-managed service that captures streaming data from hundreds of thousands of different sources and automatically loads it into Amazon S3 or Amazon Redshift for near real-time data analysis. |
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AWS announced new database tools and services that make it easier for enterprises to bring databases to AWS and break free from the cost and complexity of traditional commercial databases. The AWS Database Migration Service monitors the progress of database migrations, notifying customers of any issues and automatically provisioning a host replacement in the event of a failure. The AWS Schema Conversion Tool ports database schemas and stored procedures from one database platform to another, so customers can move their applications from Oracle and SQL Server to Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, and soon PostgreSQL. In the first week after AWS re:Invent, more than 1,000 customers have signed up to use AWS’s new Database Migration Service. |
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In just four months since becoming generally available in July, Amazon Aurora has become the fastest-growing service in the history of AWS. |
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AWS launched AWS IoT, a managed cloud platform that lets billions of connected devices — such as mobile phones, cars, factory floors, aircraft engines, sensor grids, and more — easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT can support trillions of messages, and can process, route, and keep track of those messages to AWS endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely, even when the devices aren’t connected. |
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AWS announced three new services and capabilities to make it easier for enterprises to build and manage secure, compliant applications on the AWS Cloud: Amazon Inspector is a service that automatically assesses how well customers’ applications follow security best practices and provides a detailed report to help fix any vulnerabilities found; AWS Config Rules is a new set of cloud governance capabilities that allow IT Administrators to define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor compliance with those guidelines; and AWS WAF is a web application firewall that protects applications from common web exploits by giving customers control over which traffic to allow or block to their web applications by defining customizable web security rules. |
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Net sales are expected to be between $33.50 billion and $36.75 billion, or to grow between 14% and 25% compared with fourth quarter 2014.
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Operating income is expected to be between $80 million and $1.28 billion, compared to $591 million in fourth quarter 2014.
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This guidance includes approximately $620 million for stock-based compensation and amortization of intangible assets, and it assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, investments, restructurings, or legal settlements are concluded and that there are no further revisions to stock-based compensation estimates.
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Three Months Ended September 30, |
Nine Months Ended September 30, |
Twelve Months Ended September 30, |
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2015 |
2014 |
2015 |
2014 |
2015 |
2014 |
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CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD |
$ |
10,269 |
$ |
5,057 |
$ |
14,557 |
$ |
8,658 |
$ |
5,258 |
$ |
3,872 |
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OPERATING ACTIVITIES: |
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Net income (loss) |
79 |
(437 |
) |
114 |
(455 |
) |
328 |
(216 |
) |
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Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash from operating activities: |
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Depreciation of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, and other amortization, including capitalized content costs |
1,599 |
1,247 |
4,529 |
3,366 |
5,908 |
4,329 |
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Stock-based compensation |
544 |
377 |
1,513 |
1,089 |
1,921 |
1,414 |
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Other operating expense (income), net |
34 |
31 |
120 |
93 |
156 |
133 |
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Losses (gains) on sales of marketable securities, net |
2 |
(3 |
) |
4 |
(4 |
) |
4 |
(3 |
) |
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Other expense (income), net |
56 |
42 |
166 |
(16 |
) |
244 |
36 |
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Deferred income taxes |
(63 |
) |
(270 |
) |
(108 |
) |
(503 |
) |
76 |
(613 |
) |
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Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation |
(95 |
) |
— |
(212 |
) |
(121 |
) |
(96 |
) |
(199 |
) |
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Changes in operating assets and liabilities: |
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Inventories |
(1,537 |
) |
(845 |
) |
(844 |
) |
(54 |
) |
(1,983 |
) |
(1,383 |
) |
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Accounts receivable, net and other |
(588 |
) |
(362 |
) |
(577 |
) |
66 |
(1,681 |
) |
(1,173 |
) |
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Accounts payable |
2,030 |
1,724 |
(1,846 |
) |
(3,294 |
) |
3,207 |
1,834 |
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Accrued expenses and other |
143 |
4 |
(925 |
) |
(742 |
) |
525 |
847 |
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Additions to unearned revenue |
1,779 |
1,069 |
4,979 |
3,055 |
6,358 |
3,874 |
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Amortization of previously unearned revenue |
(1,373 |
) |
(811 |
) |
(3,805 |
) |
(2,353 |
) |
(5,144 |
) |
(3,175 |
) |
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Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities |
2,610 |
1,766 |
3,108 |
127 |
9,823 |
5,705 |
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INVESTING ACTIVITIES: |
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Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development |
(1,195 |
) |
(1,378 |
) |
(3,280 |
) |
(3,748 |
) |
(4,424 |
) |
(4,628 |
) |
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Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other |
(105 |
) |
(860 |
) |
(478 |
) |
(926 |
) |
(531 |
) |
(986 |
) |
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Sales and maturities of marketable securities |
1,045 |
1,439 |
1,890 |
2,994 |
2,244 |
3,509 |
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Purchases of marketable securities |
(1,122 |
) |
(147 |
) |
(2,732 |
) |
(920 |
) |
(4,354 |
) |
(1,339 |
) |
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Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities |
(1,377 |
) |
(946 |
) |
(4,600 |
) |
(2,600 |
) |
(7,065 |
) |
(3,444 |
) |
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FINANCING ACTIVITIES: |
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Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation |
95 |
— |
212 |
121 |
96 |
199 |
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Proceeds from long-term debt and other |
33 |
28 |
260 |
379 |
6,241 |
628 |
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Repayments of long-term debt and other |
(181 |
) |
(84 |
) |
(712 |
) |
(331 |
) |
(894 |
) |
(371 |
) |
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Principal repayments of capital lease obligations |
(656 |
) |
(343 |
) |
(1,738 |
) |
(878 |
) |
(2,144 |
) |
(1,103 |
) |
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Principal repayments of finance lease obligations |
(21 |
) |
(13 |
) |
(95 |
) |
(68 |
) |
(163 |
) |
(73 |
) |
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Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities |
(730 |
) |
(412 |
) |
(2,073 |
) |
(777 |
) |
3,136 |
(720 |
) |
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Foreign-currency effect on cash and cash equivalents |
(63 |
) |
(207 |
) |
(283 |
) |
(150 |
) |
(443 |
) |
(155 |
) |
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Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents |
440 |
201 |
(3,848 |
) |
(3,400 |
) |
5,451 |
1,386 |
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CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD |
$ |
10,709 |
$ |
5,258 |
$ |
10,709 |
$ |
5,258 |
$ |
10,709 |
$ |
5,258 |
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SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION: |
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Cash paid for interest on long-term debt |
$ |
7 |
$ |
7 |
$ |
177 |
$ |
56 |
$ |
212 |
$ |
93 |
|||||||||||
Cash paid for income taxes (net of refunds) |
80 |
38 |
200 |
148 |
230 |
173 |
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Property and equipment acquired under capital leases |
1,047 |
1,158 |
3,385 |
2,794 |
4,599 |
3,347 |
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Property and equipment acquired under build-to-suit leases |
125 |
343 |
381 |
707 |
595 |
920 |
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Three Months Ended September 30, |
Nine Months Ended September 30, |
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2015 |
2014 |
2015 |
2014 |
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Net product sales |
$ |
18,463 |
$ |
16,022 |
$ |
52,650 |
$ |
46,978 |
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Net service sales |
6,895 |
4,557 |
18,609 |
12,681 |
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Total net sales |
25,358 |
20,579 |
71,259 |
59,659 |
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Operating expenses (1): |
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Cost of sales |
16,755 |
14,627 |
47,310 |
42,080 |
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Fulfillment |
3,230 |
2,643 |
8,865 |
7,342 |
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Marketing |
1,264 |
993 |
3,496 |
2,806 |
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Technology and content |
3,197 |
2,423 |
8,971 |
6,639 |
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General and administrative |
463 |
406 |
1,357 |
1,110 |
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Other operating expense (income), net |
43 |
31 |
136 |
94 |
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Total operating expenses |
24,952 |
21,123 |
70,135 |
60,071 |
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Income (loss) from operations |
406 |
(544 |
) |
1,124 |
(412 |
) |
|||||||||
Interest income |
13 |
9 |
37 |
31 |
|||||||||||
Interest expense |
(116 |
) |
(49 |
) |
(344 |
) |
(136 |
) |
|||||||
Other income (expense), net |
(56 |
) |
(50 |
) |
(187 |
) |
(23 |
) |
|||||||
Total non-operating income (expense) |
(159 |
) |
(90 |
) |
(494 |
) |
(128 |
) |
|||||||
Income (loss) before income taxes |
247 |
(634 |
) |
630 |
(540 |
) |
|||||||||
Benefit (provision) for income taxes |
(161 |
) |
205 |
(498 |
) |
38 |
|||||||||
Equity-method investment activity, net of tax |
(7 |
) |
(8 |
) |
(18 |
) |
47 |
||||||||
Net income (loss) |
$ |
79 |
$ |
(437 |
) |
$ |
114 |
$ |
(455 |
) |
|||||
Basic earnings per share |
$ |
0.17 |
$ |
(0.95 |
) |
$ |
0.24 |
$ |
(0.99 |
) |
|||||
Diluted earnings per share |
$ |
0.17 |
$ |
(0.95 |
) |
$ |
0.24 |
$ |
(0.99 |
) |
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Weighted average shares used in computation of earnings per share: |
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Basic |
468 |
463 |
467 |
461 |
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Diluted |
478 |
463 |
476 |
461 |
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(1) Includes stock-based compensation as follows: |
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Fulfillment |
$ |
122 |
$ |
93 |
$ |
344 |
$ |
278 |
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Marketing |
48 |
32 |
133 |
91 |
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Technology and content |
309 |
204 |
861 |
579 |
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General and administrative |
65 |
48 |
175 |
141 |
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Three Months Ended September 30, |
Nine Months Ended September 30, |
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2015 |
2014 |
2015 |
2014 |
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Net income (loss) |
$ |
79 |
$ |
(437 |
) |
$ |
114 |
$ |
(455 |
) |
|||||
Other comprehensive income (loss): |
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Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $4, $(1), $3, and $0 |
(56 |
) |
(248 |
) |
(170 |
) |
(209 |
) |
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Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities: |
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Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $3, $2, $(5), and $1 |
(3 |
) |
(1 |
) |
3 |
2 |
|||||||||
Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in “Other income (expense), net,” net of tax of $(1), $(1), $(1), and $(1) |
1 |
(2 |
) |
3 |
(2 |
) |
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Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities |
(2 |
) |
(3 |
) |
6 |
— |
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Total other comprehensive income (loss) |
(58 |
) |
(251 |
) |
(164 |
) |
(209 |
) |
|||||||
Comprehensive income (loss) |
$ |
21 |
$ |
(688 |
) |
$ |
(50 |
) |
$ |
(664 |
) |
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Three Months Ended September 30, |
Nine Months Ended September 30, |
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2015 |
2014 |
2015 |
2014 |
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North America |
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Net sales |
$ |
15,006 |
$ |
11,699 |
$ |
42,208 |
$ |
33,499 |
|||||||
Segment operating expenses (1) |
14,478 |
11,759 |
40,461 |
32,940 |
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Segment operating income (loss) |
$ |
528 |
$ |
(60 |
) |
$ |
1,747 |
$ |
559 |
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International |
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Net sales |
$ |
8,267 |
$ |
7,711 |
$ |
23,577 |
$ |
22,936 |
|||||||
Segment operating expenses (1) |
8,323 |
7,885 |
23,728 |
23,144 |
|||||||||||
Segment operating income (loss) |
$ |
(56 |
) |
$ |
(174 |
) |
$ |
(151 |
) |
$ |
(208 |
) |
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AWS |
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Net sales |
$ |
2,085 |
$ |
1,169 |
$ |
5,474 |
$ |
3,224 |
|||||||
Segment operating expenses (1) |
1,564 |
1,071 |
4,297 |
2,804 |
|||||||||||
Segment operating income (loss) |
$ |
521 |
$ |
98 |
$ |
1,177 |
$ |
420 |
|||||||
Consolidated |
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Net sales |
$ |
25,358 |
$ |
20,579 |
$ |
71,259 |
$ |
59,659 |
|||||||
Segment operating expenses (1) |
24,365 |
20,715 |
68,486 |
58,888 |
|||||||||||
Segment operating income (loss) |
993 |
(136 |
) |
2,773 |
771 |
||||||||||
Stock-based compensation |
(544 |
) |
(377 |
) |
(1,513 |
) |
(1,089 |
) |
|||||||
Other operating income (expense), net |
(43 |
) |
(31 |
) |
(136 |
) |
(94 |
) |
|||||||
Income (loss) from operations |
406 |
(544 |
) |
1,124 |
(412 |
) |
|||||||||
Total non-operating income (expense) |
(159 |
) |
(90 |
) |
(494 |
) |
(128 |
) |
|||||||
Benefit (provision) for income taxes |
(161 |
) |
205 |
(498 |
) |
38 |
|||||||||
Equity-method investment activity, net of tax |
(7 |
) |
(8 |
) |
(18 |
) |
47 |
||||||||
Net income (loss) |
$ |
79 |
$ |
(437 |
) |
$ |
114 |
$ |
(455 |
) |
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Segment Highlights: |
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Y/Y net sales growth: |
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North America |
28 |
% |
23 |
% |
26 |
% |
24 |
% |
|||||||
International |
7 |
14 |
3 |
17 |
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AWS |
78 |
43 |
70 |
50 |
|||||||||||
Consolidated |
23 |
20 |
19 |
22 |
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Net sales mix: |
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North America |
59 |
% |
57 |
% |
59 |
% |
56 |
% |
|||||||
International |
33 |
37 |
33 |
39 |
|||||||||||
AWS |
8 |
6 |
8 |
5 |
|||||||||||
Consolidated |
100 |
% |
100 |
% |
100 |
% |
100 |
% |
|||||||
(1) |
Excludes stock-based compensation and “Other operating expense (income), net,” which are not allocated to segments. |
Three Months Ended September 30, |
Nine Months Ended September 30, |
||||||||||||||
2015 |
2014 |
2015 |
2014 |
||||||||||||
Net Sales: |
|||||||||||||||
North America |
|||||||||||||||
Media |
$ |
2,963 |
$ |
2,734 |
$ |
8,552 |
$ |
8,022 |
|||||||
Electronics and other general merchandise |
11,840 |
8,793 |
33,077 |
24,988 |
|||||||||||
Other (1) |
203 |
172 |
579 |
489 |
|||||||||||
Total North America |
$ |
15,006 |
$ |
11,699 |
$ |
42,208 |
$ |
33,499 |
|||||||
International |
|||||||||||||||
Media |
$ |
2,320 |
$ |
2,510 |
$ |
6,734 |
$ |
7,532 |
|||||||
Electronics and other general merchandise |
5,901 |
5,160 |
16,705 |
15,260 |
|||||||||||
Other (1) |
46 |
41 |
138 |
144 |
|||||||||||
Total International |
$ |
8,267 |
$ |
7,711 |
$ |
23,577 |
$ |
22,936 |
|||||||
Year-over-year Percentage Growth: |
|||||||||||||||
North America |
|||||||||||||||
Media |
8 |
% |
5 |
% |
7 |
% |
10 |
% |
|||||||
Electronics and other general merchandise |
35 |
31 |
32 |
29 |
|||||||||||
Other |
18 |
20 |
19 |
19 |
|||||||||||
Total North America |
28 |
23 |
26 |
24 |
|||||||||||
International |
|||||||||||||||
Media |
(8 |
)% |
4 |
% |
(11 |
)% |
5 |
% |
|||||||
Electronics and other general merchandise |
14 |
20 |
9 |
24 |
|||||||||||
Other |
10 |
(18 |
) |
(4 |
) |
(1 |
) |
||||||||
Total International |
7 |
14 |
3 |
17 |
|||||||||||
Year-over-year Percentage Growth, excluding the effect of foreign exchange rates: |
|||||||||||||||
North America |
|||||||||||||||
Media |
9 |
% |
5 |
% |
7 |
% |
10 |
% |
|||||||
Electronics and other general merchandise |
35 |
31 |
33 |
29 |
|||||||||||
Other |
18 |
20 |
18 |
19 |
|||||||||||
Total North America |
29 |
23 |
26 |
24 |
|||||||||||
International |
|||||||||||||||
Media |
6 |
% |
3 |
% |
4 |
% |
4 |
% |
|||||||
Electronics and other general merchandise |
32 |
19 |
28 |
22 |
|||||||||||
Other |
26 |
(19 |
) |
11 |
(3 |
) |
|||||||||
Total International |
24 |
13 |
20 |
15 |
|||||||||||
(1) |
Includes sales from non-retail activities, such as certain advertising services and our co-branded credit card agreements. |
September 30, 2015 |
December 31, 2014 |
||||||
(unaudited) |
|||||||
ASSETS |
|||||||
Current assets: |
|||||||
Cash and cash equivalents |
$ |
10,709 |
$ |
14,557 |
|||
Marketable securities |
3,719 |
2,859 |
|||||
Inventories |
8,981 |
8,299 |
|||||
Accounts receivable, net and other |
5,440 |
5,612 |
|||||
Total current assets |
28,849 |
31,327 |
|||||
Property and equipment, net |
20,636 |
16,967 |
|||||
Goodwill |
3,529 |
3,319 |
|||||
Other assets |
3,216 |
2,892 |
|||||
Total assets |
$ |
56,230 |
$ |
54,505 |
|||
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY |
|||||||
Current liabilities: |
|||||||
Accounts payable |
$ |
14,437 |
$ |
16,459 |
|||
Accrued expenses and other |
9,157 |
9,807 |
|||||
Unearned revenue |
3,063 |
1,823 |
|||||
Total current liabilities |
26,657 |
28,089 |
|||||
Long-term debt |
8,243 |
8,265 |
|||||
Other long-term liabilities |
8,900 |
7,410 |
|||||
Commitments and contingencies |
|||||||
Stockholders’ equity: |
|||||||
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value: |
|||||||
Authorized shares — 500 |
|||||||
Issued and outstanding shares — none |
— |
— |
|||||
Common stock, $0.01 par value: |
|||||||
Authorized shares — 5,000 |
|||||||
Issued shares — 492 and 488 |
|||||||
Outstanding shares — 469 and 465 |
5 |
5 |
|||||
Treasury stock, at cost |
(1,837 |
) |
(1,837 |
) |
|||
Additional paid-in capital |
12,874 |
11,135 |
|||||
Accumulated other comprehensive loss |
(675 |
) |
(511 |
) |
|||
Retained earnings |
2,063 |
1,949 |
|||||
Total stockholders’ equity |
12,430 |
10,741 |
|||||
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity |
$ |
56,230 |
$ |
54,505 |
|||
Q3 2014 |
Q4 2014 |
Q1 2015 |
Q2 2015 |
Q3 2015 |
Y/Y %
Change
|
||||||||||||
Cash Flows and Shares |
|||||||||||||||||
Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM) |
$ |
5,705 |
$ |
6,842 |
$ |
7,845 |
$ |
8,980 |
$ |
9,823 |
72 |
% |
|||||
Purchases of property and equipment (incl. internal-use software & website development) -- TTM |
$ |
4,628 |
$ |
4,893 |
$ |
4,684 |
$ |
4,607 |
$ |
4,424 |
(4 |
)% |
|||||
Principal repayments of capital lease obligations -- TTM |
$ |
1,103 |
$ |
1,285 |
$ |
1,537 |
$ |
1,832 |
$ |
2,144 |
94 |
% |
|||||
Principal repayments of finance lease obligations -- TTM |
$ |
73 |
$ |
135 |
$ |
132 |
$ |
155 |
$ |
163 |
125 |
% |
|||||
Property and equipment acquired under capital leases -- TTM |
$ |
3,347 |
$ |
4,008 |
$ |
4,246 |
$ |
4,710 |
$ |
4,599 |
37 |
% |
|||||
Free cash flow -- TTM (1) |
$ |
1,077 |
$ |
1,949 |
$ |
3,161 |
$ |
4,373 |
$ |
5,399 |
401 |
% |
|||||
Free cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth (decline) |
178 |
% |
(4 |
)% |
112 |
% |
321 |
% |
401 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Invested capital (2) |
$ |
18,715 |
$ |
21,021 |
$ |
23,090 |
$ |
25,289 |
$ |
27,425 |
47 |
% |
|||||
Free cash flow less lease principal repayments -- TTM (3) |
$ |
(99 |
) |
$ |
529 |
$ |
1,492 |
$ |
2,386 |
$ |
3,092 |
N/A |
|||||
Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and capital acquired under capital leases -- TTM (4) |
$ |
(2,343 |
) |
$ |
(2,194 |
) |
$ |
(1,217 |
) |
$ |
(492 |
) |
$ |
637 |
N/A |
||
Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding |
481 |
483 |
483 |
488 |
489 |
2 |
% |
||||||||||
Common shares outstanding |
463 |
465 |
466 |
468 |
469 |
1 |
% |
||||||||||
Stock awards outstanding |
18 |
18 |
17 |
20 |
20 |
13 |
% |
||||||||||
Stock awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding |
3.9 |
% |
3.8 |
% |
3.8 |
% |
4.4 |
% |
4.3 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Results of Operations |
|||||||||||||||||
Worldwide (WW) net sales |
$ |
20,579 |
$ |
29,328 |
$ |
22,717 |
$ |
23,185 |
$ |
25,358 |
23 |
% |
|||||
WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
20 |
% |
18 |
% |
22 |
% |
27 |
% |
30 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
WW net sales -- TTM |
$ |
85,246 |
$ |
88,988 |
$ |
91,963 |
$ |
95,808 |
$ |
100,588 |
18 |
% |
|||||
WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
22 |
% |
20 |
% |
20 |
% |
22 |
% |
24 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Operating income (loss) |
$ |
(544 |
) |
$ |
591 |
$ |
255 |
$ |
464 |
$ |
406 |
N/A |
|||||
Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X |
N/A |
22 |
% |
90 |
% |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|||||||||
Operating margin -- % of WW net sales |
(2.6 |
)% |
2.0 |
% |
1.1 |
% |
2.0 |
% |
1.6 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Operating income -- TTM |
$ |
97 |
$ |
178 |
$ |
287 |
$ |
765 |
$ |
1,715 |
N/A |
||||||
Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X |
(94 |
)% |
(79 |
)% |
(56 |
)% |
35 |
% |
N/A |
N/A |
|||||||
Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales |
0.1 |
% |
0.2 |
% |
0.3 |
% |
0.8 |
% |
1.7 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Net income (loss) |
$ |
(437 |
) |
$ |
214 |
$ |
(57 |
) |
$ |
92 |
$ |
79 |
N/A |
||||
Net income (loss) per diluted share |
$ |
(0.95 |
) |
$ |
0.45 |
$ |
(0.12 |
) |
$ |
0.19 |
$ |
0.17 |
N/A |
||||
Net income (loss) -- TTM |
$ |
(216 |
) |
$ |
(241 |
) |
$ |
(405 |
) |
$ |
(188 |
) |
$ |
328 |
N/A |
||
Net income (loss) per diluted share -- TTM |
$ |
(0.47 |
) |
$ |
(0.52 |
) |
$ |
(0.88 |
) |
$ |
(0.41 |
) |
$ |
0.69 |
N/A |
||
(1) |
“Free cash flow” is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less cash expenditures for purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development. |
(2) |
Average Total Assets minus Current Liabilities (excluding current portion of Long-Term Debt) over five quarter ends. |
(3) |
“Free cash flow less lease principal repayments” is defined as net cash provided by operating activities, less (i) purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, (ii) principal repayments of capital lease obligations, and (iii) principal repayments of finance lease obligations. Free cash flow less lease principal repayments approximates the actual payments of cash for our capital and finance leases. |
(4) |
“Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and capital acquired under capital leases” is defined as net cash provided by operating activities, less (i) purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, (ii) principal repayments of finance lease obligations, and (iii) property and equipment acquired under capital leases. In this measure, property and equipment acquired under capital leases is reflected as if these assets had been purchased for cash, which is not the case as these assets have been leased. |
Q3 2014 |
Q4 2014 |
Q1 2015 |
Q2 2015 |
Q3 2015 |
Y/Y %
Change
|
||||||||||||
Segments |
|||||||||||||||||
North America Segment: |
|||||||||||||||||
Net sales |
$ |
11,699 |
$ |
17,333 |
$ |
13,406 |
$ |
13,796 |
$ |
15,006 |
28 |
% |
|||||
Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
23 |
% |
21 |
% |
24 |
% |
26 |
% |
29 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Net sales -- TTM |
$ |
50,834 |
$ |
53,432 |
$ |
56,233 |
$ |
59,540 |
24 |
% |
|||||||
Operating income (loss) |
$ |
(60 |
) |
$ |
733 |
$ |
517 |
$ |
703 |
$ |
528 |
N/A |
|||||
Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
77 |
% |
111 |
% |
N/A |
N/A |
|||||||||||
Operating margin -- % of North America net sales |
(0.5 |
)% |
4.2 |
% |
3.9 |
% |
5.1 |
% |
3.5 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Operating income -- TTM |
$ |
1,292 |
$ |
1,520 |
$ |
1,893 |
$ |
2,480 |
N/A |
||||||||
Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales |
2.5 |
% |
2.8 |
% |
3.4 |
% |
4.2 |
% |
N/A |
||||||||
International Segment: |
|||||||||||||||||
Net sales |
$ |
7,711 |
$ |
10,575 |
$ |
7,745 |
$ |
7,565 |
$ |
8,267 |
7 |
% |
|||||
Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
13 |
% |
12 |
% |
14 |
% |
22 |
% |
24 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Net sales -- TTM |
$ |
33,510 |
$ |
33,371 |
$ |
33,598 |
$ |
34,154 |
3 |
% |
|||||||
Net sales -- TTM % of WW net sales |
38 |
% |
36 |
% |
35 |
% |
34 |
% |
N/A |
||||||||
Operating income (loss) |
$ |
(174 |
) |
$ |
65 |
$ |
(76 |
) |
$ |
(19 |
) |
$ |
(56 |
) |
(68 |
)% |
|
Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|||||||||||||
Operating margin -- % of International net sales |
(2.3 |
)% |
0.6 |
% |
(1.0 |
)% |
(0.2 |
)% |
(0.7 |
)% |
N/A |
||||||
Operating income (loss) -- TTM |
$ |
(144 |
) |
$ |
(188 |
) |
$ |
(205 |
) |
$ |
(86 |
) |
N/A |
||||
Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales |
(0.4 |
)% |
(0.6 |
)% |
(0.6 |
)% |
(0.3 |
)% |
N/A |
||||||||
AWS Segment: |
|||||||||||||||||
Net sales |
$ |
1,169 |
$ |
1,420 |
$ |
1,566 |
$ |
1,824 |
$ |
2,085 |
78 |
% |
|||||
Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
43 |
% |
47 |
% |
49 |
% |
81 |
% |
78 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Net sales -- TTM |
4,644 |
5,160 |
$ |
5,977 |
$ |
6,894 |
65 |
% |
|||||||||
Net sales -- TTM % of WW net sales |
5 |
% |
6 |
% |
6 |
% |
7 |
% |
N/A |
||||||||
Operating income |
$ |
98 |
$ |
240 |
$ |
265 |
$ |
391 |
$ |
521 |
432 |
% |
|||||
Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X |
(13 |
)% |
314 |
% |
353 |
% |
N/A |
||||||||||
Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales |
8.4 |
% |
16.9 |
% |
16.9 |
% |
21.4 |
% |
25.0 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Operating income -- TTM |
660 |
680 |
$ |
993 |
$ |
1,417 |
N/A |
||||||||||
Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales |
14.2 |
% |
13.2 |
% |
16.6 |
% |
20.6 |
% |
N/A |
||||||||
Consolidated Segments: |
|||||||||||||||||
Operating expenses (5) |
$ |
20,715 |
$ |
28,290 |
$ |
22,011 |
$ |
22,110 |
$ |
24,365 |
18 |
% |
|||||
Operating expenses -- TTM (5) |
$ |
83,599 |
$ |
87,180 |
$ |
89,951 |
$ |
93,126 |
$ |
96,777 |
16 |
% |
|||||
Operating income (loss) |
$ |
(136 |
) |
$ |
1,038 |
$ |
706 |
$ |
1,075 |
$ |
993 |
N/A |
|||||
Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X |
(151 |
)% |
22 |
% |
45 |
% |
168 |
% |
N/A |
N/A |
|||||||
Operating margin -- % of Consolidated net sales |
(0.7 |
)% |
3.5 |
% |
3.1 |
% |
4.6 |
% |
3.9 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Operating income -- TTM |
$ |
1,647 |
$ |
1,808 |
$ |
2,012 |
$ |
2,682 |
$ |
3,811 |
131 |
% |
|||||
Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X |
(12 |
)% |
(10 |
)% |
(1 |
)% |
34 |
% |
134 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Operating margin -- TTM % of Consolidated net sales |
1.9 |
% |
2.0 |
% |
2.2 |
% |
2.8 |
% |
3.8 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
(5) |
Represents cost of sales, fulfillment, marketing, technology and content, and general and administrative operating expenses, excluding stock-based compensation. |
Q3 2014 |
Q4 2014 |
Q1 2015 |
Q2 2015 |
Q3 2015 |
Y/Y %
Change
|
||||||||||||
Supplemental |
|||||||||||||||||
Supplemental North America Segment Net Sales: |
|||||||||||||||||
Media |
$ |
2,734 |
$ |
3,544 |
$ |
2,969 |
$ |
2,620 |
$ |
2,963 |
8 |
% |
|||||
Media -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
5 |
% |
1 |
% |
5 |
% |
7 |
% |
9 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Media -- TTM |
$ |
11,536 |
$ |
11,567 |
$ |
11,711 |
$ |
11,867 |
$ |
12,096 |
5 |
% |
|||||
Electronics and other general merchandise |
$ |
8,793 |
$ |
13,529 |
$ |
10,250 |
$ |
10,987 |
$ |
11,840 |
35 |
% |
|||||
Electronics and other general merchandise -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
31 |
% |
27 |
% |
31 |
% |
32 |
% |
35 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM |
$ |
35,636 |
$ |
38,517 |
$ |
40,938 |
$ |
43,559 |
$ |
46,606 |
31 |
% |
|||||
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM % of North America net sales |
74 |
% |
76 |
% |
77 |
% |
77 |
% |
78 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Other |
$ |
172 |
$ |
260 |
$ |
187 |
$ |
189 |
$ |
203 |
18 |
% |
|||||
Supplemental International Segment Net Sales: |
|||||||||||||||||
Media |
$ |
2,510 |
$ |
3,406 |
$ |
2,320 |
$ |
2,094 |
$ |
2,320 |
(8 |
)% |
|||||
Media -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
3 |
% |
(1 |
)% |
2 |
% |
3 |
% |
6 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Media -- TTM |
$ |
11,246 |
$ |
10,938 |
$ |
10,615 |
$ |
10,329 |
$ |
10,140 |
(10 |
)% |
|||||
Electronics and other general merchandise |
$ |
5,160 |
$ |
7,109 |
$ |
5,378 |
$ |
5,425 |
$ |
5,901 |
14 |
% |
|||||
Electronics and other general merchandise -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X |
19 |
% |
19 |
% |
21 |
% |
31 |
% |
32 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM |
$ |
21,737 |
$ |
22,369 |
$ |
22,559 |
$ |
23,072 |
$ |
23,814 |
10 |
% |
|||||
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM % of International net sales |
65 |
% |
67 |
% |
68 |
% |
69 |
% |
70 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Other |
$ |
41 |
$ |
60 |
$ |
47 |
$ |
46 |
$ |
46 |
10 |
% |
|||||
Balance Sheet |
|||||||||||||||||
Cash and marketable securities -- ending |
$ |
6,883 |
$ |
17,416 |
$ |
13,781 |
$ |
14,001 |
$ |
14,428 |
110 |
% |
|||||
Inventory, net -- ending |
$ |
7,316 |
$ |
8,299 |
$ |
7,369 |
$ |
7,470 |
$ |
8,981 |
23 |
% |
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Inventory turnover, average -- TTM |
8.9 |
8.6 |
8.8 |
8.9 |
8.6 |
(3 |
)% |
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Property and equipment, net -- ending |
$ |
15,702 |
$ |
16,967 |
$ |
17,736 |
$ |
19,479 |
$ |
20,636 |
31 |
% |
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Accounts payable -- ending |
$ |
11,811 |
$ |
16,459 |
$ |
11,917 |
$ |
12,391 |
$ |
14,437 |
22 |
% |
|||||
Accounts payable days -- ending |
74 |
73 |
70 |
74 |
79 |
7 |
% |
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Other |
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WW shipping revenue |
$ |
1,048 |
$ |
1,701 |
$ |
1,299 |
$ |
1,399 |
$ |
1,494 |
43 |
% |
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WW shipping revenue -- % of net sales (6) |
5.4 |
% |
6.1 |
% |
6.1 |
% |
6.6 |
% |
6.4 |
% |
N/A |
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WW shipping costs |
$ |
2,020 |
$ |
3,049 |
$ |
2,309 |
$ |
2,340 |
$ |
2,720 |
35 |
% |
|||||
WW shipping costs -- % of net sales (6) |
10.4 |
% |
10.9 |
% |
10.9 |
% |
11.0 |
% |
11.7 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
WW net shipping costs |
$ |
972 |
$ |
1,348 |
$ |
1,010 |
$ |
941 |
$ |
1,226 |
26 |
% |
|||||
WW net shipping costs -- % of net sales (6) |
5.0 |
% |
4.8 |
% |
4.8 |
% |
4.4 |
% |
5.3 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
WW paid units -- Y/Y growth |
21 |
% |
20 |
% |
20 |
% |
22 |
% |
26 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
WW seller unit mix -- % of WW paid units |
42 |
% |
43 |
% |
44 |
% |
45 |
% |
46 |
% |
N/A |
||||||
Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) |
149,500 |
154,100 |
165,000 |
183,100 |
222,400 |
49 |
% |
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(6) |
Includes North America and International segment net sales. |
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References to customers mean customer accounts, which are unique e-mail addresses, established either when a customer places an order or when a customer orders from other sellers on our websites. Customer accounts exclude certain customers, including customers associated with certain of our acquisitions, Amazon Payments customers, AWS customers, and the customers of select companies with whom we have a technology alliance or marketing and promotional relationship. Customers are considered active when they have placed an order during the preceding twelve-month period. |
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References to sellers means seller accounts, which are established when a seller receives an order from a customer account. Sellers are considered active when they have received an order from a customer during the preceding twelve-month period. |
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References to AWS customers mean unique AWS customer accounts, which are unique e-mail addresses that are eligible to use AWS services. This includes AWS accounts in the AWS free tier. Multiple users accessing AWS services via one account are counted as a single account. Customers are considered active when they have had AWS usage activity during the preceding one-month period. |
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References to units mean physical and digital units sold (net of returns and cancellations) by us and sellers at Amazon domains worldwide — for example www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, www.amazon.it, www.amazon.es, www.amazon.com.br, www.amazon.in, www.amazon.com.mx, www.amazon.com.au, www.amazon.nl, www.diapers.com, www.shopbop.com and www.zappos.com — as well as Amazon-owned items sold through non-Amazon domains. Units sold are paid units and do not include units associated with AWS, certain acquisitions, rental businesses, or advertising businesses, or Amazon gift cards. |
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A company that is hiring robots to do their work tells you how effective their growth is. Amazon now has over 30,000 robots working in their fulfillment centers. Amazon is at the cutting edge of automation by lowering work force on the warehouse floors and also decreasing the risk of injury. Stock rose significantly post earnings but with stock so high, profit taking is taking place. On the same note, many investors thinks this company's stock has sky rocketed but think again and look at past earnings. A smart chart trader waits for healthy pullback and keep on trading the trend until its broken. The longer term growth of this company will keep depending on the fantastic gains its been showing year over year.
Amazon took everyone by surprise after delivering an unexpected profit for the quarter. That's two consecutive quarters with a profit. For a company known for growing its business at a loss that came as quite a shock. Naturally, the stock went through the roof.
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The reason why Amazon is finally in the black is the fact that the cloud is basically a cash cow. The e-commerce giant’s A.W.S. segment brought in more than $500 in operating income. Without this outstanding performance, Amazon’s results might have let investors down.
Cloud is doing wonders not only for Amazon but also for its competitors (Microsoft for instance). Amazon’s competitive advantage, however, is that Bezos is a smart man and knows how to innovate faster than others.
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