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Exhibit


Exhibit 99.1
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AMAZON.COM ANNOUNCES FOURTH QUARTER SALES UP 22% TO $43.7 BILLION
SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) February 2, 2017—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2016.
Operating cash flow increased 38% to $16.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Free cash flow increased to $9.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $7.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Free cash flow less lease principal repayments increased to $5.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $4.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases increased to $3.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $2.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015.
Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 497 million on December 31, 2016, compared with 490 million one year ago.
Fourth Quarter 2016
Net sales increased 22% to $43.7 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $35.7 billion in fourth quarter 2015. Excluding the $558 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 24% compared with fourth quarter 2015.
Operating income increased 13% to $1.3 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $1.1 billion in fourth quarter 2015.
Net income was $749 million in the fourth quarter, or $1.54 per diluted share, compared with net income of $482 million, or $1.00 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2015.

Full Year 2016
Net sales increased 27% to $136.0 billion, compared with $107.0 billion in 2015. Excluding the $550 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, net sales increased 28% compared with 2015.
Operating income was $4.2 billion, compared with operating income of $2.2 billion in 2015.
Net income was $2.4 billion, or $4.90 per diluted share, compared with net income of $596 million, or $1.25 per diluted share, in 2015.

“Our Prime team’s customer obsession kept them busy in 2016,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “Prime members can now choose from over 50 million items with free two-day shipping — up 73% since 2015. Prime Video is now available in more than 200 countries and territories. Prime Now added 18 new cities, which means millions more members now get one and two hour delivery. New benefits were also added to the list, like Prime Reading, Audible Channels for Prime, Twitch Prime and more. And customers noticed — tens of millions of new paid members joined the program in just this past year.”
Highlights
Amazon announced that it will create more than 100,000 new, full-time, full-benefit jobs in the U.S. over the next 18 months, and will include positions across the country for all types of experience, education, and skill levels.
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) delivered more than two billion units on behalf of sellers in 2016, and the number of active sellers using FBA grew more than 70%. Using the FBA service, Amazon sellers from more than 130 countries fulfilled orders to customers in 185 countries.
In 2016, there were over 100,000 sellers with sales of more than $100,000 selling on Amazon.
In the fourth quarter, FBA units represented more than 55% of total third-party units.
Amazon introduced Amazon Go in Seattle, a new kind of store with no checkout required. With Just Walk Out Shopping, customers simply take the products they want, and go. Our checkout-free shopping experience is made




possible by the same types of technologies used in self-driving cars: computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning.
In 2016, the U.S. Prime program added Prime Reading, Twitch Prime, Audible Channels for Prime, and the Prime Photo Family Vault as new Prime-exclusive digital benefits.
Prime members engaged with the Prime digital benefits at a voracious rate, more than doubling the number of video, music, and reading activities compared to 2015.
Amazon introduced Prime Video to customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe, giving customers access to unlimited streaming of Amazon’s popular and award-winning Original Series, including The Grand Tour, The Man in the High Castle, and Transparent, as well as popular Hollywood movies and TV shows. Prime Video is now automatically available at no additional cost to Amazon Prime members in Belgium, Canada, France, India, Italy, and Spain.
Prime Video is now available on Amazon.in, offering Prime members in India the largest selection of new release Bollywood and regional Indian blockbusters, Hollywood movies, day-after-broadcast U.S. TV shows, kids’ programming, and award-winning Amazon Original Series. Amazon also announced the start of production of new Indian Amazon Original Series featuring top Indian talent and filmmakers, which will be available exclusively to Prime members in India.
The debut episode of The Grand Tour was the biggest show premiere ever on Prime Video, with millions of Prime members streaming the first episode in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria, and Japan over the opening weekend.
Amazon Studios released Manchester by the Sea, The Salesman, Paterson, and Gimme Danger in theaters nationwide.
Amazon Studios was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture (Manchester by the Sea), Best Director (Kenneth Lonergan), and Best Foreign Language Film (The Salesman).
Amazon Studios was nominated for 11 Golden Globes and received two awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea, and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Billy Bob Thornton in Goliath.
Amazon Music Unlimited expanded to Austria, Germany, and the U.K. with over 40 million songs, hand-curated playlists, and personalized stations. Prime members in those countries can access Amazon Music Unlimited at a breakthrough price (€7.99/£7.99 per month), while the exclusive “for Echo” subscription plan is available to all customers for only €3.99/£3.99 per month. All customers listening to Amazon Music Unlimited on Echo, Echo Dot, or Amazon Tap can access their favorite music with new natural language voice controls powered by Alexa.
Alexa-enabled devices were the top-selling products across all categories on Amazon.com this holiday season. Customers purchased and gifted a record-setting number of devices from the Amazon Echo family with sales up over 9x compared to last holiday season.
Customers purchased millions of Fire tablets this holiday season. Additionally, Amazon brought Alexa to Fire HD 10, Fire HD 8, and other Fire tablets via a free software update, making it easy for customers to enjoy endless entertainment at the touch of a button.
Amazon sold millions of Fire TV devices this holiday season. The new Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote has received over 25,000 5-star customer reviews in just three months, and Amazon released a free, over-the-air software update delivering a new user interface that makes finding what to watch next even easier and more enjoyable.
Third-party developers released more than 4,000 new Alexa Skills since October, including ADT, AT&T, CBS, Pizza Hut, and The Wall Street Journal. Tens of thousands of developers are building skills for Alexa.
Tens of thousands of developers are using the Alexa Voice Service to integrate Alexa into their products, including Dish DVRs, Ford and Volkswagen vehicles, GE C Lamp, Huawei Mate 9, LG Smart Instaview fridge, and Whirlpool appliances.
Amazon selected 12 teams to participate in the inaugural Alexa Prize, an annual university competition dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational artificial intelligence. The teams are building socialbots on Alexa that will converse with humans on popular topics and news events, and the winner will be announced at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2017.
Dash Button is now available in a number of countries throughout Europe and Japan. Prime members can now order hundreds of products from dozens of popular brands with the press of a button.
Amazon launched Prime in China, offering Prime members unlimited, free cross-border shipping on millions of authentic international products from the Amazon Global Store and unlimited, free shipping with no minimum purchase on more than nine million domestic items.
Amazon Launchpad expanded to Canada, India, and Japan and has worked with over 100 leading venture capital firms, startup accelerators, and crowd-funding platforms to help startups launch products in China, France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.
Amazon and Chase introduced the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card offering Prime members 5% back at Amazon.com, 2% back at restaurants, gas stations, and drugstores, and 1% back on every other purchase.




Amazon Prime Air, the service that uses drones to safely deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or less, made its first delivery in December. The delivery marks the start of a limited, private trial for customers in a select area of the U.K.
Amazon announced six renewable energy projects during the quarter, including Amazon Wind Farm U.S. Central 2 in Ohio and five new solar farms across the Commonwealth of Virginia, which support the development of an additional 369 megawatts of renewable energy.
With millions of active customers, AWS continues to grow, and enterprise customers have committed to migrating tens of thousands of applications to AWS, including: Workday selected AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider for customer production workloads; Capital One selected AWS as its predominant cloud infrastructure provider; shipping carrier Matson has closed all of its data centers, completing an “all-in” migration to AWS; McDonald’s is transforming its digital-facing properties with AWS; the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is going “all-in” on AWS for their data analytics platform, which analyzes up to 75 billion market events daily; and Enel has already moved more than 5,000 servers to AWS as it transforms its technology infrastructure on AWS.
AWS hosted re:Invent 2016, its fifth annual customer and partner conference, with over 30,000 attendees and over 50,000 streaming participants.
AWS accelerated its infrastructure expansion in 2016, opening eleven Availability Zones across five geographic regions in the U.S., Korea, India, and most recently, Canada and the U.K. AWS now operates 42 Availability Zones across 16 infrastructure regions globally and plans to open an additional five Availability Zones in two regions (France and a second region in China) in the coming months.
AWS announced that customers migrated more than 18,000 databases using the AWS Database Migration Service in 2016. 
AWS continues to accelerate its pace of innovation with the release of 308 significant new services and features in the fourth quarter, bringing the total number of launches in 2016 to 1,017. 
AWS announced three Artificial Intelligence (AI) services that make it easy for any developer to build apps that can understand natural language, turn text into lifelike speech, have conversations using voice or text, analyze images and recognize faces, objects, and scenes. Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition are based on the same proven, highly scalable AI technology built by the thousands of deep learning and machine learning experts across Amazon. AWS also announced a significant investment in MXNet, an open source distributed deep learning framework. AWS will contribute code and improve the MXNet developer experience to enable machine learning scientists to build scalable deep learning models that can significantly reduce the training time for their applications.
AWS announced Amazon Athena, a pay-as-you-go, interactive query service that makes it easy for customers to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can point Amazon Athena at their data stored in Amazon S3 and begin using standard SQL to run queries and get results in seconds. With Amazon Athena there are no clusters to manage and tune, no infrastructure to setup or manage, and customers pay only for the queries they run.
AWS announced AWS Greengrass and AWS Snowball Edge, hybrid services that help customers extend the power of the AWS Cloud to connected devices and other environments that exist beyond the network edge.
AWS announced AWS Snowmobile, an Exabyte-scale data transfer service that customers can use to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. Each Snowmobile is a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container pulled by a semi-trailer truck that is capable of moving up to 100 PB of data — from video libraries and image repositories to entire data centers — to the AWS Cloud in as little as a few weeks.
AWS announced seven new compute services and capabilities to support an even wider range of applications, introducing the next generations of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Memory Optimized, Compute Optimized, and High input/output (I/O) instances, adding a way for customers to get started quickly with virtual private servers (VPS) through Amazon Lightsail, and delivering hardware acceleration with Elastic GPUs and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-enabled F1 instances.
AWS announced the expansion of Amazon Aurora to include full PostgreSQL compatibility. With Amazon Aurora’s new PostgreSQL support, customers can get up to several times better performance than the typical PostgreSQL database and take advantage of the scalability, durability, and security capabilities of Amazon Aurora — all for one-tenth the cost of commercial grade databases.
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon QuickSight, a very fast, cloud-powered business analytics 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 one-tenth the cost of traditional solutions.

Financial Guidance
The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com’s expectations as of February 2, 2017, and are subject to substantial uncertainty. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as




fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, and cloud services, and the various factors detailed below.
First Quarter 2017 Guidance
Net sales are expected to be between $33.25 billion and $35.75 billion, or to grow between 14% and 23% compared with first quarter 2016. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately $730 million or 250 basis points from foreign exchange rates.
Operating income is expected to be between $250 million and $900 million, compared with $1.1 billion in first quarter 2016.
This guidance assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, investments, restructurings, or legal settlements are concluded.

A conference call will be webcast live today at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET, and will be available for at least three months at www.amazon.com/ir. This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company’s financial and operating results.

These forward-looking statements are inherently difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, in addition to the factors discussed above, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains, and develops commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, payments risks, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services, and technologies, system interruptions, government regulation and taxation, and fraud. In addition, the current global economic climate amplifies many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

Our investor relations website is www.amazon.com/ir and we encourage investors to use it as a way of easily finding information about us. We promptly make available on this website, free of charge, the reports that we file or furnish with the SEC, corporate governance information (including our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics), and select press releases and social media postings, which may contain material information about us, and you may subscribe to be notified of new information posted to this site.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about.






AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in millions)

 
  
Three Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
Twelve Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
2015
 
2016
 
2015
 
2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(unaudited)
 
 
 
 
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD
$
10,709

 
$
13,656

 
$
14,557

 
$
15,890

OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net income
482

 
749

 
596

 
2,371

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operating activities:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Depreciation of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, and other amortization, including capitalized content costs
1,752

 
2,297

 
6,281

 
8,116

Stock-based compensation
606

 
887

 
2,119

 
2,975

Other operating expense, net
35

 
31

 
155

 
160

Other expense (income), net
80

 
21

 
250

 
(20
)
Deferred income taxes
190

 
(282
)
 
81

 
(246
)
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation
93

 
(336
)
 
(119
)
 
(829
)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Inventories
(1,343
)
 
(1,043
)
 
(2,187
)
 
(1,426
)
Accounts receivable, net and other
(1,178
)
 
(1,924
)
 
(1,755
)
 
(3,367
)
Accounts payable
6,140

 
7,283

 
4,294

 
5,030

Accrued expenses and other
1,836

 
2,254

 
913

 
1,724

Additions to unearned revenue
2,422

 
3,975

 
7,401

 
11,931

Amortization of previously unearned revenue
(2,303
)
 
(3,261
)
 
(6,109
)
 
(9,976
)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
8,812

 
10,651

 
11,920

 
16,443

INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, net
(1,309
)
 
(2,005
)
 
(4,589
)
 
(6,737
)
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other
(317
)
 
(3
)
 
(795
)
 
(116
)
Sales and maturities of marketable securities
1,135

 
1,233

 
3,025

 
4,733

Purchases of marketable securities
(1,359
)
 
(3,399
)
 
(4,091
)
 
(7,756
)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
(1,850
)
 
(4,174
)
 
(6,450
)
 
(9,876
)
FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation
(93
)
 
336

 
119

 
829

Proceeds from long-term debt and other
93

 
537

 
353

 
621

Repayments of long-term debt and other
(940
)
 
(84
)
 
(1,652
)
 
(354
)
Principal repayments of capital lease obligations
(724
)
 
(1,004
)
 
(2,462
)
 
(3,860
)
Principal repayments of finance lease obligations
(26
)
 
(41
)
 
(121
)
 
(147
)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
(1,690
)
 
(256
)
 
(3,763
)
 
(2,911
)
Foreign currency effect on cash and cash equivalents
(91
)
 
(543
)
 
(374
)
 
(212
)
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
5,181

 
5,678

 
1,333

 
3,444

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD
$
15,890

 
$
19,334

 
$
15,890

 
$
19,334

SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cash paid for interest on long-term debt
$
148

 
$
144

 
$
325

 
$
290

Cash paid for interest on capital and finance lease obligations
44

 
61

 
153

 
206

Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds
73

 
95

 
273

 
412

Property and equipment acquired under capital leases
1,332

 
2,038

 
4,717

 
5,704

Property and equipment acquired under build-to-suit leases
163

 
416

 
544

 
1,209





AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in millions, except per share data)

  
Three Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
Twelve Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
2015
 
2016
 
2015
 
2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(unaudited)
 
 
 
 
Net product sales
$
26,618

 
$
30,629

 
$
79,268

 
$
94,665

Net service sales
9,129

 
13,112

 
27,738

 
41,322

Total net sales
35,747

 
43,741

 
107,006

 
135,987

Operating expenses:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cost of sales
24,341

 
28,958

 
71,651

 
88,265

Fulfillment
4,546

 
5,719

 
13,410

 
17,619

Marketing
1,755

 
2,513

 
5,254

 
7,233

Technology and content
3,571

 
4,545

 
12,540

 
16,085

General and administrative
390

 
717

 
1,747

 
2,432

Other operating expense, net
36

 
34

 
171

 
167

Total operating expenses
34,639

 
42,486

 
104,773

 
131,801

Operating income
1,108

 
1,255

 
2,233

 
4,186

Interest income
13

 
30

 
50

 
100

Interest expense
(115
)
 
(133
)
 
(459
)
 
(484
)
Other income (expense), net
(68
)
 
14

 
(256
)
 
90

Total non-operating income (expense)
(170
)
 
(89
)
 
(665
)
 
(294
)
Income before income taxes
938

 
1,166

 
1,568

 
3,892

Provision for income taxes
(453
)
 
(414
)
 
(950
)
 
(1,425
)
Equity-method investment activity, net of tax
(3
)
 
(3
)
 
(22
)
 
(96
)
Net income
$
482

 
$
749

 
$
596

 
$
2,371

Basic earnings per share
$
1.03

 
$
1.57

 
$
1.28

 
$
5.01

Diluted earnings per share
$
1.00

 
$
1.54

 
$
1.25

 
$
4.90

Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per share:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Basic
470

 
476

 
467

 
474

Diluted
481

 
486

 
477

 
484






AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)
(in millions)

 
  
Three Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
Twelve Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
2015
 
2016
 
2015
 
2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(unaudited)
 
 
 
 
Net income
$
482

 
$
749

 
$
596

 
$
2,371

Other comprehensive income (loss):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $7, $(68), $10, and $(49)
(40
)
 
(412
)
 
(210
)
 
(279
)
Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $1, $22, $(5), and $(12)
(9
)
 
(54
)
 
(7
)
 
9

Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in “Other income (expense), net,” net of tax of $0, $0, $0, and $0
1

 
3

 
5

 
8

Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities
(8
)
 
(51
)
 
(2
)
 
17

Total other comprehensive income (loss)
(48
)
 
(463
)
 
(212
)
 
(262
)
Comprehensive income (loss)
$
434

 
$
286

 
$
384

 
$
2,109






AMAZON.COM, INC.
Segment Information
(in millions)
 
  
Three Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
Twelve Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
2015
 
2016
 
2015
 
2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(unaudited)
 
 
 
 
North America
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net sales
$
21,501

 
$
26,240

 
$
63,708

 
$
79,785

Operating expenses
20,498

 
24,916

 
60,957

 
75,686

Operating income before stock-based compensation and other
1,003

 
1,324

 
2,751

 
4,099

Stock-based compensation and other
367

 
508

 
1,326

 
1,738

Operating income
$
636

 
$
816

 
$
1,425

 
$
2,361

International
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net sales
$
11,841

 
$
13,965

 
$
35,418

 
$
43,983

Operating expenses
11,781

 
14,219

 
35,509

 
44,460

Operating income (loss) before stock-based compensation and other
60

 
(254
)
 
(91
)
 
(477
)
Stock-based compensation and other
168

 
233

 
608

 
806

Operating income (loss)
$
(108
)
 
$
(487
)
 
$
(699
)
 
$
(1,283
)
AWS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net sales
$
2,405

 
$
3,536

 
$
7,880

 
$
12,219

Operating expenses
1,718

 
2,430

 
6,017

 
8,513

Operating income before stock-based compensation and other
687

 
1,106

 
1,863

 
3,706

Stock-based compensation and other
107

 
180

 
356

 
598

Operating income
$
580

 
$
926

 
$
1,507

 
$
3,108

Consolidated
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Net sales
$
35,747

 
$
43,741

 
$
107,006

 
$
135,987

Operating expenses
33,997

 
41,565

 
102,483

 
128,659

Operating income before stock-based compensation and other
1,750

 
2,176

 
4,523

 
7,328

Stock-based compensation and other
642

 
921

 
2,290

 
3,142

Operating income
1,108

 
1,255

 
2,233

 
4,186

Total non-operating income (expense)
(170
)
 
(89
)
 
(665
)
 
(294
)
Provision for income taxes
(453
)
 
(414
)
 
(950
)
 
(1,425
)
Equity-method investment activity, net of tax
(3
)
 
(3
)
 
(22
)
 
(96
)
Net income
$
482

 
$
749

 
$
596

 
$
2,371

Segment Highlights:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Y/Y net sales growth:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
North America
24
%
 
22
%
 
25
%
 
25
%
International
12

 
18

 
6

 
24

AWS
69

 
47

 
70

 
55

Consolidated
22

 
22

 
20

 
27

Net sales mix:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
North America
60
%
 
60
%
 
60
%
 
59
%
International
33

 
32

 
33

 
32

AWS
7

 
8

 
7

 
9

Consolidated
100
%
 
100
%
 
100
%
 
100
%





AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Net Sales Information
(in millions)
  
Three Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
Twelve Months Ended 
 December 31,
 
2015
 
2016
 
2015
 
2016
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(unaudited)
 
 
 
 
Net Sales:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
North America
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Media
$
3,931

 
$
4,208

 
$
12,483

 
$
13,580

Electronics and other general merchandise
17,325

 
21,590

 
50,401

 
64,887

Other (1)
245

 
442

 
824

 
1,318

Total North America
$
21,501

 
$
26,240

 
$
63,708

 
$
79,785

International
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Media
$
3,292

 
$
3,377

 
$
10,026

 
$
10,631

Electronics and other general merchandise
8,491

 
10,514

 
25,196

 
33,107

Other (1)
58

 
74

 
196

 
245

Total International
$
11,841

 
$
13,965

 
$
35,418

 
$
43,983

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Year-over-year Percentage Growth:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
North America
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Media
11
 %
 
7
%
 
8
 %
 
9
%
Electronics and other general merchandise
28

 
25

 
31

 
29

Other
(6
)
 
81

 
10

 
60

Total North America
24

 
22

 
25

 
25

International
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Media
(3
)%
 
3
%
 
(8
)%
 
6
%
Electronics and other general merchandise
19

 
24

 
13

 
31

Other
(3
)
 
26

 
(3
)
 
25

Total International
12

 
18

 
6

 
24

Year-over-year Percentage Growth, excluding the effect of foreign exchange rates:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
North America
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Media
12
 %
 
7
%
 
8
 %
 
9
%
Electronics and other general merchandise
28

 
25

 
31

 
29

Other
(6
)
 
81

 
10

 
60

Total North America
24

 
22

 
26

 
25

International
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Media
5
 %
 
7
%
 
4
 %
 
7
%
Electronics and other general merchandise
31

 
28

 
29

 
33

Other
5

 
36

 
10

 
30

Total International
22

 
23

 
21

 
26

______________________________
(1)
Includes sales from non-retail activities, such as certain advertising services and our co-branded credit card agreements.




AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in millions, except per share data)
 
 
December 31, 2015
 
December 31, 2016
ASSETS
 
 
 
Current assets:
 
 
 
Cash and cash equivalents
$
15,890

 
$
19,334

Marketable securities
3,918

 
6,647

Inventories
10,243

 
11,461

Accounts receivable, net and other
5,654

 
8,339

Total current assets
35,705

 
45,781

Property and equipment, net
21,838

 
29,114

Goodwill
3,759

 
3,784

Other assets
3,445

 
4,723

Total assets
$
64,747

 
$
83,402

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
 
 
 
Current liabilities:
 
 
 
Accounts payable
$
20,397

 
$
25,309

Accrued expenses and other
10,372

 
13,739

Unearned revenue
3,118

 
4,768

Total current liabilities
33,887

 
43,816

Long-term debt
8,227

 
7,694

Other long-term liabilities
9,249

 
12,607

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 — 494 and 500
 
 
 
Outstanding shares — 471 and 477
5

 
5

Treasury stock, at cost
(1,837
)
 
(1,837
)
Additional paid-in capital
13,394

 
17,186

Accumulated other comprehensive loss
(723
)
 
(985
)
Retained earnings
2,545

 
4,916

Total stockholders’ equity
13,384

 
19,285

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
$
64,747

 
$
83,402






AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions, except per share data)
(unaudited)
 
Q3 2015
Q4 2015
Q1 2016
Q2 2016
Q3 2016
Q4 2016
Y/Y %
Change
Cash Flows and Shares
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM)
$
9,823

$
11,920

$
11,258

$
12,726

$
14,603

$
16,443

38
%
Operating cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth
72
%
74
%
44
%
42
%
49
%
38
%
N/A

Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, net -- TTM
$
4,424

$
4,589

$
4,897

$
5,395

$
6,040

$
6,737

47
%
Principal repayments of capital lease obligations -- TTM
$
2,144

$
2,462

$
2,761

$
3,298

$
3,579

$
3,860

57
%
Principal repayments of finance lease obligations -- TTM
$
163

$
121

$
111

$
108

$
131

$
147

21
%
Property and equipment acquired under capital leases -- TTM
$
4,599

$
4,717

$
4,638

$
4,676

$
4,998

$
5,704

21
%
Free cash flow -- TTM (1)
$
5,399

$
7,331

$
6,361

$
7,331

$
8,563

$
9,706

32
%
Free cash flow less lease principal repayments -- TTM (2)
$
3,092

$
4,748

$
3,489

$
3,925

$
4,853

$
5,699

20
%
Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases -- TTM (3)
$
637

$
2,493

$
1,612

$
2,547

$
3,434

$
3,855

55
%
Invested capital (4)
$
28,860

$
31,393

$
32,824

$
34,695

$
36,722

$
39,126

25
%
Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding
489

490

490

495

496

497

1
%
Common shares outstanding
469

471

472

474

475

477

1
%
Stock-based awards outstanding
20

19

18

21

21

20

4
%
Stock-based awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding
4.3
%
4.1
%
3.9
%
4.4
%
4.4
%
4.2
%
N/A

Results of Operations
 
 
 
 

 
 
Worldwide (WW) net sales
$
25,358

$
35,747

$
29,128

$
30,404

$
32,714

$
43,741

22
%
WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
30
%
26
%
29
%
30
%
29
%
24
%
N/A

WW net sales -- TTM
$
100,588

$
107,006

$
113,418

$
120,637

$
127,993

$
135,987

27
%
WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
24
%
26
%
28
%
29
%
28
%
28
%
N/A

Operating income
$
406

$
1,108

$
1,071

$
1,285

$
575

$
1,255

13
%
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable)
$
25

$
20

$
50

$
45

$
8

$
7

N/A

Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
N/A

84
%
300
%
168
%
40
%
13
%
N/A

Operating margin -- % of WW net sales
1.6
%
3.1
%
3.7
%
4.2
%
1.8
%
2.9
%
N/A

Operating income -- TTM
$
1,715

$
2,233

$
3,049

$
3,871

$
4,040

$
4,186

87
%
Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
N/A

N/A

933
%
388
%
128
%
83
%
N/A

Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales
1.7
%
2.1
%
2.7
%
3.2
%
3.2
%
3.1
%
N/A

Net income
$
79

$
482

$
513

$
857

$
252

$
749

55
%
Net income per diluted share
$
0.17

$
1.00

$
1.07

$
1.78

$
0.52

$
1.54

54
%
Net income -- TTM
$
328

$
596

$
1,166

$
1,931

$
2,105

$
2,371

298
%
Net income per diluted share -- TTM
$
0.69

$
1.25

$
2.43

$
4.02

$
4.38

$
4.90

292
%
______________________________
(1)
Free cash flow is cash flow from operations reduced by “Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, net,” which is included in cash flow from investing activities.
(2)
Free cash flow less lease principal repayments is free cash flow reduced by “Principal repayments of capital lease obligations,” and “Principal repayments of finance lease obligations,” which are included in cash flow from financing activities.
(3)
Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases is free cash flow reduced by “Principal repayments of finance lease obligations,” which are included in cash flow from financing activities, and 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 with cash, which is not the case as these assets have been leased.
(4)
Average Total Assets minus Current Liabilities (excluding current portion of Long-Term Debt and current portion of capital lease obligations and finance lease obligations) over five quarter ends.







AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions)
(unaudited)
 
Q3 2015
Q4 2015
Q1 2016
Q2 2016
Q3 2016
Q4 2016
Y/Y %
Change
Segments
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
North America Segment:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Net sales
$
15,006

$
21,501

$
16,996

$
17,674

$
18,874

$
26,240

22
%
  Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
29
 %
24
 %
27
 %
28
 %
26
 %
22
 %
N/A

  Net sales -- TTM
$
59,540

$
63,708

$
67,299

$
71,176

$
75,045

$
79,785

25
%
  Operating income before stock-based compensation and other:
 
 
 
 


 
 
Operating income
$
528

$
1,003

$
924

$
1,157

$
694

$
1,324

32
%
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
N/A

36
 %
78
 %
64
 %
30
 %
30
 %
N/A

Operating margin -- % of North America net sales
3.5
 %
4.7
 %
5.4
 %
6.6
 %
3.7
 %
5.0
 %
N/A

Operating income -- TTM
$
2,480

$
2,751

$
3,157

$
3,611

$
3,778

$
4,099

49
%
Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales
4.2
 %
4.3
 %
4.7
 %
5.1
 %
5.0
 %
5.1
 %
N/A

  Operating Income:
 
 
 
 


 
 
Operating income
$
186

$
636

$
588

$
702

$
255

$
816

28
%
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable)
$
11

$
6

$
5

$
5

$
6

$
11

N/A

Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
 

129
 %
100
 %
34
 %
26
 %
N/A

Operating margin -- % of North America net sales
1.2
 %
3.0
 %
3.5
 %
4.0
 %
1.3
 %
3.1
 %
N/A

Operating income -- TTM


$
1,425

$
1,759

$
2,113

$
2,182

$
2,361

66
%
Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales

2.2
 %
2.6
 %
3.0
 %
2.9
 %
3.0
 %
N/A

International Segment:
 
 
 
 

 
 
  Net sales
$
8,267

$
11,841

$
9,566

$
9,844

$
10,609

$
13,965

18
%
  Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
24
 %
22
 %
26
 %
28
 %
28
 %
23
 %
N/A

  Net sales -- TTM
$
34,154

$
35,418

$
37,239

$
39,518

$
41,860

$
43,983

24
%
  Operating income (loss) before stock-based compensation and other:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Operating income (loss)
$
(56
)
$
60

$
20

$
88

$
(332
)
$
(254
)
N/A

Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X
N/A

65
 %
N/A

N/A

539
 %
N/A

N/A

Operating margin -- % of International net sales
(0.7
)%
0.5
 %
0.2
 %
0.9
 %
(3.1
)%
(1.8
)%
N/A

Operating income (loss) -- TTM
$
(86
)
$
(91
)
$
6

$
113

$
(163
)
$
(477
)
426
%
Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales
(0.3
)%
(0.3
)%
 %
0.3
 %
(0.4
)%
(1.1
)%
N/A

  Operating income (loss):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Operating income (loss)
$
(208
)
$
(108
)
$
(121
)
$
(135
)
$
(541
)
$
(487
)
349
%
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable)
$
(64
)
$
(47
)
$
21

$
40

$
22

$
5

N/A

Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X
 


(27
)%
(8
)%
171
 %
354
 %
N/A

Operating margin -- % of International net sales
(2.5
)%
(0.9
)%
(1.3
)%
(1.4
)%
(5.1
)%
(3.5
)%
N/A

Operating income (loss) -- TTM


$
(699
)
$
(626
)
$
(571
)
$
(905
)
$
(1,283
)
83
%
Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales

(2.0
)%
(1.7
)%
(1.4
)%
(2.2
)%
(2.9
)%
N/A






AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions)
(unaudited)
 
Q3 2015
Q4 2015
Q1 2016
Q2 2016
Q3 2016
Q4 2016
Y/Y %
Change
Segments (continued)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
AWS Segment:
 
 
 
 

 
 
  Net sales
$
2,085

$
2,405

$
2,566

$
2,886

$
3,231

$
3,536

47
%
  Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
78
%
69
%
64
%
58
%
55
%
47
%
N/A

  Net sales -- TTM
$
6,894

$
7,880

$
8,880

$
9,943

$
11,088

$
12,219

55
%
  Operating income before stock-based compensation and other:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Operating income
$
521

$
687

$
716

$
863

$
1,021

$
1,106

61
%
Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X
353
%
161
%
161
%
121
%
100
%
62
%
N/A

Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales
25.0
%
28.5
%
27.9
%
29.9
%
31.6
%
31.3
%
N/A

Operating income -- TTM
$
1,417

$
1,863

$
2,315

$
2,787

$
3,286

$
3,706

99
%
Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales
20.6
%
23.6
%
26.1
%
28.0
%
29.6
%
30.3
%
N/A

  Operating income:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Operating income
$
428

$
580

$
604

$
718

$
861

$
926

60
%
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable)
$
78

$
60

$
24

$

$
(20
)
$
(9
)
N/A

Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
 


198
%
136
%
106
%
61
%
N/A

Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales
20.5
%
24.1
%
23.5
%
24.9
%
26.6
%
26.2
%
N/A

Operating income -- TTM


$
1,507

$
1,916

$
2,329

$
2,762

$
3,108

106
%
Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales

19.1
%
21.6
%
23.4
%
24.9
%
25.4
%
N/A

Consolidated Segments Before Stock-Based Compensation and Other:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Operating income
$
993

$
1,750

$
1,660

$
2,108

$
1,383

$
2,176

24
%
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
N/A

67
%
128
%
92
%
38
%
23
%
N/A

Operating margin -- % of Consolidated net sales
3.9
%
4.9
%
5.7
%
6.9
%
4.2
%
5.0
%
N/A

Operating income -- TTM
$
3,811

$
4,523

$
5,478

$
6,511

$
6,902

$
7,328

62
%
Operating margin -- TTM % of Consolidated net sales
3.8
%
4.2
%
4.8
%
5.4
%
5.4
%
5.4
%
N/A






AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions, except employee data)
(unaudited)
 
Q3 2015
Q4 2015
Q1 2016
Q2 2016
Q3 2016
Q4 2016
Y/Y %
Change
Supplemental
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Supplemental North America Segment Net Sales:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Media
$
2,963

$
3,931

$
3,208

$
2,928

$
3,237

$
4,208

7
%
  Media -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
9
%
12
%
8
%
12
%
9
%
7
%
N/A

  Media -- TTM
$
12,096

$
12,483

$
12,722

$
13,030

$
13,304

$
13,580

9
%
  Electronics and other general merchandise
$
11,840

$
17,325

$
13,511

$
14,459

$
15,327

$
21,590

25
%
  Electronics and other general merchandise -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
35
%
28
%
32
%
32
%
29
%
25
%
N/A

  Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM
$
46,606

$
50,401

$
53,663

$
57,134

$
60,622

$
64,887

29
%
  Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM % of North America net sales
78
%
79
%
80
%
80
%
81
%
81
%
N/A

  Other
$
203

$
245

$
277

$
287

$
310

$
442

81
%
Supplemental International Segment Net Sales:
 
 
 
 

 
 
  Media
$
2,320

$
3,292

$
2,480

$
2,283

$
2,491

$
3,377

3
%
  Media -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
6
%
5
%
9
%
7
%
7
%
7
%
N/A

  Media -- TTM
$
10,140

$
10,026

$
10,186

$
10,375

$
10,546

$
10,631

6
%
  Electronics and other general merchandise
$
5,901

$
8,491

$
7,034

$
7,504

$
8,056

$
10,514

24
%
  Electronics and other general merchandise -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X
32
%
31
%
33
%
36
%
36
%
28
%
N/A

  Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM
$
23,814

$
25,196

$
26,851

$
28,930

$
31,084

$
33,107

31
%
  Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM % of International net sales
70
%
71
%
72
%
73
%
74
%
75
%
N/A

  Other
$
46

$
58

$
52

$
57

$
62

$
74

26
%
Stock-based Compensation Expense
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cost of sales




$
7

$
9

N/A

Fulfillment
$
122

$
137

$
116

$
186

$
165

$
190

38
%
Marketing
$
48

$
57

$
56

$
80

$
85

$
102

79
%
Technology and content
$
309

$
364

$
317

$
419

$
434

$
493

36
%
General and administrative
$
65

$
48

$
55

$
83

$
85

$
93

94
%
Total stock-based compensation expense
$
544

$
606

$
544

$
768

$
776

$
887

46
%
Other
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WW shipping revenue
$
1,494

$
2,328

$
1,820

$
2,000

2,154

$
3,003

29
%
WW shipping revenue -- Y/Y growth
43
%
37
%
40
%
43
%
44
%
29
%
N/A

WW shipping costs
$
2,720

$
4,170

$
3,275

$
3,362

3,897

$
5,634

35
%
WW shipping costs -- Y/Y growth
35
%
37
%
42
%
44
%
43
%
35
%
N/A

WW net shipping costs
$
1,226

$
1,842

$
1,455

$
1,362

$
1,743

$
2,631

43
%
WW net shipping costs -- Y/Y growth
26
%
37
%
44
%
45
%
42
%
43
%
N/A

WW paid units -- Y/Y growth
26
%
26
%
27
%
28
%
28
%
24
%
N/A

WW seller unit mix -- % of WW paid units
46
%
47
%
48
%
49
%
50
%
49
%
N/A

Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel)
222,400

230,800

245,200

268,900

306,800

341,400

48
%
Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) -- Y/Y growth
49
%
50
%
49
%
47
%
38
%
48
%
N/A





Amazon.com, Inc.
Certain Definitions
Customer Accounts
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.
Seller Accounts
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.

AWS Customers

References to AWS customers mean unique AWS customer accounts, which are unique customer account IDs that are eligible to use AWS services. This includes AWS accounts in the AWS free tier. Multiple users accessing AWS services via one account ID are counted as a single account. Customers are considered active when they have had AWS usage activity during the preceding one-month period.
Units
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.

Contacts:
 
 
 
Amazon.com Investor Relations
 
Amazon.com Public Relations
Darin Manney, amazon-ir@amazon.com
 
Ty Rogers, amazon-pr@amazon.com
www.amazon.com/ir
 
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