Cloud and retail giant
Amazon has beaten market forecasts for the first quarter of 2016, with a 28% increase in sales. Amazon, which has headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States, was established in 1994. The company is a global brand focusing on cloud and ecommerce activity. Its news prompted the company’s shares to increase by 10% in after hours trading, with last Friday’s share price going up $677.74 at it highest point.
Amazon brought in a profit $513 million during its first quarter, almost double forecasts. The figures were a response to the huge success of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-computing activity and growth of its Amazon Prime subscription service (which includes its instant streaming service Amazon Video). AWS alone increased activity by 64% in the period, a result of the company’s substantial investment in the area. Its revenue for the period was reportedly $29.1 billion.
This is the company’s fourth straight profitable quarter and, while the $2.57 billion revenue AWS generated was only around 9% of revenue income, it accounted for 56% of Amazon’s profits. Amazon’s ‘Media’ activity generated $5.7 billion during the quarter, an increase of 8%, while its ‘Retail’ activity generated $20.5 billion, an increase of 31%.
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