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Radio Show. I'm Chris L. Joining me in studio this week's Senior Analyst Jason Meuser,

Andy Cross and Ron Gross. Good to see you. He was always gentleman. Hey Chris.

It is earnings, Paloza. We have so many earning stories. We don't even have a guess this

week. Sorry Ron. But as always, we do have a few stocks on our radar. We're going to begin

with Amazon getting back into club Trillion. Amazon's fourth quarter profits blew away Wall

Street's expectations on Friday. Amazon stock had its best day in over a year pushing the

company over the trillion dollar market cap, Jason.

Yeah. I mean, a very impressive holiday quarter or not surprising. We could certainly sit

here and riff on concerns regarding shipping and costs as bears like to do. We are not going

to do that though. Chris, because I think they are valid concerns, but take a back seat

to all the positives that the company continues to bring. And you know, we talk a lot about

Amazon Web Services and the importance of that side of the business in just so that listeners

understand why we harp on that every quarter. If you look at the actual quarters results,

Amazon's North American segment generated $1.9 billion in operating profit on $53.7 billion

in sales. The AWS segment generated $2.6 billion in operating profit on just $10 billion

in sales. So you can see how profitable that side of the business is, why it's so important

and why we continue to focus on it. Those are really great results. Now, not going to

be nothing, but but roses here because we can certainly flip that over and look at their

operating margin. There is down more than three percentage points from a year ago. And

that is investing into that to that infrastructure that makes perfect sense. But they continue

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