TechCheck+ Amazon’s Missing Profit 3/24/23
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🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | During the pandemic, no company grew more than Amazon. It hired well over half a |
| 0:07.3 | million workers. It doubled its physical network of warehouses, sales sort, so |
| 0:12.0 | did its stock price. |
| 0:13.5 | Along the way, though, something else shrunk, |
| 0:16.0 | Amazon's profit. |
| 0:17.6 | But it's a company, guys, it's doubled its revenue base |
| 0:20.3 | from 2019 and show no operating leverage so far. Profits haven't moved at all. |
| 0:25.2 | Since 2019, revenue has nearly doubled at the company, but take a look at losses or that profitability |
| 0:32.3 | rather, it has gone from a profit to a loss we saw the first |
| 0:35.9 | unprofitable year since 2014 and that says at all he has a very big job in front of him |
| 0:41.4 | Andy Jassy that is Amazon is now the least profitable very big |
| 0:45.0 | job in front of him, Andy Jassy, that is. |
| 0:42.0 | Amazon is now the least profitable big tech name. |
| 0:45.0 | It went from raking in over 300 billion dollars in net income in 2021 |
| 0:50.0 | to a loss of nearly 3 billion dollars in 2022. |
| 0:54.0 | All those stockings like it never happened. |
| 0:57.0 | And this is the crux of the issue. |
| 0:59.0 | Look at how Amazon's performance has compared to its big tech peers, |
| 1:02.0 | Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet. |
| 1:03.7 | They're all up more than 50%. |
| 1:05.2 | The S&P has returned 20%. |
| 1:07.1 | Amazon and Meta are the outliers. |
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