COMPANY ANALYSIS By: Connor O’Sullivan
WHAT IS AMAZON.COM?
Amazon is the worlds largest online retailer. They sell books and videos to food and everyday appliances on their website, having them surpass Walmart and Ebay in retail sales.
HISTORY OF AMAZON
Amazon was founded in 1994 under the name Cadabra, Inc. They started as an online book store but later diversified to sell videos and streams. After the years, Amazon continued to diversify to sell software, electronics, apparel, toys, furniture, etc.
COMPETITORS
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Ebay Walmart Target Lowes Home Depot Best Buy
AMAZON HQ
Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, Washington in the United States of America
CUSTOMERS
Amazon sells to an immense variety of consumers. Being an international business, Amazon must be sure to have satellite locations around the globe to be able to provide to all age groups.
AMAZON SALES
• Sales over the last 4 years show around a 144,000$ profit increase in sales
AMAZON EXPENSES
• Through the last 3 years, Amazon’s expenses have risen about 100,000$
AMAZON NET INCOME
• Over the last 3 years, Amazon has increased Net Income about 98,000$
COMPARATIVE COMPANY EBAY
EBAY SALES
• In the past 5 years, Ebay has had an increase of 1,956
$
EBAY EXPENSES
• In the past 3 years, Ebay’s expenses rose 1,173
$
EBAY NET INCOME
• Over the last 3 years, Ebay’s net income rose 1,447 $
COMPARISON
• Here you can clearly see that over the past 5 years, Amazon(Dark blue) has greatly surpassed Ebay(Light blue) shortly after 2015.
AMAZON STOCK
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P/E Ratio: 80.58
A closer look at Amazon’s stock increase over the past 5 years. • Currently Amazon sits at 1,623.06
EVALUATION
Currently, I would invest into Amazon. I would invest because their numbers have been doing nothing but increasing, and they seem to be winning over customers from competition at a consistent rate. They are an experienced company in the E-Commerce market and are still on the increase as we speak.
CITATIONS
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN/ https://ir.aboutamazon.com/node/32656/html https://investors.ebayinc.com/financial-information/financialsummary/default.aspx