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Amazon's cloud unit, AWS, grew 28% last quarter, its fastest in 15 quarters. Operating margin reached a record 13.1%.
Amazon trades at a lower forward P/E than Walmart and Costco despite stronger long-term growth drivers. Walmart and Costco command premium valuations because investors pay up for predictable, resilient earnings.
Gil Luria, Head of Technology Research at D.A.
Alphabet (GOOG), the parent company of Google; Amazon (AMZN), the e-commerce and cloud-computing company behind Amazon Web Services; Meta Platforms (META), the
Jim Cramer just made his first bearish call in 25 years, and the trigger was not a market crash or a recession signal but a single bond deal that he says proves the AI spending machine is quietly running out of fuel.
The project pipeline for data centers in North America increased by 4% in June from May, with hyperscalers driving the growth.
Our Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) call is straightforward: the stock has room to run into year-end.
Six tech giants have flooded the corporate bond market with a level of borrowing that dwarfs anything seen in recent memory, and the bet only pays off if AI delivers returns at a scale that has never been proven.
At $247.04, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN | AMZN Price Prediction) looks compelling on a risk/reward basis.