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1. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)

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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s e-commerce platform is well-diversified and sells gourmet food, groceries, apparel, baby products, consumer electronics, and beauty products along with several other products. The company was launched 27 years ago and operates globally.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) experienced a lag in growth at the start of the year. Inflationary effects weren’t favorable for the e-commerce giant. However, in Q3 2022, the company’s North American segment sales were up by 20% YoY to $78.8 billion. The total revenue was $127.10 billion, representing a 14.7% YoY surge. The EPS was $0.28, compared to $0.31 in Q3 2021 but it outperformed the market estimates by $0.07.

On December 1, Cowen analyst John Blackledge maintained a Buy rating on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s shares and raised the price target to $160 from $150.

Here’s what Baron Funds said about Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) in its Q3 2022 investor letter:

“Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is the world’s largest e-commerce retailer and cloud services provider. Shares of Amazon increased 6% in the quarter after the company reported strong results with 7% year-over-year revenue growth driven by 33% growth in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s leading cloud computing service, while guiding for an acceleration in third quarter revenue growth, which is expected to be between 13% and 17% year-overyear. Amazon’s share of e-commerce is roughly 40%, far ahead of competition, yet domestic e-commerce accounted for only 14.5% of total retail sales (according to U.S. Census Bureau data for the second quarter of 2022), implying durable growth opportunities ahead. Internationally, the opportunity remains large as Amazon still has less than a 2% market share of international retail spending. Its advertising share is also only 3% and growing, underpinned by the structural closed-loop systems it enables (merchants know exactly whether their ad dollars resulted in a purchase since they are all done on the Amazon platform), which enables accurate targeting and measurement. Lastly, AWS has a good runway for growth as the industry still represents only 9.5% out of the $4.3 trillion of global IT spending according to Gartner. Areas such as logistics and health care present additional optionality.”

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