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ISIN code: US0231351067
Sector: Retail
Industry: Internet retail

Amazon shares have their listing on the American market on the New York Stock Exchange (Nasqad) under the ticker AMZN.

See the stock's listing history on the Nasdaq

Company Description

Amazon.com, Inc.. is an American company that offers a number of products and services through its website. Its main activity is the online sale of books but over the years it has been able to diversify and today it sells all types of cultural products such as CDs, DVDs, cameras, video games, small appliances and also offers paid music downloads. Manufactures and sells electronic devices. Furthermore, the purchase and resale of products from third-party sellers and marketplaces is permitted through its site. It is known by all thanks to its strong presence on the Internet throughout the world. It is operational in most of the world, especially in North America, and Europe. Most of its turnover is made in the United States but Amazon has been able to conquer the world and its business is also highly developed in Europe. To date this company is one of the world leaders in the online distribution of mass products. Among the subsidiaries of the company we find Alexa Internet, A9.com, Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Twitch.tv and ComiXology, Goodreads and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The latter offers various cloud computing products and services on a platform of the same name on demand. The main products are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), providing on-demand solutions with high availability, redundancy and security features. AWS accounts for 58% of Amazon's total revenue, making it its largest source of revenue. Another recently acquired company is the Whole Foods Market, Inc. which offers organic and healthy food along with basic necessities in its stores.
Amazon has approximately 840.000 employees and fulfillment centers around the globe.
Its catchphrase is “Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History.

Economic and financial analysis of the company

Amazon.com Inc. was founded on 5 July 1994 da Jeff Bezos. Initially the name given to it was Cadabra.com then changed to Amazon from the name of the Amazon River. It was officially launched in 1995. Its headquarters are in Seattle. Amazon.com began as an online bookstore, but soon expanded to include DVDs, music CDs, software, video games, electronic products, comic books, clothing, furniture, food, toys, and more to diversify its businesses.

It is currently considered the largest Internet company in the world. Bezos, in addition to being elected Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1999 for his commitment to popularizing e-commerce, has been considered the richest man on the planet since 2020.

Its headquarters are located in Beacon Hill, near Seattle. In Europe, Amazon has offices in Luxembourg, Munich, Paris, Bratislava in Slovakia, Milan. It has several software development centers around the world, including Slough and Edinburgh in the UK, Dublin in Ireland, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad in India, Kennewick in the USA, Cape Town, Iaşi and Bucharest in Romania, Beijing and Shibuya, a Tokyo. In addition, it has sorting centers and warehouses around the world.
Amazon ships its products worldwide but does not deliver to North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Iran, Iran and has delivery restrictions in some countries including Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Japan, India, Israel, Pakistan, Qatar, Singapore and Turkey.

Among the main products and services of the company we find:

• Amazon Prime e Prime Now is a paid service that allows customers to take advantage of the possibility of receiving their purchased products in a limited delivery time (one or two days in some areas), as well as other services, by subscribing to a monthly or annual subscription.
• Prime Video is a streaming platform. Amazon is betting a lot on the platform and is increasingly expanding its offer as it arrives. There are more and more original series and films and it has also begun to purchase the rights to broadcast live international football (Premier League, Champions League and soon Serie A) and the American NFL (National Football League).
• Amazon Studio is the division of Amazon.com that develops comics, films and television shows started in late 2010. The content is distributed through Amazon Video.
• Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing platform and web services commercially offered on the web since 2002. It is the main source of income for the company. Amazon's servers are offered to major companies around the world. In March 2006 launches Amazon S3 a storage web service. Amazon S3 as of June 2012 had stored more than 10 billion objects. In August 2006 Amazon introduces EC2 (“Elastic Compute Cloud”), a virtual site farm where users can use the highly stable infrastructure to "run" their applications, such as, for example, simulations and web hosting.
• Self publishing Kindle Direct Publishing KDP Amazon, is the self-publishing platform for ebooks owned by Amazon.com
• Amazon Marketplace, launched in 2001, which allows customers to sell both new and used books, CDs, DVDs and other products.
• Kindle is an electronic book reader, it was then launched worldwide starting from October 2009, initially only in the English language version; starting from 1 December 2011 it is also available for the Italian market.
• "Echo", is a device for home use equipped with a speaker and microphone that integrates an artificial intelligence system, called Alexa, which responds to voice commands. It was launched in November 2014. In March 2016, the Echo range expanded with the arrival of the new “Tap” and “Echo Dot” models.
• Amazon Grocery, launched in 2006, to sell non-perishable food and household items

Amazon was listed on the stock exchange on May 15, 1997, on the NASDAQ with an initial price of $18 per share. In addition, on November 21, 2005 Amazon entered theS&P 500 index. During 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, it reached a record price of $2.474. It currently stands at $3.300 a share.

Initially the business plan was not to make a profit for the first few years and the company grew slowly. But when it exploded dot-com bubble and many companies in the sector went bankrupt, Amazon resisted and achieved its first period of profit in the fourth quarter of 2002, albeit with a result of only 5 million dollars. Suffering the consequences of the crisis and the explosion of the bubble, Amazon has been able to recover by developing numerous services. Since then it has remained profitable with net profits of 35 million dollars in 2003, 588 million in 2004 and 359 million in 2005. Revenues continued to grow thanks to the diversification of the offer and the presence on an international market with 3,9 billion dollars in 2002, 5,3 in 2003, 6,9 in 2004 and 8,5 in 2005.

Amazon's first acquisition was theInternet Movie Database (IMDb) in April 1998, which had until then been a public domain, non-profit site. Bought later PlanetAll who ran a web-based address book/calendar/calendar site in August 1998, paying with 800.000 shares of Amazon stock. With the same acquisition Amazon also took Junglee. com, a startup specializing in data-mining with XML, for 1.6 million shares of Amazon. The two deals together were valued at approximately $280 million at the time.
In 1999 Amazon launched Amazon.com Auctions, its online auction service in March 1999, competing with Ebay. This acquisition was followed by the launch of another e-commerce service called zShops in September 1999, which prepared the success of Amazon Marketplace. In 2003, Amazon had nearly one million members. In June 1999 Amazon bought it Alexa Internet which deals with Internet traffic statistics. Alexa is also a search engine with a web directory service. In September 2002 Amazon launched the Amazon Visa Card, soon to be followed by the Authentication and Easy Buying service for Amazon customers. In 2004 Amazon acquired Joyo. com, a Chinese e-commerce site. Also in that year he also launched a9.com, a group specializing in search algorithms (such as the one used for the Search Inside the Book service) and other innovative technologies for the Internet, such as "Find It on the Block" which made it possible to see not only the address of a business but also the his photo and information on other shops and activities in the same street. In 2005 Amazon acquires BookSurge, a print on demand company. In November 2005, Amazon added a wiki functionality to the product database, allowing any customer who has made at least one purchase to edit a product page. In January 2006 Amazon establishes a cooperation with SideStep, a search company for online travel offers, in order to enhance this service in its section dedicated to tourism.

On November 23, 2010 the Italian version from Amazon.

In January 2014 Amazon activates the evening dispatch which allows you to order a parcel by 12 and receive it by 21 on the same day. In July 2015 Amazon announces its own model of delivery of goods by drones, aiming to deliver parcels via drone in just 30 minutes through non-human controlled systems.

On June 16, 2017, the acquisition of Whole Foods Market for 14 billion dollars. The company, in addition to creating supermarkets with products of controlled and natural origin, offers a takeaway service of prepared food in some of its supermarkets. Whole Foods Market is a health food and organic products retailer. The company operated approximately 500 supermarkets across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

In 2020 Amazon instead enters the capital of Deliveroo, the home delivery company.

Among Amazon's partners we find Ford with which it has signed an agreement for the creation of a device that allows you to control your car remotely; since 2014 with Samsung for broadcasting online content via 4K televisions. In 2015, he partnered with Nintendo for the sale of its products online.

A large part of the company's capital is held by institutional investors including Royal London Asset Management, T.Rowe Price Associated, Vanguard Group, Capital World Investors, Fidelity Management and Research Company, State Street Corporation, BlackRoxk Funds Advisors, Capital Research Global Investors, Baillie Gifford & Co Limited and Jennisson Associate.

On February 2, 2021 Jeff Bezos announces that in the third quarter of the year he will leave the role of chief executive officer to Andy Jassy, formerly CEO of Amazon Web Services, to become executive director of the company.

Il turnover in 2020 it was $347.95 billion with a net income of $17.38 billion.