Amazon Prime Day isn’t the catalyst it used to be

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Amazon’s annual Prime Day shows e\u002Dcommerce isn’t the driver it once was for the stock, as investors focus on cloud\u002Dcomputing unit. Read on.

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In the past four years, the stock has fallen in the week of the two-day sale in which the retail giant discounts swathes of items. The first four years beginning in 2015 saw Amazon shares average a gain of more than two per cent in the week of the event, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Canada's best source for investing news, analysis, and insight on investment strategies, stocks and more.

“Most people invest in Amazon for both” e-commerce and AWS, Eric Clark, portfolio manager at Accuvest Global Advisors, said in an interview. But with “AI being part of the conversation kind of almost every minute of every day, it’s clearly the AWS opportunity and the potential AI implications” that’s proving to be more attractive.

 

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