Amazon posts biggest profit ever at height of pandemic in US

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[NEW YORK] Amazon.com Inc on Thursday posted the biggest profit in its 26-year history as online sales and its lucrative business supporting third-party merchants surged during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more at The Business Times.

Amazon's shares have risen by more than 60 per cent this year, adding to the wealth of Mr Bezos, its biggest stockholder. The S&P 500 is virtually flat.

Amazon's cloud services also saw higher demand as companies switched to virtual offices in the pandemic. Revenue from Amazon Web Services , which sells data storage and computing power in the cloud, rose nearly 29 per cent to US$10.81 billion. "Everyone was looking for masks; everyone was looking for gloves; everyone was buying groceries online. That mix is not super profitable," he said."What we saw in Q2 was not only did the mix start to shift back to a more normal mix" but that"we also were able to ship a lot more than we had originally thought".

The company forecast net sales of US$87 billion to US$93 billion for the third quarter, ahead of analysts' expectations of US$86.34 billion, according to IBES data.

 

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