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But it's not free. They keyholders might be making it cheap right now but once the quarterly reports aren't showing enough growth it'll all go up.


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Their revenue is indeed growing, but, as you indicate, the company's valuation is not.

Well, I'm pretty sure their revenues are up but at the same time is that how you want to make your money?

Haven't they been been posting pretty shitty quarterly statements for a few years now? They have a lot of money in the bank, so to speak, I'm sure, but it will catch up with them eventually.

As SpikeGronim mentioned, they are operating at a very small profit. Investors are starting to get wary about it so they need to do something to increase those numbers.

Financial Info. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&fstype=ii&ei=...


Yeah sure, but have quarterly revenues gone up? /s

Don't forget that the company isn't profitable yet.

They're in a massive growth phase. Look at their revenue compared to this time last year.

No. They are free cash flow positive, and by $600+ million per quarter already.

They made $3.7M last quarter. That's not "lots of money" for a $32B market cap.

Yup. Their free cash flow is positive, but that's because it ignores share based compensation (which is pretty crazy for a tech company).

Is the monthly revenue growth rate in there? I can't find it. To me that tells the story of whether it's a buy or not (for the mid term).

almost certainly less than you're paying. they still need to make a profit

These financials don't look great.

They earned $219M last year and $205M the year before. That's a top-line revenue growth rate of around 6% -- more common for an old-line company like IBM.

SaaS startups are supposed to have revenue growth >30% when they hit IPO, and the best ones have even higher -- Twilio had ~70%.


The numbers at a glance:

Revenue 2012 $74.6M+ 2013: $125M+ 2014: $195.5M+

Profit: Net loss 2012: (2.3M+) 2013: (0.7M+) 2014: (15.2M+)

$88M cash on hand - so they can afford to run at a loss for a few years while they grow the company. I guess it makes sense to go public and raise more cash while the market is hot.


They're still under $800M in revenue and only growing 25% this year? $20B definitely seems too high of a valuation.

I checked it out, and indeed. It went up from 10% a year ago to a fifth of the revenue. Impressive, but it is still an itching question how much of this is due to an AI/crypto bubble and a few big supercomputers coming online in coming years.

Considering their quarterly profit per employee, they still have room to go up from here: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=google+profit+per+empl...

It's trading at about 6x revenue right now and even lower when looking at forward revenues.

Their growth is tremendous and are on a path to profitability. I get it - when the market are getting banged around like it is, there are few safe places. I just think the baby is being thrown out with the bath water in a lot cases. I'm using this to average down a bit and hold.


How else are they going to grow their quarterly revenue?
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