Amazon.com, Inc.

Amazon continues its battle with macroeconomic headwinds, inflation, and rising interest rates and its latest result was below market expectations on the revenue front. A weak Q4 guidance led to a continuing downward momentum in the stock which witnessed a double-digit selloff for the second time this year after a result. The management saw a good growth in its advertising offerings which contributed to its top-line. Its AWS business also performed well (though its $20.5 billion revenues failed to beat the analyst consensus of $21.1 billion), and its high margins led to the company delivering an earnings beat. It is worth highlighting that third-party sellers, as well as the products offered by them, is a vital strength of the offering of the company. To cater to them, Amazon has introduced new tools, including new email marketing capabilities and free-to-use shipping software, offering new features and discounted shipping rates. In the quarter, the innovative EC2 machine learning training instances in the AWS IoT fleet were launched by the management. It is also continuing to invest in the new infrastructure to meet the capacity needs, also expanding to innovative geographic regions, iterating quickly to enhance existing services and developing new services. We provide the stock of Amazon.com with a ‘Buy’ rating with a revision in the target price.