When one gets on a hot streak like the one Amazon has been on for the last several weeks, it can be hard to remember baseball great Connie Mack’s sage advice: You can’t win them all. Because no matter how big, smart or powerful a...
When it comes to reporting quarterly earnings, there’s beating Wall Street’s expectations, really beating them, and then there is what Amazon did yesterday. Eight straight quarters of profits seem to have finally shaken off its reputation for being the world’s most successful company that failed...
Shares of online retailer stocks managed to lag the broader markets in October, a performance that at least partially keyed into lackluster earnings results for the third quarter, which ended in September. Overall, InternetRetailer.com said its tracking of 25 eCommerce names showed the group off 6.5...
Amazon’s earnings finally made Wall Street happy. Which, they don’t always do — even if the company does make a profit. For instance, when Amazon posted a Q4 2015 profit of $482 million, lower than expected, its stock dipped 13 percent in post-trading hours. Fast forward to...
April 27, 2018
There are good earnings days, there are great earnings days and there are astonishing earnings days. Amazon’s earnings day yesterday floated someplace between great and astonishing – and the market took note. As soon as the news broke, Amazon’s share price jumped 7 percent in afterhours trading and continued to climb from there. Aside from the numbers (we’ll get […]
July 28, 2017
When one gets on a hot streak like the one Amazon has been on for the last several weeks, it can be hard to remember baseball great Connie Mack’s sage...
April 28, 2017
When it comes to reporting quarterly earnings, there’s beating Wall Street’s expectations, really beating them, and then there is what Amazon did yesterday. Eight straight quarters of profits seem to...
November 10, 2016
Shares of online retailer stocks managed to lag the broader markets in October, a performance that at least partially keyed into lackluster earnings results for the third quarter, which ended in September. Overall, InternetRetailer.com said its tracking of 25 eCommerce names showed the group off 6.5 percent, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite was down 2.1 percent […]
April 29, 2016
Amazon’s earnings finally made Wall Street happy. Which, they don’t always do — even if the company does make a profit. For instance, when Amazon posted a Q4 2015 profit of...
October 23, 2015
Amazon’s Q3 earnings announcement is a tale of two companies. One year ago, Amazon’s quarterly results were so bad that even The New York Times was mocking the company with its report, which kicked off with...
