Amazon Misses, Growth Slows, Guides Lower, P/E Goes Negative And Stock Soars
The most cartoonish stock of all time just came out with results that can only be characterized as WTF. To wit:
- Q4 revenue of $21.27 billion missed expectations of $22.23 billion
- Q1 EPS of $0.21 missed expectations of $0.27;
- The firm guided top-line lower, seeing Q1 sales of $15-$16 billion, below the estimate of $16.5 billion
- The firm guided operating income much lower, seeing Q1 op income of ($285)-$65 Million on expectations of $261.4 MM
- The firm said the its physical books sales had the lowest growth in 17 years
- Total employees grew by 7,000 in the quarter and 32,200 Y/Y to a record 88,400
- Worldwide net sales Y/Y growth was the slowest in years at 23%, down from 30% in Q3 and 34% a year ago
- And, last and certainly least, LTM Net Income is now officially negative, or ($49) meaning as of this moment the firm with the idiotically high PE has an even more idiotic N/M PE.
... And the stock is soaring in the after hours. Thank you DE Shaw, or actually that is Mr. Bezos who should thank you for the latest AH favor where accelerated HFT buying creates the impression that the numbers were good. They weren't.
Some of the charts accompanying this farce.
Total Employees and Worldwide net sales growth:
Operating and Net Income
LTM Operating Income Margin %
Operating Income Margin % by Quarter
AMZN Free Cash Flow as defined: EBITDA - CapEx
And LTM Net Income
Which means Market Cap to Net Income, or P/E, is now negative, or as it is better known in the industry: N/M.
And now ignore reality: after all the thesis is that the more AMZN loses, the more of its competitors will supposedly go out of business, and greater AMZN's pricing power eventually.
Just not yet.
(11 votes)
- advertisements -
»
- 19854 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
Similar Articles You Might Enjoy:
- Amazon Misses, Guides Lower, Sees Q4 Operating Loss; Shares Tumble
- Amazon Slides After Missing Revenues Expectations, Guides Much Lower
- Amazon Surges After Hours On After-Tax Accounting Gimmick, Cash Burn, Collapsing Margins, And Negative Guidance
- AAPL Beats Revenues And EPS As Margin Declines, Guides Lower, Boosts Buyback And Dividend
- 3 Month 'Slow' In Stocks As Everything Else Goes Nuts
Robo is looking at his AMZN after hours streaming quote screen and is rubbing one out. Let's just leave him alone for a while..........
The dumb bastard is laughing his ass off at all of us right now...
I'm sure the feds pay them nicely for providing lists of what everyone buys.
2,176 copies of 'Catcher In the Rye'. Nothing else.
since Harry Potter... people stopped reading books...
Wuts a buuk?
those bundeled papers with black and white line drawings that you need to colour with your crayons.
If you can keep in the lines, there's a job waiting for you at McDonalds or Wallstreet!
19 years and next quarter forecast: negative operating income.
Stock is an eternal mystery.
How do we do it:WOLUME.
Step 1: Steal underpants (using a larger and larger workforce that helps translate into negative net income)
Step 2: -------
Step 3: Profit and a surging stock.
Don't argue with the Amazon gnomes.
Fuck you pussy. With your little pussy P/E calculations. Little pussy investors afraid of losing money for 20 years. Pussy Gnomes.
I love it: AMZN is the poster child of the Bernanke market and the Obama society. It epitomizes every aspect of the absurd situation of capital and retail markets. It is absolutely without peer in the George Constanza world we live in.
Bizarro George Constanza
Double bubble stock.
Slaughterer I love ya man! Youre one of the few who truly gets itM
AMZN is more like that chick Jerry Seinfeld dated that looked hot in poor lighting and scary as hell as soon as you got a look in different light.
Take AMZN out of the club and into the corridor, and eeehhhhhh-hhhhh-hh-hh-hh-hhhhh.
Up 11% as I type. UFB. Impossible. Uh...I'm speechless.
As Amazon is one of the 12 internet hubs, this doesn't bode well for e-commerce in general.
EBAY =>.....
And there is your dot.com bubble 2.0 moment.
Exactly... Wasnt it AMZN that started the dotcum bubble with Blahgit calling for AMZN 300?
History repeats...
Yep, it repeats, just like shitty pasta salad.
Yep. It's the same thing. In the .com bubble you had stocks that NEVER had positive earnings soaring to new heights. JDSU anyone?
Umm...isn't this how most HYPERINFLATIONS progress???
QE4EVER really does mean more quantity of money chasing fixed # of assets...regardless of their quality. Bernank said there will be inflation...Bernank made sure everyone receives no yield and everyone into Risk...Everyday bank excess reserves climb further...everyday that money seems to find it's way into Risk assets...Those w/ the money first benefit the most...
Seem to recall Weimar stock market going vertical. Funnny thing is hyperinflation seemed to actual acheive a select groups goals in Germany (those w/ capital, land, stocks, PM's, assets abroad) and didn't destroy the country...that's how unmanagable debt was and seemingly is managed.
It's only the middle class, the poor who are destroyed but thats how unpayable debts are cancelled. Why can't we simply call a hyperinflationary period a policy goal...it's that obvious.
US has $8+T of short term T debt and Fed owns none of it thanks to Op Twist...if Fed allows rates up on the short end that's $3T+ of 3yr and shorter debt rolling up from current net .25% to .5% or 1% or heaven forbid '07 like 5%...no, no increasing rates. Just flood the world w/ dollars and drown all debts.
BEZOS: "PROFIT IS FOR LOSERS LIKE APPLE."
+1500 PE
PE showing as +3245???
WINNING!!!
bernanke owns a ton of amzn, lol;
how is this even possible. they missed badly on both the bottom and top line, guidance sucked, this is like the 20 qtr in a row of misses, yet they get rewarded but the stock prob going to 300 on this?
i can only imagine what would happen if they actually beat expectations, we would prob say a plus 200,lol.
this stuff is so comical, i cant anymore
who the fuck is buying this!!!???? just added 30 billion in mkt cap since mid november...
Just everyone's retirement funds. Don't worry, it's cool.
Rotation. It's what happens just before the bottom falls out. Of Everything.
Bear capitulation
Breaking: Amazon beats out both Apple and Facebook for Poster Child of The New Normal. The Bernank is expected to announce that the Fed will begin direct equity purchases of the company later this afternoon!
Hey Tyler- It could have been worse so....buy buy buy.
Unfucking believable. Only on Wall Street can you find this kind of value.
it's gotta be a knee-jerk
tomorrow it gets slaughtered... finally
disagree frank n beans. i hope u r right, but i have seen this too often with amzn, qtr after qtr missing badly, yet stock shoots up 7 plus percent. its sickening.
AMaZiNg, stUPendouS, rally on bitchez!
Reminds me of McCaw Cellular in the late 80's but only 3,000 x's worse.
Was this on the "Conviction Muppet Buy" list? [brought to you by those deeply conscientious ANALysts who work hard for the money]?...
~~~
You'd better 'treat 'her RIGHT'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DsNn1NzxJ8
Guess you got to be sick as a dog if you were short, you see those shite figures and think you have made a killing and then discover you just had your arseholle ripped out with barbed wire!
jubber, i have thought about in the past of shorting amzn, but seeing to often what happens when they miss badly qtr after qtr yet stock still shoots up, its not worth it.
this scenario was so predictable, i knew, along with many others prob they were going to miss badly, but somehow the stock soars.
i hate appl with a passion, but that company still has phenominal revenue ( 4th most in history behind only oil companies for a qtr) yet that stock drops 12 percent.
amzn misses everywhere,and it soars. makes no sense
Apple's time is coming.
(And by that I mean, their stock will soar once they start losing money too.)
are you the jubber from market-ticker?
Bezos is da man who gets me my shit .. Thanks Mr. Bozos
another puzzler like YAHOO!-what has that dumb whore marissa mayer done to double that POS in the last year?
tribal ritual that you'll never be invited to
hahahaha! Nice.
Numbers missed slightly but are still record for Amazon. Guidance weak but Bezos loves to guide low - it's what he does. Stock down nearly 6% today. Just seeing some short covering on thin vol.
I used to short AMZN in the late 90's. A buddy and I looked at it and said "no way this company makes it. It's a $12 stock." It was somewhere around $120 or so at the time. Lost my ass. I still can't find it.
Amazon shares jump after quarterly results
Reuters – 12 minutes ago
Algos are reading profit jump headlines..
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-quarterly-revenue-rose-22-210721902...