It's Time For a Quick Look at Amazon.com's Fundamentals.

By Naomi Wentworth • Friday, October 28 12:00 • Permanent Link

One of the losers of today's trading session was Amazon.com. Shares of the Internet retail company plunged -7.6%, and some investors may be wondering if its price of $102.53 would make a good entry point. Here's what you should know if you are considering this investment:

Amazon.com has moved -34.2% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -17.3%
AMZN has an average analyst rating of buy and is -38.69% away from its mean target price of $167.22 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (Eps) is $1.07
Amazon.com has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 95.8 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (Eps) is $1.07 and its forward P/E ratio is 45.4
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 7.6 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Amazon.com is part of the Consumer Cyclical sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.11 and an average P/B of 3.11
AMZN has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -8.5% and gross profit margins of 43.0%
The company has a free cash flow of $11752999936, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products and subscriptions in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It sells merchandise and content purchased for resale from third-party sellers through physical and online stores. The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, Rings, and Echo and other devices; provides Kindle Direct Publishing, an online service that allows independent authors and publishers to make their books available in the Kindle Store; and develops and produces media content. In addition, it offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its websites, as well as its stores; and programs that allow authors, musicians, filmmakers, Twitch streamers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, the company provides compute, storage, database, analytics, machine learning, and other services, as well as fulfillment, advertising, publishing, and digital content subscriptions. Additionally, it offers Amazon Prime, a membership program, which provides free shipping of various items; access to streaming of movies and series; and other services. The company serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, and content creators. Amazon.com, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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