Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Results

SEATTLE--()--Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2023.

  • Net sales increased 13% to $143.1 billion in the third quarter, compared with $127.1 billion in third quarter 2022. Excluding the $1.4 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 11% compared with third quarter 2022.
    • North America segment sales increased 11% year-over-year to $87.9 billion.
    • International segment sales increased 16% year-over-year to $32.1 billion, or increased 11% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates.
    • AWS segment sales increased 12% year-over-year to $23.1 billion.
  • Operating income increased to $11.2 billion in the third quarter, compared with $2.5 billion in third quarter 2022.
    • North America segment operating income was $4.3 billion, compared with an operating loss of $0.4 billion in third quarter 2022.
    • International segment operating loss was $0.1 billion, compared with an operating loss of $2.5 billion in third quarter 2022.
    • AWS segment operating income was $7.0 billion, compared with operating income of $5.4 billion in third quarter 2022.
  • Net income increased to $9.9 billion in the third quarter, or $0.94 per diluted share, compared with $2.9 billion, or $0.28 per diluted share, in third quarter 2022.
    • Third quarter 2023 net income includes a pre-tax valuation gain of $1.2 billion included in non-operating income (expense) from the common stock investment in Rivian Automotive, Inc., compared to a pre-tax valuation gain of $1.1 billion from the investment in third quarter 2022.
  • Operating cash flow increased 81% to $71.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $39.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2022.
  • Free cash flow improved to an inflow of $21.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an outflow of $19.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2022.
  • Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations improved to an inflow of $15.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an outflow of $28.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2022.
  • Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations improved to an inflow of $20.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an outflow of $21.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended September 30, 2022.

We had a strong third quarter as our cost to serve and speed of delivery in our Stores business took another step forward, our AWS growth continued to stabilize, our Advertising revenue grew robustly, and overall operating income and free cash flow rose significantly,” said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO. “The benefits of moving from a single national fulfillment network in the U.S. to eight distinct regions are exceeding our optimistic expectations, and perhaps most importantly, putting us on pace to deliver the fastest delivery speeds for Prime customers in our 29-year history. The AWS team continues to innovate and deliver at a rapid clip, particularly in generative AI, where the combination of our custom AI chips, Amazon Bedrock being the easiest and most flexible way to build and deploy generative AI applications, and our coding companion (CodeWhisperer) allowing enterprises to have the equivalent of an experienced engineer who understands all of their proprietary code is driving momentum with customers, including adidas, Booking.com, GoDaddy, LexisNexis, Merck, Royal Philips, and United Airlines, all of whom are starting to run generative AI workloads on AWS. Between AWS re:Invent and our 29th holiday shopping season, this is a particularly action-packed time of year at Amazon and we’re excited for what’s to come.”

Highlights

Obsessing over the customer experience

Amazon obsesses over how to make customers’ lives better and easier every day with new and improved products and services. This is true for consumers, sellers, brands, developers, enterprises, and creators. For example, Amazon:

  • Sold hundreds of millions of items worldwide during Prime Big Deal Days, Amazon’s largest two-day October holiday kick-off event ever. Prime members across 19 countries saved more than $1 billion on millions of deals. On the first day of the event, U.S. Prime members purchased more than 25 million items with Same-Day or Next-Day Delivery, with hundreds of thousands of items delivered within four hours of purchase.
  • Announced new Buy with Prime features to help merchants grow their businesses on their own websites, such as the ability to integrate Buy with Prime with Shopify. The Buy with Prime app for Shopify will make it easier for Shopify merchants to manage their businesses, with inventory, pricing, and promotions automatically synced in one place. In addition, Buy with Prime Assist enables merchants to offer 24/7 post-order customer service support at no additional cost, and the Buy with Prime cart feature allows customers to purchase multiple Buy with Prime products in one transaction from a single merchant.
  • Announced new offerings to help customers get and stay healthy, including an expanded Amazon Clinic virtual health care marketplace now available across the U.S. to provide care for more than 35 conditions, and 60-minute delivery of medications through Amazon Pharmacy using Prime Air drones in College Station, Texas. Additionally, Amazon Pharmacy partnered with Blue Shield of California on a first-of-its-kind model to provide more affordable pharmacy care to its members, where Amazon Pharmacy will offer fast, free home delivery of prescription medications to more than 4.8 million Blue Shield of California members, starting in 2025.
  • Partnered with BuzzFeed, Hearst Newspapers, Pinterest, Raptive, and Ziff Davis brands like Lifehacker and Mashable, among others, to display sponsored product ads on their apps and websites for products sold in Amazon’s U.S. store. These third-party ad partnerships will make it easier for customers to move from inspiration to buying in one or two clicks.
  • Attracted 15.1 million viewers for the Thursday Night Football (TNF) season opener, Prime Video’s most watched TNF game ever, according to Nielsen. Through the first six games, TNF averaged 12.9 million viewers, an increase of 25% from last season’s six-game average, according to Nielsen. Season to date, the median age for TNF viewers is 47, which is seven years younger than the median age watching the NFL on linear networks.
  • Debuted the second season of Amazon Original series The Summer I Turned Pretty, which had double the global audience in the first three days compared to Season One. In addition, for the first seven weeks after its debut, it was the most viewed series on Prime Video in over 100 countries.
  • Released Amazon Original films and series A Million Miles Away, the real-life story of NASA flight engineer José Hernández; Red, White & Royal Blue, the romantic comedy based on Casey McQuiston’s New York Times best-selling novel; The Burial, a true story exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice, starring Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones; Sitting in Bars with Cake, the story of baking and best friends; and Gen V, an expansion of The Boys Universe. Amazon also premiered the second seasons of the hit young-adult drama The Summer I Turned Pretty and the fantasy series The Wheel of Time, and rebooted the globally beloved soap opera Neighbours.
  • Premiered new films from Amazon MGM Studios, including American Fiction, which won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film will begin its theatrical release in December. Amazon MGM Studios also released the indie film Bottoms, which opened in select U.S. markets on August 25.
  • Launched Prime Video Channels and the Prime Video Store in Chile and Colombia, and grew Prime Video’s international slate of content with more than 40 local Amazon Originals and live sporting events. This includes: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Australia), Cangaço Novo (Brazil), Los Iniciados (Colombia), All or Nothing: The German National Team in Qatar (Germany), Made in Heaven (India), The Ferragnez - The Series (Italy), Sanremo Special (Italy), and Wilderness (UK).
  • Entered a strategic collaboration to advance generative AI with Anthropic. As part of the expanded collaboration, Anthropic selected AWS as its primary cloud provider and will build and deploy future generations of its foundation models on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia chips. Anthropic plans to run the majority of its workloads on AWS and will also provide AWS customers with access to future generations of its foundation models via Amazon Bedrock. Amazon developers and engineers will have the opportunity to build with Anthropic models to enhance existing applications and create new customer experiences.
  • Announced new AI-driven commitments and expansions from AWS customers.
    • BMW Group selected AWS to power its next-generation of automated driving platform, which will use BMW's preexisting Cloud Data Hub on AWS, and will use AWS compute, generative AI, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning (ML), and storage capabilities to help accelerate the delivery of highly automated BMW vehicles.
    • UK-based bank NatWest expanded its partnership with AWS to accelerate the responsible use of AI and co-create AI products on foundation models available through Amazon Bedrock to enhance the financial well-being of its 10 million customers.
    • Occidental, an international energy company and carbon management leader, selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to improve operational efficiencies, reduce IT infrastructure costs, and develop systems for carbon removal plants, which are expected to capture 1 million metric tons per year. Occidental is leveraging AWS analytics and ML services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to scale IT resources, and AWS Lake Formation to increase efficiencies and extract greater value from operational data.
    • PwC announced a collaboration with AWS to deliver a goal of $800 million in business value to clients and strengthen PwC’s offerings, including cloud migration and modernization, data and analytics, cybersecurity and risk, customer experience, managed services, generative AI, and climate reporting and transition to net-zero carbon emissions.
    • EVERSANA, provider of commercial services to the global life sciences industry, teamed up with AWS to use Amazon Bedrock to accelerate generative AI use cases to help pharmaceutical and life science manufacturers drive efficiencies and business value while improving patient outcomes.
    • DS Smith, a sustainable packaging provider, will leverage AWS’s global infrastructure, advanced analytics, IoT, AI, and ML to derive deeper business intelligence, deliver new digital customer experiences, and drive automation at scale across its supply chain, including real-time monitoring of manufacturing capacity and supply chain management to support sustainability targets.
    • Abdul Latif Jameel, an internationally diversified business, selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to use AWS analytics, ML, and Amazon Bedrock to develop generative AI applications that will help car manufacturers offer digital showroom experiences for customers and enhance in-car experiences, while reducing development costs.
    • South Korean game developer NCSOFT launched seven large language models (LLMs) on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to democratize generative AI in Korea and accelerate development of new gaming and creative applications.
    • Genpact, a global professional services firm, expanded its relationship with AWS to transform its financial crime risk operations by leveraging generative AI and LLMs. Genpact is accelerating efficiencies and impact for their clients by integrating their proprietary cloud-based financial crime suite with Amazon Bedrock.
  • Continued to expand AWS’s infrastructure footprint to support customers by launching the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region and a new AWS Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona. The AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region is estimated to support an average of 7,700 full-time equivalent jobs annually through a planned investment of $7.2 billion through 2037.

Inventing on behalf of customers

Amazon is driven by a passion for invention across all of its business areas. The company builds new products and services that customers ask for, and also invents new ones that customers didn’t know they wanted but make their lives or businesses better in some meaningful way. For example, Amazon:

  • Launched product review highlights, a new generative AI–powered feature that lets shoppers in Amazon’s U.S. store quickly determine what other customers are saying about a product before reading through reviews. Review highlights provide a short paragraph on the product detail page with features and customer sentiment frequently mentioned across reviews.
  • Introduced generative AI capabilities to help sellers create product listings as part of numerous innovations at Accelerate 2023, Amazon’s annual seller conference. Other announcements included an end-to-end, fully automated set of supply chain services called Supply Chain by Amazon that allows sellers to quickly and reliably move products directly from their manufacturers to customers. In India, Amazon also announced a generative AI–based digital assistant to help small businesses establish an ecommerce presence. The tool will help sellers with registration, listing, and advertising.
  • Previewed a smarter and more conversational Alexa, powered by generative AI and an LLM custom-built for voice interactions. New conversational AI capabilities include the ability to make multiple requests at once, make more ambiguous smart home requests, set up an Alexa Routine entirely by voice instead of the app, and make more natural and conversational requests without having to use specific phrases or device names.
  • Announced new LLM tools that will make it easier for developers to create more conversational and intuitive Alexa experiences for their customers. Brands using these new tools include BMW, Character.AI, iRobot, Philips Hue, Splash, and Volley.
  • Introduced the next-generation Echo Show 8 built-in smart home hub that can process common smart home requests 40% faster than previous generations, Echo Hub smart home control panel to manage smart home devices, and next-generation Echo Frames smart audio glasses with hands-free access to Alexa, extended battery life, and improved audio.
  • Announced updates to the Fire TV experience, including an enhanced AI-powered Fire TV voice search, so customers can ask Alexa open-ended questions about TV shows and movies using conversational language; a “Continue Watching” row that aggregates content from streaming entertainment providers, including Amazon Freevee, Disney+, Hulu, MGM+, Peacock, and STARZ; and an AI Art feature, so customers can create artwork on their Fire TV devices using their voice.
  • Unveiled the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, which comes with the Fire TV Ambient Experience that turns the TV into an always-smart display so customers can see Calendars and Reminders, control smart devices, or play audio. Amazon also introduced the Fire TV Stick 4K with support for Wi-Fi 6, and the Fire TV Soundbar that provides room-filling sound with support for DTS Virtual:X and Dolby Audio.
  • Expanded home security offerings with the Ring Stick Up Cam Pro, giving customers an aerial perspective to pinpoint and send more accurate alerts; Blink Outdoor 4, with improved image quality for person detection; and Blink Sync Module Pro with extended range, giving customers options in where they install their cameras.
  • Introduced eero Max 7, which combines patented TrueMesh networking technology with the latest Wi-Fi 7 standard to dramatically increase speeds, avoid interference, and improve latency.
  • Kicked off Project Kuiper’s Protoflight mission with the launch of two prototype satellites aboard an Atlas V rocket from United Launch Alliance. Project Kuiper, Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband initiative, will use this multimonth mission to test its satellites and network from space, and collect data ahead of the planned start of satellite production later this year. Project Kuiper also announced a partnership with Vodafone and Vodacom to extend the reach of their 4G/5G networks in Africa and Europe, provide backup to businesses, scale for major events, and quickly recover after disasters.
  • Enhanced the viewing experience for Thursday Night Football with AI-driven features powered by AWS, such as Prime Targets and Defensive Alerts. Prime Targets uses ML to highlight which receivers are in position to convert a first down. Defensive Alerts uses a generative AI model that grows more accurate over time to identify players that are likely to rush the quarterback.
  • Announced new AWS technologies and capabilities that help customers of all sizes take advantage of generative AI, improve productivity, and enhance their security posture. Customers are using Amazon Bedrock to bring generative AI to their businesses, including adidas, Booking.com, Bridgewater Associates, Clariant, Coda, GoDaddy, LexisNexis Legal & Professional, Lonely Planet, Merck, Royal Philips, Showpad, Travelers, and United Airlines. New offerings include:
    • General availability of Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers leading foundation models as a single application programming interface (API), along with capabilities that help customers build generative AI applications, simplifying development while maintaining privacy and security.
    • More choice for Amazon Bedrock customers with the addition of Meta as a model provider. Amazon Bedrock is the first service to offer Meta’s Llama 2 model as a fully managed service available through a single API.
    • New model customization capability for Amazon CodeWhisperer, an AI-powered coding companion, allowing organizations to securely customize CodeWhisperer suggestions to include their internal code base.
    • AWS Entity Resolution, an ML-powered analytics service that helps organizations improve the quality of their data by analyzing, matching, and linking related consumer, business, and product records stored across multiple applications, channels, and data stores.
    • New business intelligence authoring capabilities for Amazon QuickSight, so data analysts can use natural language queries to ask forecast and “why” questions, receive accurate answers, and create compelling visualizations in seconds.

Empowering employees and delivery service partners

In addition to its focus on customers, Amazon strives to make every day better for its employees and delivery service partners. For example, the company:

  • Announced that Amazon will hire 250,000 full-time, part-time, and seasonal employees in the U.S. this holiday season. Amazon also announced its largest-ever annual investment in U.S. hourly employee pay—$1.3 billion—bringing the new average hourly wage for customer fulfillment and delivery roles to more than $20.50 per hour. Over the last five years, Amazon has invested $10 billion in hourly employee wages.
  • Added 14 benefits to Amazon’s FamilyFlex program, which provides operations employees and their family members with tools to help them achieve personal and professional growth. New benefits include financial wellness resources, mental health offerings, and temporary schedule adjustment policies for flexibility. Amazon also extended its family-building and fertility benefits to support more than 1 million employees and their partners across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
  • Announced an $840 million investment in the Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program in the U.S. to support DSPs in providing higher wages and more benefits to drivers, including childcare-support services and tuition reimbursement for coursework at accredited universities as part of the Next Mile education program, which already offers access to more than 2,000 academic programs and up to $5,250 in annual tuition coverage.

Supporting communities and protecting the environment

Amazon believes that success and scale bring broad responsibility to help the planet, future generations, and communities. Amazon employees have passion for investing in these areas, and a sampling of the efforts from this past quarter are that Amazon:

  • Supporting humanitarian aid efforts amid the Israel-Hamas war. Amazon is focused on ensuring that employees in the area are safe and have access to resources such as My HR Live Support, where employees can discuss their specific situations with advisers, and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides resources to support employees and their families. Amazon’s disaster relief team has been in close contact with international humanitarian relief partners and is making financial contributions to these organizations. Amazon is making it easy for employees to contribute to them through Amazon GIVEhub, an internal tool to support volunteerism, donations, and community engagement.
  • Activated Amazon’s disaster relief teams to provide support in response to the Maui wildfires, Hurricane Idalia in Florida, and the earthquake in Morocco. Amazon mobilized its global logistics infrastructure and inventory, and quickly donated more than 300,000 relief items. Additionally, AWS helped set up temporary communications infrastructure to provide internet and phone connectivity in Maui in collaboration with the Information Technology Disaster Resource Center, and funded mappers to assess the earthquake-affected areas in Morocco.
  • Committed to promoting the safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology in collaboration with the White House, policymakers, technology organizations, and the AI community. The commitment builds on Amazon’s approach to responsible AI development and lays the groundwork for enhancing the benefits of AI and minimizing its risks.
  • Published the company’s latest Economic Impact Study, which estimates that Amazon generated more than $240 billion in investment in the U.S. in 2022 and supported more than 2 million indirect jobs across industries such as logistics, construction, hospitality, and professional services, among others.
  • Announced a $40 million program to help moderate-income residents in Amazon’s hometown communities become homeowners. As part of the Amazon Housing Equity Fund, this is the first program aimed at homeownership—helping members in these communities purchase homes and build generational wealth.
  • Celebrated its annual Global Month of Volunteering in September, when tens of thousands of Amazon employees in more than 50 countries volunteered with over 400 community organizations around the world.
  • Announced that 90% of electricity consumed by Amazon in 2022 was powered by renewable energy sources—up from 85% in 2021. From 2014 through 2022, Amazon’s wind and solar farms helped generate $12.6 billion in investments for communities around the world, and contributed more than $5.4 billion in global gross domestic product (GDP). Amazon now has more than 400 wind and solar projects globally.
  • Announced that the company will require suppliers to share their carbon emissions data with Amazon and set carbon goals beginning in 2024, and that Amazon will provide tools and resources to help suppliers reach their goals. Amazon also announced the Sustainability Solutions Hub, a new resource to help independent sellers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, and U.S. with product and packaging sustainability efforts.
  • Invested in direct air capture, a technology that chemically scrubs carbon dioxide from the air before storing it deep underground or in applications like building materials and low-carbon fuels, from 1PointFive and CarbonCapture Inc.
  • Announced that in 2022 Amazon decreased single-use plastic by 11.6% across its global operations by expanding paper-based packaging, continuing to use lighter and more flexible packaging, and eliminating packaging altogether where possible.

Financial Guidance

The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com’s expectations as of October 26, 2023, and are subject to substantial uncertainty. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic and geopolitical conditions and customer demand and spending (including the impact of recessionary fears), inflation, interest rates, regional labor market constraints, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, cloud services, and new and emerging technologies, and the various factors detailed below.

Fourth Quarter 2023 Guidance

  • Net sales are expected to be between $160.0 billion and $167.0 billion, or to grow between 7% and 12% compared with fourth quarter 2022. This guidance anticipates a favorable impact of approximately 40 basis points from foreign exchange rates.
  • Operating income is expected to be between $7.0 billion and $11.0 billion, compared with $2.7 billion in fourth quarter 2022.
  • This guidance assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, restructurings, or legal settlements are concluded.

A conference call will be webcast live today at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET, and will be available for at least three months at amazon.com/ir. This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company’s financial and operating results.

These forward-looking statements are inherently difficult to predict. Actual results and outcomes could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, in addition to the factors discussed above, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of claims, litigation, government investigations, and other proceedings, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, variability in demand, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains, and develops commercial agreements, proposed and completed acquisitions and strategic transactions, payments risks, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services, and technologies, system interruptions, government regulation and taxation, and fraud. In addition, global economic and geopolitical conditions and additional or unforeseen circumstances, developments, or events may give rise to or amplify many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(in millions)

(unaudited)

 

 

Three Months Ended
September 30,

Nine Months Ended
September 30,

Twelve Months Ended
September 30,

 

2022

2023

2022

2023

2022

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, BEGINNING OF PERIOD

$

37,700

 

$

50,067

 

$

36,477

 

$

54,253

 

$

30,177

 

$

35,178

 

OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

 

2,872

 

 

9,879

 

 

(3,000

)

 

19,801

 

 

11,323

 

 

20,079

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash from operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment and capitalized content costs, operating lease assets, and other

 

10,327

 

 

12,131

 

 

29,236

 

 

34,843

 

 

39,103

 

 

47,528

 

Stock-based compensation

 

5,556

 

 

5,829

 

 

14,015

 

 

17,704

 

 

17,695

 

 

23,310

 

Non-operating expense (income), net

 

(1,272

)

 

(990

)

 

13,521

 

 

(409

)

 

1,589

 

 

3,036

 

Deferred income taxes

 

(825

)

 

(1,196

)

 

(4,781

)

 

(4,412

)

 

(8,404

)

 

(7,779

)

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventories

 

732

 

 

808

 

 

(5,772

)

 

(1,194

)

 

(7,687

)

 

1,986

 

Accounts receivable, net and other

 

(4,794

)

 

(6,718

)

 

(13,109

)

 

(10,364

)

 

(19,665

)

 

(19,152

)

Accounts payable

 

(1,226

)

 

2,820

 

 

(6,907

)

 

(5,415

)

 

1,082

 

 

4,437

 

Accrued expenses and other

 

(20

)

 

(1,321

)

 

(7,335

)

 

(9,022

)

 

1,998

 

 

(3,245

)

Unearned revenue

 

54

 

 

(25

)

 

1,711

 

 

949

 

 

2,631

 

 

1,454

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

 

11,404

 

 

21,217

 

 

17,579

 

 

42,481

 

 

39,665

 

 

71,654

 

INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases of property and equipment

 

(16,378

)

 

(12,479

)

 

(47,053

)

 

(38,141

)

 

(65,988

)

 

(54,733

)

Proceeds from property and equipment sales and incentives

 

1,337

 

 

1,181

 

 

4,172

 

 

3,361

 

 

6,637

 

 

4,513

 

Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, non-marketable investments, and other

 

(885

)

 

(1,629

)

 

(7,485

)

 

(5,458

)

 

(7,866

)

 

(6,289

)

Sales and maturities of marketable securities

 

557

 

 

1,393

 

 

25,918

 

 

4,059

 

 

38,455

 

 

9,742

 

Purchases of marketable securities

 

(239

)

 

(219

)

 

(2,332

)

 

(1,053

)

 

(10,598

)

 

(1,286

)

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

 

(15,608

)

 

(11,753

)

 

(26,780

)

 

(37,232

)

 

(39,360

)

 

(48,053

)

FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock repurchased

 

 

 

 

 

(6,000

)

 

 

 

(6,000

)

 

 

Proceeds from short-term debt, and other

 

12,338

 

 

216

 

 

30,946

 

 

17,395

 

 

33,613

 

 

28,002

 

Repayments of short-term debt, and other

 

(7,916

)

 

(8,095

)

 

(21,757

)

 

(19,339

)

 

(24,416

)

 

(35,136

)

Proceeds from long-term debt

 

107

 

 

 

 

12,931

 

 

 

 

13,131

 

 

8,235

 

Repayments of long-term debt

 

 

 

 

 

(1

)

 

(3,386

)

 

(1,002

)

 

(4,643

)

Principal repayments of finance leases

 

(1,465

)

 

(1,005

)

 

(6,301

)

 

(3,605

)

 

(8,561

)

 

(5,245

)

Principal repayments of financing obligations

 

(48

)

 

(64

)

 

(186

)

 

(198

)

 

(233

)

 

(260

)

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

3,016

 

 

(8,948

)

 

9,632

 

 

(9,133

)

 

6,532

 

 

(9,047

)

Foreign currency effect on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

 

(1,334

)

 

(502

)

 

(1,730

)

 

(288

)

 

(1,836

)

 

349

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

 

(2,522

)

 

14

 

 

(1,299

)

 

(4,172

)

 

5,001

 

 

14,903

 

CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, END OF PERIOD

$

35,178

 

$

50,081

 

$

35,178

 

$

50,081

 

$

35,178

 

$

50,081

 

SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid for interest on debt, net of capitalized interest

$

304

 

$

465

 

$

932

 

$

1,821

 

$

1,299

 

$

2,450

 

Cash paid for operating leases

 

1,813

 

 

2,692

 

 

6,268

 

 

7,687

 

 

7,961

 

 

10,052

 

Cash paid for interest on finance leases

 

88

 

 

76

 

 

290

 

 

234

 

 

404

 

 

318

 

Cash paid for interest on financing obligations

 

39

 

 

50

 

 

152

 

 

150

 

 

189

 

 

205

 

Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds

 

742

 

 

2,628

 

 

4,340

 

 

6,982

 

 

4,674

 

 

8,677

 

Assets acquired under operating leases

 

6,755

 

 

3,345

 

 

14,031

 

 

11,075

 

 

19,839

 

 

15,844

 

Property and equipment acquired under finance leases, net of remeasurements and modifications

 

131

 

 

183

 

 

358

 

 

431

 

 

1,966

 

 

748

 

Property and equipment recognized during the construction period of build-to-suit lease arrangements

 

526

 

 

93

 

 

2,877

 

 

308

 

 

4,847

 

 

618

 

Property and equipment derecognized after the construction period of build-to-suit lease arrangements, with the associated leases recognized as operating

 

2,195

 

 

492

 

 

3,307

 

 

1,212

 

 

3,363

 

 

3,063

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(in millions, except per share data)

(unaudited)

 

 

Three Months Ended
September 30,

Nine Months Ended
September 30,

 

2022

2023

2022

2023

 

 

 

 

 

Net product sales

$

59,340

 

$

63,171

 

$

172,370

 

$

179,184

 

Net service sales

 

67,761

 

 

79,912

 

 

192,409

 

 

225,640

 

Total net sales

 

127,101

 

 

143,083

 

 

364,779

 

 

404,824

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

Cost of sales

 

70,268

 

 

75,022

 

 

203,191

 

 

212,186

 

Fulfillment

 

20,583

 

 

22,314

 

 

61,196

 

 

64,524

 

Technology and infrastructure

 

19,485

 

 

21,203

 

 

52,399

 

 

63,584

 

Sales and marketing

 

11,014

 

 

10,551

 

 

29,420

 

 

31,468

 

General and administrative

 

3,061

 

 

2,561

 

 

8,558

 

 

8,806

 

Other operating expense (income), net

 

165

 

 

244

 

 

504

 

 

613

 

Total operating expenses

 

124,576

 

 

131,895

 

 

355,268

 

 

381,181

 

Operating income

 

2,525

 

 

11,188

 

 

9,511

 

 

23,643

 

Interest income

 

277

 

 

776

 

 

544

 

 

2,048

 

Interest expense

 

(617

)

 

(806

)

 

(1,673

)

 

(2,469

)

Other income (expense), net

 

759

 

 

1,031

 

 

(13,356

)

 

649

 

Total non-operating income (expense)

 

419

 

 

1,001

 

 

(14,485

)

 

228

 

Income (loss) before income taxes

 

2,944

 

 

12,189

 

 

(4,974

)

 

23,871

 

Benefit (provision) for income taxes

 

(69

)

 

(2,306

)

 

1,990

 

 

(4,058

)

Equity-method investment activity, net of tax

 

(3

)

 

(4

)

 

(16

)

 

(12

)

Net income (loss)

$

2,872

 

$

9,879

 

$

(3,000

)

$

19,801

 

Basic earnings per share

$

0.28

 

$

0.96

 

$

(0.29

)

$

1.93

 

Diluted earnings per share

$

0.28

 

$

0.94

 

$

(0.29

)

$

1.89

 

Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

10,191

 

 

10,322

 

 

10,178

 

 

10,286

 

Diluted

 

10,331

 

 

10,558

 

 

10,178

 

 

10,452

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)

(in millions)

(unaudited)

 

 

Three Months Ended
September 30,

Nine Months Ended
September 30,

 

2022

2023

2022

2023

 

 

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

$

2,872

 

$

9,879

 

$

(3,000

)

$

19,801

 

Other comprehensive income (loss):

 

 

 

 

Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $76, $36, $136, and $4

 

(2,142

)

 

(1,388

)

 

(4,661

)

 

(738

)

Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities:

 

 

 

 

Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $(4), $(18), $(3), and $(52)

 

(195

)

 

62

 

 

(1,095

)

 

174

 

Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in “Other income (expense), net,” net of tax of $0, $0, $0, and $(15)

 

4

 

 

3

 

 

17

 

 

48

 

Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities

 

(191

)

 

65

 

 

(1,078

)

 

222

 

Total other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(2,333

)

 

(1,323

)

 

(5,739

)

 

(516

)

Comprehensive income (loss)

$

539

 

$

8,556

 

$

(8,739

)

$

19,285

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Segment Information

(in millions)

(unaudited)

 

 

Three Months Ended
September 30,

Nine Months Ended
September 30,

 

2022

2023

2022

2023

 

 

 

 

 

North America

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

78,843

 

$

87,887

 

$

222,517

 

$

247,314

 

Operating expenses

 

79,255

 

 

83,580

 

 

225,124

 

 

238,898

 

Operating income (loss)

$

(412

)

$

4,307

 

$

(2,607

)

$

8,416

 

 

 

 

 

 

International

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

27,720

 

$

32,137

 

$

83,544

 

$

90,957

 

Operating expenses

 

30,186

 

 

32,232

 

 

89,062

 

 

93,194

 

Operating loss

$

(2,466

)

$

(95

)

$

(5,518

)

$

(2,237

)

 

 

 

 

 

AWS

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

20,538

 

$

23,059

 

$

58,718

 

$

66,553

 

Operating expenses

 

15,135

 

 

16,083

 

 

41,082

 

 

49,089

 

Operating income

$

5,403

 

$

6,976

 

$

17,636

 

$

17,464

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

127,101

 

$

143,083

 

$

364,779

 

$

404,824

 

Operating expenses

 

124,576

 

 

131,895

 

 

355,268

 

 

381,181

 

Operating income

 

2,525

 

 

11,188

 

 

9,511

 

 

23,643

 

Total non-operating income (expense)

 

419

 

 

1,001

 

 

(14,485

)

 

228

 

Benefit (provision) for income taxes

 

(69

)

 

(2,306

)

 

1,990

 

 

(4,058

)

Equity-method investment activity, net of tax

 

(3

)

 

(4

)

 

(16

)

 

(12

)

Net income (loss)

$

2,872

 

$

9,879

 

$

(3,000

)

$

19,801

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment Highlights:

 

 

 

 

Y/Y net sales growth (decline):

 

 

 

 

North America

 

20

%

 

11

%

 

13

%

 

11

%

International

 

(5

)

 

16

 

 

(8

)

 

9

 

AWS

 

27

 

 

12

 

 

32

 

 

13

 

Consolidated

 

15

 

 

13

 

 

10

 

 

11

 

Net sales mix:

 

 

 

 

North America

 

62

%

 

61

%

 

61

%

 

61

%

International

 

22

 

 

23

 

 

23

 

 

23

 

AWS

 

16

 

 

16

 

 

16

 

 

16

 

Consolidated

 

100

%

 

100

%

 

100

%

 

100

%

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in millions, except per share data)

(unaudited)

 

 

December 31, 2022

September 30, 2023

 

 

 

ASSETS

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

$

53,888

 

$

49,605

 

Marketable securities

 

16,138

 

 

14,564

 

Inventories

 

34,405

 

 

35,406

 

Accounts receivable, net and other

 

42,360

 

 

43,420

 

Total current assets

 

146,791

 

 

142,995

 

Property and equipment, net

 

186,715

 

 

196,468

 

Operating leases

 

66,123

 

 

70,758

 

Goodwill

 

20,288

 

 

22,749

 

Other assets

 

42,758

 

 

53,913

 

Total assets

$

462,675

 

$

486,883

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

Accounts payable

$

79,600

 

$

72,004

 

Accrued expenses and other

 

62,566

 

 

58,812

 

Unearned revenue

 

13,227

 

 

14,398

 

Total current liabilities

 

155,393

 

 

145,214

 

Long-term lease liabilities

 

72,968

 

 

75,891

 

Long-term debt

 

67,150

 

 

61,098

 

Other long-term liabilities

 

21,121

 

 

21,707

 

Commitments and contingencies

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

 

 

Preferred stock ($0.01 par value; 500 shares authorized; no shares issued or outstanding)

 

 

 

 

Common stock ($0.01 par value; 100,000 shares authorized; 10,757 and 10,845 shares issued; 10,242 and 10,330 shares outstanding)

 

108

 

 

108

 

Treasury stock, at cost

 

(7,837

)

 

(7,837

)

Additional paid-in capital

 

75,066

 

 

92,711

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(4,487

)

 

(5,003

)

Retained earnings

 

83,193

 

 

102,994

 

Total stockholders’ equity

 

146,043

 

 

182,973

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

$

462,675

 

$

486,883

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics

(in millions, except per share data)

(unaudited)

 

 

Q2 2022

Q3 2022

Q4 2022

Q1 2023

Q2 2023

Q3 2023

Y/Y %

Change

Cash Flows and Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM)

$

35,574

 

$

39,665

 

$

46,752

 

$

54,330

 

$

61,841

 

$

71,654

 

81%

Operating cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth (decline)

 

(40

)%

 

(27

)%

 

1

%

 

38

%

 

74

%

 

81

%

N/A

Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives -- TTM

$

59,061

 

$

59,351

 

$

58,321

 

$

57,649

 

$

53,963

 

$

50,220

 

(15)%

Principal repayments of finance leases -- TTM

$

9,789

 

$

8,561

 

$

7,941

 

$

6,544

 

$

5,705

 

$

5,245

 

(39)%

Principal repayments of financing obligations -- TTM

$

205

 

$

233

 

$

248

 

$

226

 

$

244

 

$

260

 

12%

Equipment acquired under finance leases -- TTM (1)

$

1,621

 

$

868

 

$

299

 

$

285

 

$

269

 

$

239

 

(72)%

Principal repayments of all other finance leases -- TTM (2)

$

751

 

$

706

 

$

670

 

$

625

 

$

631

 

$

694

 

(2)%

Free cash flow -- TTM (3)

$

(23,487

)

$

(19,686

)

$

(11,569

)

$

(3,319

)

$

7,878

 

$

21,434

 

N/A

Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations -- TTM (4)

$

(33,481

)

$

(28,480

)

$

(19,758

)

$

(10,089

)

$

1,929

 

$

15,929

 

N/A

Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations -- TTM (5)

$

(26,064

)

$

(21,493

)

$

(12,786

)

$

(4,455

)

$

6,734

 

$

20,241

 

N/A

Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding

 

10,551

 

 

10,597

 

 

10,627

 

 

10,625

 

 

10,794

 

 

10,792

 

2%

Common shares outstanding

 

10,183

 

 

10,198

 

 

10,242

 

 

10,258

 

 

10,313

 

 

10,330

 

1%

Stock-based awards outstanding

 

368

 

 

399

 

 

384

 

 

367

 

 

481

 

 

462

 

16%

Stock-based awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding

 

3.6

%

 

3.9

%

 

3.8

%

 

3.6

%

 

4.7

%

 

4.5

%

N/A

Results of Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worldwide (WW) net sales

$

121,234

 

$

127,101

 

$

149,204

 

$

127,358

 

$

134,383

 

$

143,083

 

13%

WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

10

%

 

19

%

 

12

%

 

11

%

 

11

%

 

11

%

N/A

WW net sales -- TTM

$

485,902

 

$

502,191

 

$

513,983

 

$

524,897

 

$

538,046

 

$

554,028

 

10%

WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

11

%

 

12

%

 

13

%

 

13

%

 

13

%

 

12

%

N/A

Operating income

$

3,317

 

$

2,525

 

$

2,737

 

$

4,774

 

$

7,681

 

$

11,188

 

343%

F/X impact -- favorable

$

165

 

$

357

 

$

213

 

$

139

 

$

104

 

$

132

 

N/A

Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

(59

)%

 

(55

)%

 

(27

)%

 

26

%

 

128

%

 

338

%

N/A

Operating margin -- % of WW net sales

 

2.7

%

 

2.0

%

 

1.8

%

 

3.7

%

 

5.7

%

 

7.8

%

N/A

Operating income -- TTM

$

15,298

 

$

12,971

 

$

12,248

 

$

13,353

 

$

17,717

 

$

26,380

 

103%

Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

(49

)%

 

(57

)%

 

(54

)%

 

(37

)%

 

10

%

 

99

%

N/A

Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales

 

3.1

%

 

2.6

%

 

2.4

%

 

2.5

%

 

3.3

%

 

4.8

%

N/A

Net income (loss)

$

(2,028

)

$

2,872

 

$

278

 

$

3,172

 

$

6,750

 

$

9,879

 

244%

Net income (loss) per diluted share

$

(0.20

)

$

0.28

 

$

0.03

 

$

0.31

 

$

0.65

 

$

0.94

 

237%

Net income (loss) -- TTM

$

11,607

 

$

11,323

 

$

(2,722

)

$

4,294

 

$

13,072

 

$

20,079

 

77%

Net income (loss) per diluted share -- TTM

$

1.13

 

$

1.10

 

$

(0.27

)

$

0.42

 

$

1.26

 

$

1.93

 

76%

______________________________

(1)

For the twelve months ended September 30, 2022 and 2023, this amount relates to equipment included in “Property and equipment acquired under finance leases, net of remeasurements and modifications” of $1,966 million and $748 million.

(2)

For the twelve months ended September 30, 2022 and 2023, this amount relates to property included in “Principal repayments of finance leases” of $8,561 million and $5,245 million.

(3)

Free cash flow is cash flow from operations reduced by “Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives.”

(4)

Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by “Principal repayments of finance leases” and “Principal repayments of financing obligations.”

(5)

Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by equipment acquired under finance leases, which is included in “Property and equipment acquired under finance leases, net of remeasurements and modifications,” principal repayments of all other finance lease liabilities, which is included in “Principal repayments of finance leases,” and “Principal repayments of financing obligations.”

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics

(in millions)

(unaudited)

 

 

Q2 2022

Q3 2022

Q4 2022

Q1 2023

Q2 2023

Q3 2023

Y/Y %

Change

Segments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America Segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

74,430

 

$

78,843

 

$

93,363

 

$

76,881

 

$

82,546

 

$

87,887

 

11%

Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

10

%

 

20

%

 

14

%

 

11

%

 

11

%

 

11

%

N/A

Net sales -- TTM

$

291,591

 

$

304,877

 

$

315,880

 

$

323,517

 

$

331,633

 

$

340,677

 

12%

Operating income (loss)

$

(627

)

$

(412

)

$

(240

)

$

898

 

$

3,211

 

$

4,307

 

N/A

F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)

$

61

 

$

95

 

$

76

 

$

41

 

$

(7

)

$

(27

)

N/A

Operating income (loss) -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

(122

)%

 

(158

)%

 

53

%

 

N/A

 

 

N/A

 

 

N/A

 

N/A

Operating margin -- % of North America net sales

 

(0.8

)%

 

(0.5

)%

 

(0.3

)%

 

1.2

%

 

3.9

%

 

4.9

%

N/A

Operating income (loss) -- TTM

$

(1,521

)

$

(2,813

)

$

(2,847

)

$

(381

)

$

3,457

 

$

8,176

 

N/A

Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales

 

(0.5

)%

 

(0.9

)%

 

(0.9

)%

 

(0.1

)%

 

1.0

%

 

2.4

%

N/A

International Segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

27,065

 

$

27,720

 

$

34,463

 

$

29,123

 

$

29,697

 

$

32,137

 

16%

Net sales -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

(1

)%

 

12

%

 

5

%

 

9

%

 

10

%

 

11

%

N/A

Net sales -- TTM

$

122,241

 

$

120,816

 

$

118,007

 

$

118,371

 

$

121,003

 

$

125,420

 

4%

Operating loss

$

(1,771

)

$

(2,466

)

$

(2,228

)

$

(1,247

)

$

(895

)

$

(95

)

(96)%

F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)

$

(231

)

$

(216

)

$

(331

)

$

(174

)

$

32

 

$

228

 

N/A

Operating loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

(526

)%

 

147

%

 

17

%

 

(16

)%

 

(48

)%

 

(87

)%

N/A

Operating margin -- % of International net sales

 

(6.5

)%

 

(8.9

)%

 

(6.5

)%

 

(4.3

)%

 

(3.0

)%

 

(0.3

)%

N/A

Operating loss -- TTM

$

(5,590

)

$

(7,145

)

$

(7,746

)

$

(7,712

)

$

(6,836

)

$

(4,465

)

(38)%

Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales

 

(4.6

)%

 

(5.9

)%

 

(6.6

)%

 

(6.5

)%

 

(5.6

)%

 

(3.6

)%

N/A

AWS Segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

19,739

 

$

20,538

 

$

21,378

 

$

21,354

 

$

22,140

 

$

23,059

 

12%

Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

33

%

 

28

%

 

20

%

 

16

%

 

12

%

 

12

%

N/A

Net sales -- TTM

$

72,070

 

$

76,498

 

$

80,096

 

$

83,009

 

$

85,410

 

$

87,931

 

15%

Operating income

$

5,715

 

$

5,403

 

$

5,205

 

$

5,123

 

$

5,365

 

$

6,976

 

29%

F/X impact -- favorable (unfavorable)

$

335

 

$

478

 

$

468

 

$

272

 

$

79

 

$

(69

)

N/A

Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

28

%

 

1

%

 

(10

)%

 

(26

)%

 

(8

)%

 

30

%

N/A

Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales

 

29.0

%

 

26.3

%

 

24.3

%

 

24.0

%

 

24.2

%

 

30.3

%

N/A

Operating income -- TTM

$

22,409

 

$

22,929

 

$

22,841

 

$

21,446

 

$

21,096

 

$

22,669

 

(1)%

Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales

 

31.1

%

 

30.0

%

 

28.5

%

 

25.8

%

 

24.7

%

 

25.8

%

N/A

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics

(in millions, except employee data)

(unaudited)

 

 

Q2 2022

Q3 2022

Q4 2022

Q1 2023

Q2 2023

Q3 2023

Y/Y %

Change

Net Sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Online stores (1)

$

50,855

 

$

53,489

 

$

64,531

 

$

51,096

 

$

52,966

 

$

57,267

 

7%

Online stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

0

%

 

13

%

 

2

%

 

3

%

 

5

%

 

6

%

N/A

Physical stores (2)

$

4,721

 

$

4,694

 

$

4,957

 

$

4,895

 

$

5,024

 

$

4,959

 

6%

Physical stores -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

13

%

 

10

%

 

6

%

 

7

%

 

7

%

 

6

%

N/A

Third-party seller services (3)

$

27,376

 

$

28,666

 

$

36,339

 

$

29,820

 

$

32,332

 

$

34,342

 

20%

Third-party seller services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

13

%

 

23

%

 

24

%

 

20

%

 

18

%

 

18

%

N/A

Subscription services (4)

$

8,716

 

$

8,903

 

$

9,189

 

$

9,657

 

$

9,894

 

$

10,170

 

14%

Subscription services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

14

%

 

14

%

 

17

%

 

17

%

 

14

%

 

13

%

N/A

Advertising services (5)

$

8,757

 

$

9,548

 

$

11,557

 

$

9,509

 

$

10,683

 

$

12,060

 

26%

Advertising services -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

21

%

 

30

%

 

23

%

 

23

%

 

22

%

 

25

%

N/A

AWS

$

19,739

 

$

20,538

 

$

21,378

 

$

21,354

 

$

22,140

 

$

23,059

 

12%

AWS -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

33

%

 

28

%

 

20

%

 

16

%

 

12

%

 

12

%

N/A

Other (6)

$

1,070

 

$

1,263

 

$

1,253

 

$

1,027

 

$

1,344

 

$

1,226

 

(3)%

Other -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

135

%

 

168

%

 

80

%

 

57

%

 

26

%

 

(3

)%

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock-based Compensation Expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of sales

$

213

 

$

190

 

$

208

 

$

165

 

$

251

 

$

193

 

2%

Fulfillment

$

763

 

$

727

 

$

757

 

$

603

 

$

932

 

$

732

 

1%

Technology and infrastructure

$

2,814

 

$

3,036

 

$

3,126

 

$

2,574

 

$

4,043

 

$

3,284

 

8%

Sales and marketing

$

990

 

$

1,128

 

$

1,092

 

$

993

 

$

1,303

 

$

1,111

 

(2)%

General and administrative

$

429

 

$

475

 

$

423

 

$

413

 

$

598

 

$

509

 

7%

Total stock-based compensation expense

$

5,209

 

$

5,556

 

$

5,606

 

$

4,748

 

$

7,127

 

$

5,829

 

5%

Other

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WW shipping costs

$

19,304

 

$

19,942

 

$

24,714

 

$

19,937

 

$

20,418

 

$

21,799

 

9%

WW shipping costs -- Y/Y growth

 

9

%

 

10

%

 

4

%

 

2

%

 

6

%

 

9

%

N/A

WW paid units -- Y/Y growth (7)

 

1

%

 

11

%

 

8

%

 

8

%

 

9

%

 

9

%

N/A

WW seller unit mix -- % of WW paid units (7)

 

57

%

 

58

%

 

59

%

 

59

%

 

60

%

 

60

%

N/A

Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel)

 

1,523,000

 

 

1,544,000

 

 

1,541,000

 

 

1,465,000

 

 

1,461,000

 

 

1,500,000

 

(3)%

Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) -- Y/Y growth (decline)

 

14

%

 

5

%

 

(4

)%

 

(10

)%

 

(4

)%

 

(3

)%

N/A

________________________

(1)

Includes product sales and digital media content where we record revenue gross. We leverage our retail infrastructure to offer a wide selection of consumable and durable goods that includes media products available in both a physical and digital format, such as books, videos, games, music, and software. These product sales include digital products sold on a transactional basis. Digital media content subscriptions that provide unlimited viewing or usage rights are included in “Subscription services.”

(2)

Includes product sales where our customers physically select items in a store. Sales to customers who order goods online for delivery or pickup at our physical stores are included in “Online stores.”

(3)

Includes commissions and any related fulfillment and shipping fees, and other third-party seller services.

(4)

Includes annual and monthly fees associated with Amazon Prime memberships, as well as digital video, audiobook, digital music, e-book, and other non-AWS subscription services.

(5)

Includes sales of advertising services to sellers, vendors, publishers, authors, and others, through programs such as sponsored ads, display, and video advertising.

(6)

Includes sales related to various other offerings, such as certain licensing and distribution of video content, health care services, and shipping services, and our co-branded credit card agreements.

(7)

Excludes the impact of Whole Foods Market.

Amazon.com, Inc.
Certain Definitions

Customer Accounts

  • References to customers mean customer accounts established when a customer places an order through one of our stores. Customer accounts exclude certain customers, including customers associated with certain of our acquisitions, Amazon Payments customers, AWS customers, and the customers of select companies with whom we have a technology alliance or marketing and promotional relationship. Customers are considered active when they have placed an order during the preceding twelve-month period.

Seller Accounts

  • References to sellers means seller accounts, which are established when a seller receives an order from a customer account. Sellers are considered active when they have received an order from a customer during the preceding twelve-month period.

AWS Customers

  • References to AWS customers mean unique AWS customer accounts, which are unique customer account IDs that are eligible to use AWS services. This includes AWS accounts in the AWS free tier. Multiple users accessing AWS services via one account ID are counted as a single account. Customers are considered active when they have had AWS usage activity during the preceding one-month period.

Units

  • References to units mean physical and digital units sold (net of returns and cancellations) by us and sellers in our stores as well as Amazon-owned items sold in other stores. Units sold are paid units and do not include units associated with AWS, certain acquisitions, certain subscriptions, rental businesses, or advertising businesses, or Amazon gift cards.

 

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Contacts

Amazon Investor Relations
amazon-ir@amazon.com
amazon.com/ir

Amazon Public Relations
amazon-pr@amazon.com
amazon.com/pr