Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stock

About Amazon.com, Inc.

Amazon.com, Inc. is led by CEO Andrew R. Jassy, employs 1,560,000 people, headquartered in Seattle, US, publicly traded since 1997.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) stock trades at $262.43 with a market capitalization of $2.82T. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 19.82, price-to-book of 4.87, price-to-sales of 3.46. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $196.00 and $287.20, and currently trades 8.6% below its 52-week high.

On profitability, Amazon.com, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 30.50% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 10.97%, an operating margin of 11.50%, a net profit margin of 17.44%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Amazon.com, Inc. reported annual revenue of $716.9B, net profit of $77.7B, revenue has compounded at 13.2% a year over the last five years, profit at 29.5% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.40 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 1.18, total assets of $818.0B, $86.8B in cash and equivalents.

AMZN has an average daily trading volume of 44,655,603 shares, a beta of 1.44 (more volatile than the overall market).