AMZN - Amazon.com, Inc.
| Previous Close | 1,788.61 |
| Open | 1,795.00 |
| Bid | 1,772.55 x 1200 |
| Ask | 1,773.12 x 1100 |
| Day's Range | 1,734.23 - 1,795.05 |
| 52 Week Range | 962.50 - 2,050.50 |
| Volume | 4,531,415 |
| Avg. Volume | 5,219,834 |
| Market Cap | 868.179B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 1.81 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 140.97 |
| EPS (TTM) | 12.63 |
| Earnings Date | Oct 25, 2018 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | N/A (N/A) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | N/A |
| 1y Target Est | 2,164.21 |
- Yahoo Finance•6 hours ago
How Sears plans to save 400 stores from dying
Sears filed for bankruptcy on Monday. But here's how it plans to save 400 stores from extinction.
- Engadget•16 hours ago
Amazon's 'Transparent' will end with a movie-length musical episode
Much like Netflix's challenges with House of Cards, the creators of Amazon's Transparent have faced a problem: how do they wrap up the final season of a long-running show in a way that does the series justice, especially with the departure of a key cast member? Series creator Jill Soloway has revealed to the New York Times that the last episode of the fifth season will be a two-hour musical episode. Details are scarce, but it'll ideally be a cross of Jesus Christ Superstar, La La Land, Flight of the Conchords and "a little Yentl," according to Soloway.
- Market Realist•17 minutes ago
Why Google Decided to Give JEDI a Wide Berth
Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google has decided not to bid on a huge Pentagon cloud contract worth as much as $10 billion per year that could last as long as ten years. The Pentagon is taking bids for the so-called JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) cloud project after releasing final requirements for the project in July. Google said that it would not bid for the JEDI contract because it couldn’t obtain sufficient assurance that the project would align with its corporate values.
- MarketWatch•38 minutes ago
Amazon could suffer 5% income drop if proposed U.S. Postal Service price hikes go into effect
Amazon.com Inc.’s retail operating income could take a 5% hit from shipping cost inflation if the U.S. Postal Service’s proposed price hikes go into effect.
- Quartz•5 days ago
Amazon’s “holy grail” recruiting tool was actually just biased against women
From 2014 until 2017, Amazon tried to build a tool that used artificial intelligence to rate the best job candidates like products on its website, from one to five stars, according to a new report from Reuters. But a year into the project, the programers realized that the algorithmic system wasn’t good at identifying people’s…
- Quartz•6 days ago
Amazon may be the biggest threat to Google since Facebook
Amazon is coming for Google’s lunch. For years, marketers and industry insiders have heralded Amazon as a burgeoning “third force” in advertising, as former WPP chief Martin Sorrell once put it. Now, advertisers are beginning to shift dollars away from digital ad giant Google and toward Amazon, where people increasingly go to search for things…
- Quartz•5 days ago
Tech stocks have their worst day since 2011. Is there more to come?
It wasn’t long ago that Amazon and Apple share prices seemed to defy gravity, and were pulling the rest of the stock market up with them. But what goes up tends also to come down, and the biggest technology companies plunged as jittery investors cashed out today (Oct. 10), sending the tech sector to its…
- American City Business Journals•1 hour ago
Sony stays atop weekend box office with ‘Venom’
“Bad Times at the El Royale” debuted outside the top five, while “Beautiful Boy” got off to a beautiful start in limited release.
- GuruFocus.com•2 hours ago
Walmart or Amazon: An Extended Peer Group Comparison
Assessing the relative investment prospects of two companies
- CNBC•2 hours ago
Amazon launches online store featuring 'Shark Tank' products
Call it a match made in entrepreneurs heaven. Amazon AMZN announced on Monday that it has partnered with "Shark Tank" to feature products made by the entrepreneurs featured on the hit show. "For the first time ever, 'Shark Tank' has a store on Amazon.com dedicated to helping our entrepreneurs scale their businesses and highlight top products from the show," says Barbara Corcoran , one of the investors on the popular show, in a statement released Monday.
- Motley Fool•2 hours ago
What Investors Should Know About Tencent Music's IPO
It's the biggest music-streaming platform in the world and it's already making money, but that's not all for this hugely exciting spin-off.
- American City Business Journals•3 hours ago
Amazon gives $2 million to Alliance for Education to help Seattle students
Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky said the grant, called the ‘Right Now Needs Fund,’ is designed to help Seattle Public Schools meet the most urgent and basic needs of students so that they can concentrate on studies.
- Motley Fool•3 hours ago
3 Top Retail Stocks to Buy in October
Here's why Texas Roadhouse, Amazon, and Walmart are worth a look right now.
- Business Wire•5 hours ago
Amazon Shares a Selection of Customers’ Favorite Books from Indie Authors
(AMZN)—Hundreds of thousands of independent authors are finding their audiences through self-publishing with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). More than ever before, authors are reaching new readers directly and cultivating communities as they grow their writing careers on KDP. On average, 20% of books on this year’s Amazon Charts Top 20 weekly lists are self-published.
