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This Is Your Chance To Buy Amazon, Not Sell It

... prospects, with a fairly low stock valuation compared to most other stocks. "There aren't many of those and as it goes down over the next couple of days, which has been the pattern, I think you would be nuts to pass it up," Cramer said. Shares of International Paper fell 5 percent on Thursday after the company reported earnings, which CEO Mark Sutton attributed to a " margins squeeze " that occurred in the second half of 2016. "We had input costs rising. We were able to raise prices, but that's just beginning to take traction as we turn the calendar into 2017," Sutton told " Mad Money " host Jim Cramer. International Paper is the top maker of corrugated packaging in North America, and a major producer of coated paperboard and un-coated free sheet. The stock has had a big run since the election, up to nearly $58 last week from $44 on Election Day. Wings too hot. Boston Globe | Getty Images. Snap-on 's stock shed 7 percent on Thursday, which seemed very bizarre to Cramer, as he didn't think the numbers ...

Amazon Earnings Show Lighter Holiday Sales Than Expected, Stock Drops

... projected on average $36 billion. 4:15 pm. Add a Comment. Lots of talk in the press release about expansion of AWS. Highlights include three new AI services, Amazon Athena, a pay-as-you-go query service, and new infrastructure to support AWS services in various geographic regions around the globe, including S. Korea and India. 4:16 pm. Fulfillment costs, the amount Amazon spends to get orders to people, declined year-over-year to $4.5 billion from $5.7 billion. This was a big problem last year in this quarterly report. 4:18 pm. Add a Comment. This is a crazy wide operating income guidance. The company says it’s expecting operating income to be between $250 million and $900 million in the fiscal first quarter. That would mark a decline from $1.1 billion in the same quarter last year. 4:19 pm. Add a Comment. We can pick apart Amazon’s performance in the holiday quarter relative to expectations, but we should take a minute to marvel at ...

Wall Street Expects Huge Jump In Amazon's Q4 Sales, As Old Retailers Sink

... 28 percent in the year that just ended. Wall Street remains exceptionally bullish on the stock, with 91 percent of analysts tracked by Fact Set carrying "buy" recommendations. But the administration of President Donald Trump has introduced some investor skepticism. Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos publicly sparred during the campaign, in part over how Trump was covered by The Washington Post, which Bezos owns. Trump indicated that Amazon had an antitrust issue and would have "such problems" if he were elected. After slumping almost 9 percent in the four trading days following the election, Amazon shares bounced back and are trading near a record. Concern remains that Trump's travel ban focused on seven Muslim-majority nations and his potential reforms of the H-1 B visa program could hurt Amazon and other tech companies that rely on foreign talent. From a purely business standpoint, Amazon is riding high. In addition to growth in e-commerce and a burgeoning gadget business with the Echo and Fire TV stick, Amazon is at the heart ...

Buy Amazon ‘aggressively’ On Any Post-earnings Dip, Say Bullish Analysts

... analysts. They clearly weren’t as disappointed as others, either: __link__’s 4 Q 16 earnings exceeded our expectations, and we view 22% revenue growth as very respectable in a difficult retail environment,” said Yruma and the team. While investment in Prime (video and delivery) remains a headwind for the first half, Pacific Crest analysts believe it should “help sustain strong revenue growth.”. Time to plant seeds, wait for spring: Not all analysts were as enthralled by Amazon’s results. Brian Nowak and the team at Morgan Stanley cut their price target to $900 per share from $950, maintaining an overweight rating. “While we remain bullish about Amazon’s long-term opportunity and ability to execute on these investments (Prime digital content is leading to more Prime subs, AMZN’s last mile investments are leading to increased efficiency, ...

Amazon Sinks As Revenue Misses, Guidance Disappoints

... to have the lowest prices, a "cost of doing business," chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky said. "Part of the revenue miss might be the ongoing shift to being a third-party marketplace," RJ Hottovy, senior retail analyst at Morningstar, told CNBC's " Closing Bell." "When that happens, you're not getting as much of the revenue in there.". Active "fulfilled by Amazon" sellers grew 70 percent in 2016, Olsavsky said. "Our shipping costs are tied to the increase in that [fulfilled by Amazon] percentage, and that growth of Amazon-fulfilled units," Olsavsky said. Twenty-three new fulfillment centers in the second half of the year, Academy Award–nominated original content with pricey talent, Alexa and Echo devices, and expansion into India were among Amazon's biggest investments, the company said on a conference call. ...

Fast Money Traders Discuss How To Trade Amgen And Amazon Earnings

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Record Holiday Sales To Take Center Stage

... Trump’s immigration ban. At the end of December, Amazon said it had its best-ever holiday season in 2016, shipping more than 1 billion items world-wide. Among the top-selling devices were the company’s own Alexa-powered smart devices, such as Echo Dot and Amazon Echo. Here’s what to expect. Earnings: Sell-side analysts surveyed by Fact Set expect Amazon to report a GAAP profit of $1.37 a share, compared with a dollar in the year-earlier period. Contributors to Estimize, a software platform that uses crowdsourcing from hedge fund executives, brokerages and buy-side analysts to predict earnings, expect Amazon to report $1.49 a share. Amazon missed both consensus estimates last quarter by a wide margin. However, it surpassed both by a wide margin in the two quarters prior. This is when driverless cars will hit the road. At CES in Las Vegas, tech executives, industry analysts and enthusiasts voiced different ideas about when self-driving cars would become widely available. Market Watch took a spin in a semiautonomous car to learn more about this emerging technology. Revenue: The company is expected to ...

Microsoft Corporation Msft , Amazon.com, Inc. Amzn And Cincinnati Financial Corporation Cinf

... months following this crossover. Volume on AMZN has dropped a little over the last week as we’ve seen traders back away ahead of the earnings. Call options on the stock have dropped in premium, suggesting that the options traders aren’t expecting Amazon stock to knock the cover off of the ball this afternoon. This adds up to breakout potential for the stock on an in-line report. The potential fly in the ointment would be the fact that MSFT is growing their Azure line of business. Watch for this to take a little away from the magic that has been AWS, Amazon’s real driving force. Outside of that, the charts suggest a breakout on the way for AMZN. Cincinnati Financial Corporation (CINF). Last month, Cincinnati Financial shares took a hit on the exposure to the tragedy in Gatlinburg. Since then, CINF shares have spent their time consolidating and trying to place a tradable bottom, but there’s a hanging issue. As of this week, all but the 200-day moving average have transitioned into a ...