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Amazon.com Broadcasts Fourth Quarter Outcomes | Amazon.com, Inc.

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 3, 2022– Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) right now introduced monetary outcomes for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021.

  • Working money move decreased 30% to $46.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, in contrast with $66.1 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2020.
  • Free money move decreased to an outflow of $9.1 billion for the trailing twelve months, in contrast with an influx of $31.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2020.
  • Free money move much less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $20.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, in contrast with an influx of $20.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2020.
  • Free money move much less tools finance leases and principal repayments of all different finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $14.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, in contrast with an influx of $21.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2020.
  • Widespread shares excellent plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 523 million on December 31, 2021, in contrast with 518 million one 12 months in the past.

Fourth Quarter 2021

  • Internet gross sales elevated 9% to $137.4 billion within the fourth quarter, in contrast with $125.6 billion in fourth quarter 2020. Excluding the $1.3 billion unfavorable impression from year-over-year modifications in international alternate charges all through the quarter, web gross sales elevated 10% in contrast with fourth quarter 2020.
  • Working earnings decreased to $3.5 billion within the fourth quarter, in contrast with $6.9 billion in fourth quarter 2020.
  • Internet earnings elevated to $14.3 billion within the fourth quarter, or $27.75 per diluted share, in contrast with $7.2 billion, or $14.09 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2020. Fourth quarter 2021 web earnings features a pre-tax valuation acquire of $11.8 billion included in non-operating earnings from our frequent inventory funding in Rivian Automotive, Inc., which accomplished an preliminary public providing in November.

Full Yr 2021

  • Internet gross sales elevated 22% to $469.8 billion, in contrast with $386.1 billion in 2020. Excluding the $3.8 billion favorable impression from year-over-year modifications in international alternate charges all year long, web gross sales elevated 21% in contrast with 2020.
  • Working earnings elevated to $24.9 billion, in contrast with working earnings of $22.9 billion in 2020.
  • Internet earnings elevated $33.4 billion, or $64.81 per diluted share, in contrast with web earnings of $21.3 billion, or $41.83 per diluted share, in 2020.

“An enormous thanks to workers throughout Amazon who overcame one other quarter of COVID-related challenges and delivered for patrons this vacation season. Given the extraordinary development we noticed in 2020 when clients predominantly stayed house, and the truth that we’ve continued to develop on prime of that in 2021, our Retail teammates have successfully operated in peak mode for nearly two years. It’s been an incredible effort, and I’m appreciative and happy with how exhausting our groups have labored to serve clients,” stated Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO. “As anticipated over the vacations, we noticed larger prices pushed by labor provide shortages and inflationary pressures, and these points continued into the primary quarter as a consequence of Omicron. Regardless of these short-term challenges, we proceed to really feel optimistic and excited concerning the enterprise as we emerge from the pandemic. While you mix how we’re staffing and scaling our success community to deliver even quicker supply to extra clients, the extraordinary development of AWS with 40% year-over-year development (and now a $71 billion income run charge), the addition of marquee new leisure like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy and Thursday Night time Soccer, and a plethora of latest capabilities that we’re constructing in areas like Alexa, Ring, Grocery, Pharmacy, Amazon Care, Kuiper, and Zoox, there’s so much to look ahead to within the months and years forward.”

Amazon additionally continues to speculate closely in Prime. In the previous few years, Amazon has added extra product choice out there with quick, free, limitless Prime delivery; extra unique offers and reductions; and extra high-quality digital leisure, together with TV, films, music, and books. Since 2018, Prime Video has tripled the variety of Amazon Originals, rolling out new collection and flicks like The Boys, The Wheel of Time, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Underground Railroad, Sound of Metallic, Coming 2 America, The Tomorrow Struggle, and Being the Ricardos. This September, Prime Video will launch the extremely anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy and turn out to be the unique house of Thursday Night time Soccer as a part of a historic 11-year settlement with the Nationwide Soccer League (NFL). Since 2018 within the U.S., availability of Free Identical-Day Supply has expanded from 48 metropolitan areas to greater than 90, gadgets out there for Prime free delivery have elevated over 50%, and members have saved billions of {dollars} purchasing Prime Day. That is all on prime of latest program advantages like prescription financial savings and quick, free supply from Amazon Pharmacy and the regularly rising Amazon Music for Prime members, Prime Studying, and Prime Gaming. With the continued enlargement of Prime member advantages in addition to the rise in wages and transportation prices, Amazon will enhance the worth of a Prime membership within the U.S., with the month-to-month price going from $12.99 to $14.99, and the annual membership from $119 to $139. That is the primary time Amazon has raised the worth of Prime since 2018. For brand spanking new Prime members, the worth change will go into impact on February 18, 2022, and for present Prime members, the brand new worth will apply after March 25, 2022, on the date of their subsequent renewal.

Highlights

Procuring

  • Amazon had its biggest-ever Black Friday to Cyber Monday vacation purchasing weekend, with attire, magnificence, house, and toys among the many top-selling classes. In the course of the vacation season, third-party sellers—most of that are small and medium-sized companies—achieved file worldwide gross sales in Amazon’s retailer. Greater than 130,000 third-party sellers worldwide surpassed $100,000 in gross sales on Amazon, and between Black Friday and Christmas, U.S.-based third-party sellers bought a mean of 11,500 merchandise per minute. As well as, Amazon India’s month-long Nice Indian Pageant gross sales occasion was the largest purchasing celebration ever for sellers and model companions on Amazon.in, with almost 30,000 sellers surpassing $100,000 in gross sales.
  • Prime members are benefiting from program advantages in file numbers. In 2021, members within the U.S. acquired greater than 6 billion free deliveries, and over 200 million Prime members worldwide streamed reveals and flicks.
  • Amazon Type, Amazon’s first-ever bodily retailer for attire, will open this 12 months at The Americana at Model, a prime purchasing vacation spot in larger Los Angeles. Amazon Type is constructed round personalization and innovation. It makes use of machine studying algorithms to provide tailor-made suggestions in actual time as clients store, making it simpler than ever to find new appears to be like. At Amazon Type, clients will have the ability to have gadgets despatched to a becoming room with the faucet of a button within the Amazon app and proceed purchasing from their becoming room with out having to depart.
  • The primary Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go retailer opened in New York Metropolis. With this new retailer idea, clients can order a handcrafted Starbucks beverage or meals merchandise for pickup by the Starbucks app and seize meals gadgets from the Amazon Go market, multi functional handy location with out having to attend in line to pay. Starbucks and Amazon Go plan to open two extra shops in 2022, with the following location deliberate for The New York Instances Constructing in New York Metropolis.
  • UK grocer Sainsbury’s opened SmartShop Choose & Go, a Simply Stroll Out technology-enabled comfort retailer in Holborn Circus, London. The shop marked the primary time Amazon’s Simply Stroll Out know-how launched in a third-party buyer retailer internationally. It was additionally the primary time Amazon retrofitted a third-party retail retailer with Simply Stroll Out know-how, that means the shop makes use of Sainsbury’s current fixtures and fittings with Amazon’s know-how.
  • For the second 12 months in a row, the Retailer Desire Index—a report from analysis agency dunnhumby primarily based on insights from 10,000 customers on 57 grocers within the U.S.—ranked Amazon as one of the best general grocery retailer. Amazon was acknowledged for providing clients persistently low costs, comfort, and nice choice on all kinds of grocery gadgets bought on Amazon.com.
  • Amazon partnered with Affirm to supply clients much more methods to pay on Amazon. Prospects within the U.S. now have the pliability to separate the overall price of eligible purchases of $50 or extra into month-to-month funds at checkout with no late or hidden charges.
  • Amazon introduced that later this 12 months, greater than 80 million Venmo customers within the U.S. could have the choice to pay with PayPal-owned Venmo in Amazon’s on-line shops utilizing their linked checking account or Venmo steadiness.
  • Amazon continues to spend money on providing Prime members all over the world same-day supply choices, together with Free Identical-Day Supply, the place Prime members can obtain their order the identical day they ordered it, and Quicker Identical-Day Supply, the place Prime members can obtain their order in as quick as 5 hours. Free Identical-Day Supply is now out there in additional than 90 metro areas within the U.S. with the addition of Fort Collins, Colorado, and Provo, Utah; in 58 metro areas in Europe; and in Tokyo, Japan. Quicker Identical-Day Supply is now out there in 24 metro areas within the U.S., with new launches up to now quarter in Austin, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Salt Lake Metropolis, San Antonio, and San Diego.
  • Amazon printed its largest ever Vacation Style print lookbook, which was despatched to thousands and thousands of Prime members providing greater than 1,000 gadgets to select from for his or her vacation purchasing. Prime members within the U.S. who acquired the lookbook had been in a position to browse a curated choice of vogue items and use their telephone to buy gadgets by scanning a QR code.

Leisure

  • The Wheel of Time, starring Rosamund Pike, ranked No. 1 in Nielsen’s rankings of streaming collection the week of its premiere, with clients viewing greater than 1 billion minutes of the collection throughout its first three episodes. Extra Prime Video collection releases included the brand new comedy Harlem, the grownup animated comedy Fairfax, and the ultimate season of the sci-fi fan favourite The Expanse. Prime Video additionally introduced that the primary season of Reacher, a brand new collection primarily based on the worldwide best-selling e-book Killing Flooring by Lee Little one, might be launched on February 4, and that Diabolical, an animated spinoff of the worldwide hit collection The Boys, is about to premiere in 2022.
  • The critically acclaimed and extremely anticipated Prime Video unique movie Being the Ricardos, starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem and directed by Aaron Sorkin, premiered in theaters and on Prime Video; The Tender Bar, starring Ben Affleck and directed by George Clooney, premiered in theaters and on Prime Video; and the fourth and ultimate installment of the family-favorite franchise Lodge Transylvania: Transformania, that includes the vocal skills of Selena Gomez and Andy Samberg, premiered on Prime Video.
  • Prime Video continues to garner important awards recognition for its unique collection and flicks. Being the Ricardos was nominated for 2 Display screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards (feminine actor in a number one function Nicole Kidman and male actor in a number one function Javier Bardem) and three Critics Alternative Awards (lead actress Nicole Kidman, supporting actor J.Okay. Simmons, and unique screenplay Aaron Sorkin). The Tender Bar was nominated for a SAG Award (male actor in a supporting function Ben Affleck). A Hero, the international language characteristic from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, was nominated for a Critics Alternative Award (international language movie) and shortlisted for the Academy Awards (worldwide characteristic). The Underground Railroad, which earned seven Emmy nominations in 2021, was nominated for 3 Critics Alternative Awards (restricted collection, lead actress Thuso Mbedu, and supporting actor William Jackson Harper) and two Impartial Spirit Awards (new scripted collection and feminine performer Thuso Mbedu).
  • The fourth quarter marked Prime Video’s strongest viewership for reside sports activities globally. The 2021-2022 Thursday Night time Soccer season streaming on Prime Video and Twitch delivered the very best common minute viewers, a measurement of the typical variety of gadgets streaming Thursday Night time Soccer at any given minute through the reside sport, since Amazon acquired shared rights in 2017. Within the UK, the Manchester United vs. Arsenal soccer sport on December 2, 2021, turned the most-watched Premier League match ever on the service, with an estimated viewership of greater than 4 million. Plus, thousands and thousands of rugby followers tuned in to the Autumn Nations Sequence, the primary full aggressive worldwide rugby union collection that includes the highest Northern and Southern Hemisphere groups since 2019. In India, Prime Video made its first foray into reside sports activities, streaming cricket matches between New Zealand and Bangladesh.
  • Prime Video debuted 28 native originals internationally, together with Maradona: Blessed Dream (Argentina), Burning (Australia), Inside Edge Season 3 (India), and The Ferragnez – The Sequence (Italy). New regionally produced collection and flicks launched in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK.
  • IMDb TV launched Judy Justice, starring the Honorable Judy Sheindlin, a retired choose of the Manhattan Household Court docket and a TV choose for over 25 years. The collection marked Amazon Studios’ largest-ever episode order for an unique collection with 120 episodes, and it’s the first collection to supply audiences a day by day launch cadence.
  • Amazon Music offered music icon Ye’s first headlining live performance in 5 years, with particular visitor Drake, solely on the Amazon Music Twitch Channel, Prime Video, and the Amazon Music app. In the course of the present, clients within the U.S. might preorder a spread of limited-edition merchandise created by Ye and clothier Demna solely within the Amazon Style retailer and within the Amazon Music app.
  • The Blippi’s Treehouse collection debuted solely on Amazon Youngsters+ in Canada, the UK, and the U.S., bringing one of many world’s hottest child’s characters to Amazon’s children and household subscription service.

Gadgets and Providers

  • Amazon and Stellantis introduced a collection of worldwide, multi-year agreements that may introduce new linked experiences throughout a portfolio of 14 iconic manufacturers, together with Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, and Peugeot. As a part of the collaboration, Amazon will ship software program for Stellantis’ new digital cabin platform, STLA SmartCockpit, in thousands and thousands of autos over the following decade.
  • Amazon introduced it has now bought greater than 150 million Hearth TV gadgets worldwide since launching the gadget in 2014. Amazon launched a brand new in-vehicle expertise for passengers to make use of Alexa or on-screen contact controls to entry greater than 1 million TV episodes and flicks on Hearth TV within the U.S. Hearth TV can even be constructed into BMW’s new 31-inch Theatre Display screen for rear-seat passengers.
  • Amazon introduced a collaboration with Lockheed Martin and Cisco that may ship Alexa into area as part of Artemis I, the primary of a number of NASA missions that may land the primary girl and the primary individual of shade on the Moon. Alexa will be a part of the upcoming mission as part of Callisto, a technology-demonstration payload embedded into NASA’s Orion spacecraft.
  • Amazon launched new options to make Alexa extra proactive, conversational, and private. Prospects can now educate Alexa their preferences, resembling for meals and sports activities, that Alexa will bear in mind when recommending recipes, native eating places, and sports activities scores. Alexa may begin a Routine after detecting actions. For instance, if Alexa detects a beeping washer or the sound of working water, Alexa can alert clients that the laundry is completed or to show off the tap. Prospects utilizing the Echo Present 10 may allow Dialog Mode for a extra pure, back-and-forth interplay with Alexa with no need to repeat the Alexa wake phrase.
  • Amazon launched the Amazon Good Air High quality Monitor in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the U.S. This new air high quality monitor measures the presence of indoor allergens and toxins and makes it easy for patrons to verify the air high quality of their house.
  • Ring launched and began delivery the Ring Alarm Glass Break Sensor, which makes use of synthetic intelligence know-how to observe glass home windows or doorways and alert clients if their glass is damaged.
  • Amazon introduced Amazon Sidewalk Bridge Professional by Ring, which can deliver professional-grade gadget connectivity to much more locations, together with industrial facilities, parks, universities, and wilderness areas. Alongside the announcement, Amazon launched two pilot applications. The primary pilot, with Arizona State College, will concentrate on extending the vary of connectivity for the college’s on-campus web of issues gadgets, together with daylight sensors, temperature sensors, CO2 detectors, and particle counters. The second pilot is with Thingy, a know-how firm that gives data to first responders about wildfires. Thingy will work with Sidewalk Bridge Professional to supply connectivity for Thingy’s air high quality monitoring programs and share data to assist fight wildfires.
  • Amazon launched Ultrasound Movement Detection for patrons to allow Occupancy Routines when movement is detected (or not detected) close to their Echo gadget. With Ultrasound Movement Detection, the gadget can emit an inaudible ultrasound wave to detect motion and provoke a Routine. For instance, with an Occupancy Routine, Alexa can flip off the lights when an individual leaves the room or routinely play music when movement is detected close to an Echo gadget.

Amazon Internet Providers

  • AWS introduced important buyer momentum, with new commitments and migrations from clients throughout many main industries.
    • In a landmark announcement for the monetary companies {industry}, Nasdaq shared its multi-year partnership emigrate its markets to AWS with the purpose of turning into the world’s first absolutely enabled, cloud-based alternate. The transfer contains migrating Nasdaq’s matching engine, the core know-how that makes the market tick.
    • Expertise: Meta, the dad or mum firm of Fb, Instagram, WhatsApp, and different firms, chosen AWS as its long-term strategic cloud supplier to speed up synthetic intelligence analysis and improvement. Qualtrics expanded its relationship with AWS emigrate inside IT programs and customer-facing workloads to the cloud.
    • Automotive: Stellantis chosen AWS as its most popular cloud supplier for car platforms to speed up new digital merchandise and upskill its international workforce. Rivian chosen AWS as its most popular cloud supplier for its capabilities in analytics, compute, containers, and machine studying to speed up the shift to electrical autos and make transportation cleaner and extra sustainable. Aurora chosen AWS as its most popular cloud supplier for machine studying coaching and cloud-based simulation workloads to soundly speed up the event of self-driving car know-how.
    • Retail: Greatest Purchase chosen AWS as its most popular cloud supplier and can migrate enterprise programs and business-critical workloads to the cloud to modernize its know-how platforms and turn out to be a vacation spot for prime engineering expertise. Below Armour chosen AWS as its most popular cloud supplier for SAP to extend resilience, improve safety, and supply extra important enterprise insights. adidas migrated its SAP environments to AWS to digitize core enterprise processes throughout its worth chain and help new enterprise fashions resembling direct-to-consumer. Richemont is shifting its enterprise IT infrastructure to AWS, together with its knowledge facilities in Europe, Hong Kong, and the U.S.
    • Monetary companies: Goldman Sachs and AWS launched a set of cloud-based knowledge and analytics options for monetary establishments, which can cut back the necessity for funding companies to develop and preserve foundational data-integration know-how, decrease the obstacles to entry for accessing superior quantitative analytics throughout international markets, and streamline entry to monetary knowledge from Goldman Sachs. AIG tapped AWS as its most popular public cloud supplier to speed up a large-scale digital transformation. Fannie Mae is utilizing AWS to automate processes, improve IT safety, and innovate new companies that facilitate equitable and sustainable entry to homeownership and reasonably priced rental housing.
    • Well being care and life sciences: Pfizer is working with AWS to enhance how new medicines are developed, manufactured, and distributed for testing in medical trials. Roche is utilizing AWS know-how to facilitate safe analysis collaboration, ship new diagnostic applied sciences, and unlock insights from well being knowledge to ship high-quality, individually tailor-made affected person care. Gilead will use AWS machine studying and analytics to tell medical trial design and advance data-driven choice making to assist refine its drug pipeline.
    • Agriculture: Bayer Crop Science, in collaboration with Bushel and AWS, launched a carbon footprint measurement resolution to assist farmers within the U.S. drive extra sustainable provide chains and mitigate the impression of agriculture on the surroundings.
    • Manufacturing: Siemens Digital Industries Software program expanded its collaboration with AWS to drive adoption of Siemens’ Xcelerator as a Service and assist industrial firms speed up digital transformation within the cloud. Kone chosen AWS to supply international cloud capabilities to assist innovate and scale its linked options and companies for good buildings.
    • Media and leisure: Discovery prolonged its strategic relationship with AWS to supply discovery+ viewers with enhanced, dependable, and customized viewing experiences.
    • Journey and hospitality: United Airways chosen AWS as its most popular cloud supplier to ship customized and scalable companies for its clients and workers, in addition to optimize airport operations.
  • The tenth annual AWS re:Invent convention welcomed over 26,000 in-person attendees and a whole lot of hundreds extra just about. At this 12 months’s occasion, 115 new companies and options had been introduced, together with:
    • AWS Personal 5G, a managed service that helps enterprises arrange and scale non-public 5G cellular networks in days as a substitute of months.
    • AWS Mainframe Modernization, which makes it quicker and simpler for patrons emigrate mainframe and legacy workloads to the cloud and benefit from the superior agility, elasticity, and price financial savings of AWS.
    • Since their introduction in 2020, Graviton2 processors have been rolled out throughout basic objective, burstable, compute optimized, storage optimized, and reminiscence optimized situations—offering clients as much as 40% higher worth efficiency over comparable era x86-based situations. In the present day, 48 of the highest 50 Amazon EC2 clients use Graviton2 situations to ship superior worth efficiency to their clients. At re:Invent 2021, AWS introduced new compute optimized situations that includes Graviton3 processors that may present an extra 25% higher efficiency over comparable Graviton2-based situations.
    • A complete of three new occasion varieties powered by AWS-designed chips, together with compute optimized situations that includes Graviton3 processors that present as much as 25% higher efficiency over comparable Graviton2 situations, new situations powered by AWS Trainium chips that present one of the best worth efficiency and the quickest time to coach most machine studying fashions in Amazon EC2, and storage optimized situations that characteristic new AWS Nitro SSDs for one of the best storage efficiency for I/O-intensive workloads.
    • Six new capabilities for Amazon SageMaker, AWS’s industry-leading machine studying service, that make it even simpler to organize and collect knowledge for machine studying, prepare fashions quicker, optimize the kind and quantity of compute wanted for inference, and increase machine studying to a good broader viewers.
    • AWS Cloud WAN, a managed large space community service that makes it quicker and simpler for enterprises to construct, handle, and monitor a unified international community that seamlessly connects cloud and on-premises environments.
    • AWS IoT TwinMaker, which makes it quicker and simpler for builders to create digital twins of real-world programs like buildings, factories, industrial tools, and manufacturing traces.
    • AWS IoT FleetWise, which makes it simpler and cheaper for automakers to gather, remodel, and switch car knowledge to the cloud in near-real time.
    • New serverless choices for Amazon Redshift, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, and Amazon EMR that make it simpler to investigate knowledge at any scale with out having to configure, scale, or handle the underlying infrastructure.
    • AWS Amplify Studio, a visible improvement surroundings that enables builders to create internet utility person interfaces with minimal coding.
    • 4 new storage companies and capabilities for Amazon S3 Glacier, Amazon FSx, Amazon EBS Snapshots, and AWS Backup that ship extra alternative, cut back prices, and assist clients higher shield their knowledge.
    • New capabilities for Amazon Relational Database Providers, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon DevOps Guru that make it simpler and extra price environment friendly for patrons to customise their database surroundings, run the correct databases for his or her job, and use machine studying to raised detect and diagnose database-related efficiency points.
  • AWS introduced the final availability of Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Suitable Version, a brand new functionality that enables clients to run functions written for Microsoft SQL Server straight in Amazon Aurora with little to no code modifications.
  • AWS introduced the final availability of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a situations, a brand new occasion kind that’s purpose-built for high-performance computing workloads, like genomics, computational fluid dynamics, climate forecasting, molecular dynamics, computational chemistry, monetary threat modeling, computer-aided engineering, and seismic imaging.
  • AWS continued to increase its infrastructure footprint all over the world, opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Area and asserting plans to launch the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Area in late 2023 or early 2024. Newly launched AWS financial impression research estimate that the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Area will create 24,700 direct and oblique jobs by a deliberate funding of $5 billion (IDR$71 trillion) in Indonesia over the following 15 years, and AWS will make investments over $17 billion (CA$21 billion) in Canada by 2037 on the development and operation of its two Canadian infrastructure Areas. Globally, AWS has 84 Availability Zones throughout 26 geographic Areas, with introduced plans to launch 24 extra Availability Zones and eight extra AWS Areas.

Investing in Workers and Our Office

  • Amazon now employs greater than 1.6 million individuals worldwide and continues to spend money on providing industry-leading pay and advantages. This contains a mean beginning wage for front-line workers of greater than $18 per hour within the U.S. and complete advantages for full-time workers. These advantages embrace well being, imaginative and prescient, and dental insurance coverage; a 401(okay) with 50% firm match; as much as 20 weeks paid parental go away; and Amazon’s Profession Alternative program, by which the corporate absolutely funds the price of an worker’s faculty tuition, together with lessons, books, and costs. Amazon additionally expanded its incentives for front-line workers to get vaccinated towards COVID-19 to incorporate $40 for boosters. Every front-line worker is eligible to obtain as much as $120 ($40 per dose), and new hires who be a part of the corporate absolutely vaccinated are given a $100 new-hire bonus.
  • Amazon launched Make Each Day Higher for Workers, a brand new mechanism to assist maintain workers updated on modifications the corporate is making primarily based on worker suggestions. The primary employee-prompted updates rolled out by the corporate included enhanced psychological well being and well-being sources, office know-how enhancements, and help for immigration wants.
  • Amazon helps deliver extra dad and mom again to the workforce by the corporate’s new FamilyFlex program. This system offers larger flexibility and advantages to eligible hourly workers within the U.S., together with scheduling choices, little one care sources, and Anytime Pay for workers trying to entry their earnings with out ready for payday.
  • Amazon launched a brand new device, Mission Juno, to assist army spouses proceed their careers at Amazon when their companions want to maneuver on army orders. Created by army spouses for army spouses, Mission Juno helps a member of Amazon’s workforce discover the identical job or an analogous function close to their new house inside 48 hours.

Supporting Native Communities and the Economic system

  • The Amazon Housing Fairness Fund, the corporate’s $2 billion dedication to creating and preserving reasonably priced properties, launched a $21 million pilot program to speed up alternatives for actual property builders of shade. This system is open to builders targeted on reasonably priced housing initiatives within the Puget Sound area of Washington state; the Arlington, Virginia area; and Nashville, Tennessee. This system contains skilled schooling, coaching, mentorship, and grant funding to assist cowl upfront actual property improvement prices. Individually, the Amazon Housing Fairness Fund additionally dedicated $160 million in low-rate loans to assist protect greater than 1,300 reasonably priced properties for 99 years in Arlington.
  • To additional underscore Amazon’s ongoing dedication to gender fairness, Amazon signed the United Nation’s Ladies’s Empowerment Rules (WEPs). The WEPs, established by the United Nations International Compact and UN Ladies, assist companies collectively promote gender fairness and empower girls within the office and international neighborhood.
  • Amazon introduced a $1 million contribution to the Resilience Fund for Ladies in International Worth Chains. Based in 2020, the fund goals to deal with systemic challenges underlying the profound and urgent wants of ladies through the COVID-19 pandemic with native, women-led options.
  • Amazon donated greater than 300,000 emergency support gadgets, together with clothes, meals, mills, medical provides, shelter tools, and water, to help communities affected by tornadoes within the Midwest and Southern U.S.; wildfires in Colorado; and flooding in Chennai and Uttarakhand, India, and in British Columbia, Canada.
  • Amazon introduced it has now delivered greater than 20 million meals to weak households disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 in additional than 25 U.S. cities and communities in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the UK. Since March 2020, Amazon has volunteered its supply community to help meals banks and neighborhood organizations by delivering groceries and pre-packaged meals to hard-hit areas.
  • Amazon launched financial impression figures in France, Italy, Spain, and the UK:
    • In France, Amazon invested over €11 billion between 2010 and 2020. Since launching Amazon.fr in 2000, over 14,500 everlasting jobs have been created, and there are over 13,000 small and medium-sized companies promoting on Amazon in France, leading to greater than 25,000 oblique jobs to run the net companies.
    • In Italy, Amazon has invested €8.7 billion between 2010 and 2020. Since launching Amazon.it in 2010, over 12,500 everlasting jobs have been created, and there are over 18,000 small and medium-sized companies promoting on Amazon in Italy, leading to greater than 50,000 oblique jobs to run the net companies.
    • In Spain, Amazon invested over €6.8 billion between 2010 and 2020. Since launching Amazon.es in 2011, over 15,000 everlasting jobs have been created, and there are over 12,000 small and medium-sized companies promoting on Amazon in Spain, leading to greater than 30,000 oblique jobs to run the net companies.
    • Within the UK, Amazon has invested £32 billion between 2010 and 2020. Since launching Amazon.co.uk in 1998, over 70,000 everlasting jobs have been created, and there are over 65,000 small and medium-sized companies promoting on Amazon within the UK, leading to greater than 175,000 oblique jobs to run the net companies.
  • Amazon expanded entry to free cloud expertise coaching as a part of AWS’s mission to coach 29 million individuals by 2025. These studying applications and experiences embrace the launch of AWS Ability Builder, a brand new digital studying expertise; the addition of AWS programs to the Amazon.com web site; the enlargement of the AWS re/Begin international reskilling program; and the opening of the AWS Expertise Middle in Seattle, Amazon’s first devoted, in-person cloud studying area.
  • Amazon introduced new initiatives to make machine studying extra accessible for anybody fascinated about studying and experimenting with the know-how. The AWS Synthetic Intelligence & Machine Studying Scholarship is a $10 million schooling and scholarship program geared toward getting ready underrepresented and underserved college students globally for careers in machine studying. Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab makes it simple to shortly arrange a machine studying improvement surroundings for studying and experimentation for free of charge.

Defending the Planet

  • Amazon welcomed 16 new firms to The Local weather Pledge, together with Snap Inc. and Fortescue Metals Group, bringing the overall variety of firms which have pledged to attain net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 to 217. Pledge signatories generated over $1.9 trillion in international annual income in 2020 and have over 7 million workers throughout 29 industries in 24 international locations.
  • Amazon introduced a spread of initiatives through the United Nations Local weather Change Convention (COP26) to combat local weather change. The initiatives embrace:
    • Mobilizing $1 billion to guard tropical forests through the LEAF (Reducing Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance) Coalition, an formidable public-private initiative designed to guard tropical forests and help sustainable improvement.
    • Becoming a member of the First Movers Coalition, a partnership between the World Financial Discussion board and the U.S. Workplace of the Particular Presidential Envoy for Local weather John Kerry to advertise shopping for low-carbon merchandise.
    • Collaborating within the Company Clear Power Demand Initiative to advertise international locations and corporations working collectively to advance shared clear vitality objectives by leveraging company clear vitality commitments.
    • Becoming a member of the Sustainable Aviation Patrons Alliance and serving to to discovered the Aviators Group to speed up the transition to net-zero emissions air transport.
  • Amazon acquired the Terra Carta Seal Award from His Royal Highness Prince Charles in recognition of the corporate’s local weather management. The Terra Carta Seal is awarded to firms that maintain a management place inside their {industry} and which have credible transition roadmaps underpinned by globally acknowledged, scientific metrics for attaining net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 or earlier.
  • Amazon introduced 18 new utility-scale wind and photo voltaic vitality initiatives in Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the U.S., representing 2 gigawatts of latest clear vitality capability and rising Amazon’s renewable vitality procurement by 40% in a single 12 months. With 274 renewable vitality initiatives, Amazon continues to be the most important company purchaser of renewable vitality globally and is on a path to energy 100% of its enterprise operations with renewable vitality by 2025—5 years forward of its 2030 goal.

Monetary Steerage

The next forward-looking statements mirror Amazon.com’s expectations as of February 3, 2022, and are topic to substantial uncertainty. Our outcomes are inherently unpredictable and could also be materially affected by many elements, resembling uncertainty concerning the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, fluctuations in international alternate charges, modifications in international financial situations and buyer demand and spending, inflation, labor market and international provide chain constraints, world occasions, the speed of development of the Web, on-line commerce, and cloud companies, and the assorted elements detailed beneath. This steering displays our estimates as of February 3, 2022 concerning the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations in addition to the impact of different elements mentioned above.

First Quarter 2022 Steerage

  • Internet gross sales are anticipated to be between $112.0 billion and $117.0 billion, or to develop between 3% and eight% in contrast with first quarter 2021. This steering anticipates an unfavorable impression of roughly 150 foundation factors from international alternate charges.
  • Working earnings is anticipated to be between $3.0 billion and $6.0 billion, in contrast with $8.9 billion in first quarter 2021. This steering contains roughly $1.0 billion decrease depreciation expense as a consequence of will increase within the estimated helpful lives of our servers and networking tools starting on January 1, 2022.
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AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Money Flows

(in thousands and thousands)

(unaudited)

 

 

Three Months Ended
December 31,

 

Twelve Months Ended
December 31,

 

2020

 

2021

 

2020

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

$

30,202

 

 

$

30,177

 

 

$

36,410

 

 

$

42,377

 

OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet earnings

 

7,222

 

 

 

14,323

 

 

 

21,331

 

 

 

33,364

 

Changes to reconcile web earnings to web money from working actions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization of property and tools and capitalized content material prices, working lease property, and different

 

7,618

 

 

 

9,802

 

 

 

25,251

 

 

 

34,296

 

Inventory-based compensation

 

2,562

 

 

 

3,680

 

 

 

9,208

 

 

 

12,757

 

Different working expense (earnings), web

 

(487

)

 

 

65

 

 

 

(71

)

 

 

137

 

Different expense (earnings), web

 

(1,327

)

 

 

(11,932

)

 

 

(2,582

)

 

 

(14,306

)

Deferred earnings taxes

 

(1,636

)

 

 

(3,623

)

 

 

(554

)

 

 

(310

)

Modifications in working property and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventories

 

329

 

 

 

(1,915

)

 

 

(2,849

)

 

 

(9,487

)

Accounts receivable, web and different

 

(4,560

)

 

 

(6,556

)

 

 

(8,169

)

 

 

(18,163

)

Accounts payable

 

13,249

 

 

 

7,989

 

 

 

17,480

 

 

 

3,602

 

Accrued bills and different

 

7,127

 

 

 

9,333

 

 

 

5,754

 

 

 

2,123

 

Unearned income

 

333

 

 

 

920

 

 

 

1,265

 

 

 

2,314

 

Internet money supplied by (utilized in) working actions

 

30,430

 

 

 

22,086

 

 

 

66,064

 

 

 

46,327

 

INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases of property and tools

 

(14,824

)

 

 

(18,935

)

 

 

(40,140

)

 

 

(61,053

)

Proceeds from property and tools gross sales and incentives

 

1,629

 

 

 

2,465

 

 

 

5,096

 

 

 

5,657

 

Acquisitions, web of money acquired, and different

 

(380

)

 

 

(381

)

 

 

(2,325

)

 

 

(1,985

)

Gross sales and maturities of marketable securities

 

17,338

 

 

 

12,537

 

 

 

50,237

 

 

 

59,384

 

Purchases of marketable securities

 

(20,801

)

 

 

(8,266

)

 

 

(72,479

)

 

 

(60,157

)

Internet money supplied by (utilized in) investing actions

 

(17,038

)

 

 

(12,580

)

 

 

(59,611

)

 

 

(58,154

)

FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from short-term debt, and different

 

2,434

 

 

 

2,667

 

 

 

6,796

 

 

 

7,956

 

Repayments of short-term debt, and different

 

(2,291

)

 

 

(2,659

)

 

 

(6,177

)

 

 

(7,753

)

Proceeds from long-term debt

 

531

 

 

 

200

 

 

 

10,525

 

 

 

19,003

 

Repayments of long-term debt

 

(113

)

 

 

(1,001

)

 

 

(1,553

)

 

 

(1,590

)

Principal repayments of finance leases

 

(2,368

)

 

 

(2,260

)

 

 

(10,642

)

 

 

(11,163

)

Principal repayments of financing obligations

 

(9

)

 

 

(47

)

 

 

(53

)

 

 

(162

)

Internet money supplied by (utilized in) financing actions

 

(1,816

)

 

 

(3,100

)

 

 

(1,104

)

 

 

6,291

 

International forex impact on money, money equivalents, and restricted money

 

599

 

 

 

(106

)

 

 

618

 

 

 

(364

)

Internet enhance (lower) in money, money equivalents, and restricted money

 

12,175

 

 

 

6,300

 

 

 

5,967

 

 

 

(5,900

)

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

$

42,377

 

 

$

36,477

 

 

$

42,377

 

 

$

36,477

 

SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money paid for curiosity on debt

$

201

 

 

$

367

 

 

$

916

 

 

$

1,098

 

Money paid for working leases

 

1,201

 

 

 

1,693

 

 

 

4,475

 

 

 

6,722

 

Money paid for curiosity on finance leases

 

128

 

 

 

114

 

 

 

612

 

 

 

521

 

Money paid for curiosity on financing obligations

 

31

 

 

 

37

 

 

 

102

 

 

 

153

 

Money paid for earnings taxes, web of refunds

 

420

 

 

 

334

 

 

 

1,713

 

 

 

3,688

 

Belongings acquired below working leases

 

4,347

 

 

 

5,808

 

 

 

16,217

 

 

 

25,369

 

Property and tools acquired below finance leases

 

2,695

 

 

 

1,608

 

 

 

11,588

 

 

 

7,061

 

Property and tools acquired below build-to-suit preparations

 

1,039

 

 

 

1,914

 

 

 

2,267

 

 

 

5,616

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(in thousands and thousands, besides per share knowledge)

(unaudited)

 

 

Three Months Ended
December 31,

 

Twelve Months Ended
December 31,

 

2020

 

2021

 

2020

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet product gross sales

$

71,056

 

 

$

71,416

 

 

$

215,915

 

 

$

241,787

 

Internet service gross sales

 

54,499

 

 

 

65,996

 

 

 

170,149

 

 

 

228,035

 

Complete web gross sales

 

125,555

 

 

 

137,412

 

 

 

386,064

 

 

 

469,822

 

Working bills:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Value of gross sales

 

79,284

 

 

 

82,835

 

 

 

233,307

 

 

 

272,344

 

Success

 

18,474

 

 

 

22,445

 

 

 

58,517

 

 

 

75,111

 

Expertise and content material

 

12,049

 

 

 

15,313

 

 

 

42,740

 

 

 

56,052

 

Advertising

 

7,403

 

 

 

10,810

 

 

 

22,008

 

 

 

32,551

 

Basic and administrative

 

1,968

 

 

 

2,525

 

 

 

6,668

 

 

 

8,823

 

Different working expense (earnings), web

 

(496

)

 

 

24

 

 

 

(75

)

 

 

62

 

Complete working bills

 

118,682

 

 

 

133,952

 

 

 

363,165

 

 

 

444,943

 

Working earnings

 

6,873

 

 

 

3,460

 

 

 

22,899

 

 

 

24,879

 

Curiosity earnings

 

100

 

 

 

118

 

 

 

555

 

 

 

448

 

Curiosity expense

 

(414

)

 

 

(482

)

 

 

(1,647

)

 

 

(1,809

)

Different earnings (expense), web

 

1,206

 

 

 

11,838

 

 

 

2,371

 

 

 

14,633

 

Complete non-operating earnings (expense)

 

892

 

 

 

11,474

 

 

 

1,279

 

 

 

13,272

 

Earnings earlier than earnings taxes

 

7,765

 

 

 

14,934

 

 

 

24,178

 

 

 

38,151

 

Provision for earnings taxes

 

(566

)

 

 

(612

)

 

 

(2,863

)

 

 

(4,791

)

Fairness-method funding exercise, web of tax

 

23

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

4

 

Internet earnings

$

7,222

 

 

$

14,323

 

 

$

21,331

 

 

$

33,364

 

Primary earnings per share

$

14.38

 

 

$

28.21

 

 

$

42.64

 

 

$

65.96

 

Diluted earnings per share

$

14.09

 

 

$

27.75

 

 

$

41.83

 

 

$

64.81

 

Weighted-average shares utilized in computation of earnings per share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primary

 

502

 

 

 

508

 

 

 

500

 

 

 

506

 

Diluted

 

513

 

 

 

516

 

 

 

510

 

 

 

515

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Complete Earnings

(in thousands and thousands)

(unaudited)

 

 

Three Months Ended
December 31,

 

Twelve Months Ended
December 31,

 

2020

 

2021

 

2020

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet earnings

$

7,222

 

 

$

14,323

 

 

$

21,331

 

 

$

33,364

 

Different complete earnings (loss):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International forex translation changes, web of tax of $(34), $12, $(36) and $47

 

820

 

 

 

(67

)

 

 

561

 

 

 

(819

)

Internet change in unrealized positive aspects (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized positive aspects (losses), web of tax of $(12), $41, $(83) and $72

 

34

 

 

 

(234

)

 

 

273

 

 

 

(343

)

Reclassification adjustment for losses (positive aspects) included in “Different earnings (expense), web,” web of tax of $3, $0, $8 and $13

 

(5

)

 

 

 

 

 

(28

)

 

 

(34

)

Internet unrealized positive aspects (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities

 

29

 

 

 

(234

)

 

 

245

 

 

 

(377

)

Complete different complete earnings (loss)

 

849

 

 

 

(301

)

 

 

806

 

 

 

(1,196

)

Complete earnings

$

8,071

 

 

$

14,022

 

 

$

22,137

 

 

$

32,168

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Section Info

(in thousands and thousands)

(unaudited)

 

 

Three Months Ended
December 31,

 

Twelve Months Ended
December 31,

 

2020

 

2021

 

2020

 

2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet gross sales

$

75,346

 

 

$

82,360

 

 

$

236,282

 

 

$

279,833

 

Working bills

 

72,400

 

 

 

82,566

 

 

 

227,631

 

 

 

272,562

 

Working earnings (loss)

$

2,946

 

 

$

(206

)

 

$

8,651

 

 

$

7,271

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worldwide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet gross sales

$

37,467

 

 

$

37,272

 

 

$

104,412

 

 

$

127,787

 

Working bills

 

37,104

 

 

 

38,899

 

 

 

103,695

 

 

 

128,711

 

Working earnings (loss)

$

363

 

 

$

(1,627

)

 

$

717

 

 

$

(924

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AWS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet gross sales

$

12,742

 

 

$

17,780

 

 

$

45,370

 

 

$

62,202

 

Working bills

 

9,178

 

 

 

12,487

 

 

 

31,839

 

 

 

43,670

 

Working earnings

$

3,564

 

 

$

5,293

 

 

$

13,531

 

 

$

18,532

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet gross sales

$

125,555

 

 

$

137,412

 

 

$

386,064

 

 

$

469,822

 

Working bills

 

118,682

 

 

 

133,952

 

 

 

363,165

 

 

 

444,943

 

Working earnings

 

6,873

 

 

 

3,460

 

 

 

22,899

 

 

 

24,879

 

Complete non-operating earnings (expense)

 

892

 

 

 

11,474

 

 

 

1,279

 

 

 

13,272

 

Provision for earnings taxes

 

(566

)

 

 

(612

)

 

 

(2,863

)

 

 

(4,791

)

Fairness-method funding exercise, web of tax

 

23

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

4

 

Internet earnings

$

7,222

 

 

$

14,323

 

 

$

21,331

 

 

$

33,364

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section Highlights:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y/Y web gross sales development:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America

 

40

%

 

 

9

%

 

 

38

%

 

 

18

%

Worldwide

 

57

 

 

 

(1

)

 

 

40

 

 

 

22

 

AWS

 

28

 

 

 

40

 

 

 

30

 

 

 

37

 

Consolidated

 

44

 

 

 

9

 

 

 

38

 

 

 

22

 

Internet gross sales combine:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America

 

60

%

 

 

60

%

 

 

61

%

 

 

60

%

Worldwide

 

30

 

 

 

27

 

 

 

27

 

 

 

27

 

AWS

 

10

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

12

 

 

 

13

 

Consolidated

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Steadiness Sheets

(in thousands and thousands, besides per share knowledge)

(unaudited)

 

 

December 31, 2020

 

December 31, 2021

 

 

 

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

Present property:

 

 

 

Money and money equivalents

$

42,122

 

 

$

36,220

 

Marketable securities

 

42,274

 

 

 

59,829

 

Inventories

 

23,795

 

 

 

32,640

 

Accounts receivable, web and different

 

24,542

 

 

 

32,891

 

Complete present property

 

132,733

 

 

 

161,580

 

Property and tools, web

 

113,114

 

 

 

160,281

 

Working leases

 

37,553

 

 

 

56,082

 

Goodwill

 

15,017

 

 

 

15,371

 

Different property

 

22,778

 

 

 

27,235

 

Complete property

$

321,195

 

 

$

420,549

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

 

Present liabilities:

 

 

 

Accounts payable

$

72,539

 

 

$

78,664

 

Accrued bills and different

 

44,138

 

 

 

51,775

 

Unearned income

 

9,708

 

 

 

11,827

 

Complete present liabilities

 

126,385

 

 

 

142,266

 

Lengthy-term lease liabilities

 

52,573

 

 

 

67,651

 

Lengthy-term debt

 

31,816

 

 

 

48,744

 

Different long-term liabilities

 

17,017

 

 

 

23,643

 

Commitments and contingencies

 

 

 

Stockholders’ fairness:

 

 

 

Most popular inventory, $0.01 par worth:

 

 

 

Approved shares — 500

 

 

 

Issued and excellent shares — none

 

 

 

 

 

Widespread inventory, $0.01 par worth:

 

 

 

Approved shares — 5,000

 

 

 

Issued shares — 527 and 532

 

 

 

Excellent shares — 503 and 509

 

5

 

 

 

5

 

Treasury inventory, at price

 

(1,837

)

 

 

(1,837

)

Extra paid-in capital

 

42,865

 

 

 

55,538

 

Collected different complete earnings (loss)

 

(180

)

 

 

(1,376

)

Retained earnings

 

52,551

 

 

 

85,915

 

Complete stockholders’ fairness

 

93,404

 

 

 

138,245

 

Complete liabilities and stockholders’ fairness

$

321,195

 

 

$

420,549

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Supplemental Monetary Info and Enterprise Metrics

(in thousands and thousands, besides per share knowledge)

(unaudited)

 

 

Q3 2020

This fall 2020

Q1 2021

Q2 2021

Q3 2021

This fall 2021

Y/Y %

Change

Money Flows and Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working money move — trailing twelve months (TTM)

$

55,292

 

 

$

66,064

 

 

$

67,213

 

 

$

59,322

 

 

$

54,671

 

 

$

46,327

 

 

(30

)

%

Working money move — TTM Y/Y development

 

56

 

%

 

72

 

%

 

69

 

%

 

16

 

%

 

(1

)

%

 

(30

)

%

N/A

Purchases of property and tools, web of proceeds from gross sales and incentives — TTM

$

25,791

 

 

$

35,044

 

 

$

40,803

 

 

$

47,176

 

 

$

52,119

 

 

$

55,396

 

 

58

 

%

Principal repayments of finance leases — TTM

$

11,054

 

 

$

10,642

 

 

$

11,448

 

 

$

11,435

 

 

$

11,271

 

 

$

11,163

 

 

5

 

%

Principal repayments of financing obligations — TTM

$

68

 

 

$

53

 

 

$

103

 

 

$

116

 

 

$

124

 

 

$

162

 

 

209

 

%

Gear acquired below finance leases — TTM (1)

$

11,116

 

 

$

9,104

 

 

$

8,936

 

 

$

7,295

 

 

$

5,738

 

 

$

4,422

 

 

(51

)

%

Principal repayments of all different finance leases — TTM (2)

$

413

 

 

$

427

 

 

$

525

 

 

$

550

 

 

$

582

 

 

$

687

 

 

61

 

%

Free money move — TTM (3)

$

29,501

 

 

$

31,020

 

 

$

26,410

 

 

$

12,146

 

 

$

2,552

 

 

$

(9,069

 

)

(129

)

%

Free money move much less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations — TTM (4)

$

18,379

 

 

$

20,325

 

 

$

14,859

 

 

$

595

 

 

$

(8,843

)

 

$

(20,394

)

 

(200

)

%

Free money move much less tools finance leases and principal repayments of all different finance leases and financing obligations — TTM (5)

$

17,904

 

 

$

21,436

 

 

$

16,846

 

 

$

4,185

 

 

$

(3,892

)

 

$

(14,340

)

 

(167

)

%

Widespread shares and stock-based awards excellent

 

518

 

 

 

518

 

 

 

519

 

 

 

522

 

 

 

523

 

 

 

523

 

 

1

 

%

Widespread shares excellent

 

502

 

 

 

503

 

 

 

504

 

 

 

506

 

 

 

507

 

 

 

509

 

 

1

 

%

Inventory-based awards excellent

 

16

 

 

 

15

 

 

 

15

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

16

 

 

 

14

 

 

(8

)

%

Inventory-based awards excellent — % of frequent shares excellent

 

3.3

 

%

 

3.0

 

%

 

2.9

 

%

 

3.1

 

%

 

3.1

 

%

 

2.8

 

%

N/A

Outcomes of Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worldwide (WW) web gross sales

$

96,145

 

 

$

125,555

 

 

$

108,518

 

 

$

113,080

 

 

$

110,812

 

 

$

137,412

 

 

9

 

%

WW web gross sales — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

36

 

%

 

42

 

%

 

41

 

%

 

24

 

%

 

15

 

%

 

10

 

%

N/A

WW web gross sales — TTM

$

347,946

 

 

$

386,064

 

 

$

419,130

 

 

$

443,298

 

 

$

457,965

 

 

$

469,822

 

 

22

 

%

WW web gross sales — TTM Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

31

 

%

 

37

 

%

 

40

 

%

 

36

 

%

 

30

 

%

 

21

 

%

N/A

Working earnings

$

6,194

 

 

$

6,873

 

 

$

8,865

 

 

$

7,702

 

 

$

4,852

 

 

$

3,460

 

 

(50

%

F/X impression — favorable (unfavorable)

$

133

 

 

$

142

 

 

$

107

 

 

$

7

 

 

$

(20

)

 

$

57

 

 

N/A

Working earnings — Y/Y development (decline), excluding F/X

 

92

 

%

 

74

 

%

 

120

 

%

 

32

 

%

 

(21

)

%

 

(50

)

%

N/A

Working margin — % of WW web gross sales

 

6.4

 

%

 

5.5

 

%

 

8.2

 

%

 

6.8

 

%

 

4.4

 

%

 

2.5

 

%

N/A

Working earnings — TTM

$

19,905

 

 

$

22,899

 

 

$

27,775

 

 

$

29,634

 

 

$

28,292

 

 

$

24,879

 

 

9

 

%

Working earnings — TTM Y/Y development (decline), excluding F/X

 

36

 

%

 

54

 

%

 

93

 

%

 

73

 

%

 

41

 

%

 

8

 

%

N/A

Working margin — TTM % of WW web gross sales

 

5.7

 

%

 

5.9

 

%

 

6.6

 

%

 

6.7

 

%

 

6.2

 

%

 

5.3

 

%

N/A

Internet earnings

$

6,331

 

 

$

7,222

 

 

$

8,107

 

 

$

7,778

 

 

$

3,156

 

 

$

14,323

 

 

98

 

%

Internet earnings per diluted share

$

12.37

 

 

$

14.09

 

 

$

15.79

 

 

$

15.12

 

 

$

6.12

 

 

$

27.75

 

 

97

 

%

Internet earnings — TTM

$

17,377

 

 

$

21,331

 

 

$

26,903

 

 

$

29,438

 

 

$

26,263

 

 

$

33,364

 

 

56

 

%

Internet earnings per diluted share — TTM

$

34.21

 

 

$

41.83

 

 

$

52.59

 

 

$

57.47

 

 

$

51.14

 

 

$

64.81

 

 

55

 

%

_______________________

(1)

For the twelve months ended December 31, 2020 and 2021, this quantity pertains to tools included in “Property and tools acquired below finance leases” of $11,588 million and $7,061 million.

(2)

For the twelve months ended December 31, 2020 and 2021, this quantity pertains to property included in “Principal repayments of finance leases” of $10,642 million and $11,163 million.

(3)

Free money move is money move from operations diminished by “Purchases of property and tools, web of proceeds from gross sales and incentives.”

(4)

Free money move much less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations is free money move diminished by “Principal repayments of finance leases” and “Principal repayments of financing obligations.”

(5)

Free money move much less tools finance leases and principal repayments of all different finance leases and financing obligations is free money move diminished by tools acquired below finance leases, which is included in “Property and tools acquired below finance leases,” principal repayments of all different finance lease liabilities, which is included in “Principal repayments of finance leases,” and “Principal repayments of financing obligations.”

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Supplemental Monetary Info and Enterprise Metrics

(in thousands and thousands)

(unaudited)

 

 

Q3 2020

This fall 2020

Q1 2021

Q2 2021

Q3 2021

This fall 2021

Y/Y %

Change

Segments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America Section:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet gross sales

$

59,373

 

 

$

75,346

 

 

$

64,366

 

 

$

67,550

 

 

$

65,557

 

 

$

82,360

 

 

9

 

%

Internet gross sales — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

39

 

%

 

40

 

%

 

39

 

%

 

21

 

%

 

10

 

%

 

9

 

%

N/A

Internet gross sales — TTM

$

214,606

 

 

$

236,282

 

 

$

254,521

 

 

$

266,635

 

 

$

272,819

 

 

$

279,833

 

 

18

 

%

Working earnings

$

2,252

 

 

$

2,946

 

 

$

3,450

 

 

$

3,147

 

 

$

880

 

 

$

(206

)

 

(107

)

%

F/X impression — favorable (unfavorable)

$

 

 

$

7

 

 

$

8

 

 

$

34

 

 

$

14

 

 

$

32

 

 

N/A

Working earnings — Y/Y development (decline), excluding F/X

 

76

 

%

 

55

 

%

 

162

 

%

 

45

 

%

 

(62

)

%

 

(108

)

%

N/A

Working margin — % of North America web gross sales

 

3.8

 

%

 

3.9

 

%

 

5.4

 

%

 

4.7

 

%

 

1.3

 

%

 

(0.2

)

%

N/A

Working earnings — TTM

$

7,604

 

 

$

8,651

 

 

$

10,789

 

 

$

11,795

 

 

$

10,423

 

 

$

7,271

 

 

(16

)

%

Working margin — TTM % of North America web gross sales

 

3.5

 

%

 

3.7

 

%

 

4.2

 

%

 

4.4

 

%

 

3.8

 

%

 

2.6

 

%

N/A

Worldwide Section:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet gross sales

$

25,171

 

 

$

37,467

 

 

$

30,649

 

 

$

30,721

 

 

$

29,145

 

 

$

37,272

 

 

(1

)

%

Internet gross sales — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

33

 

%

 

50

 

%

 

50

 

%

 

26

 

%

 

15

 

%

 

3

 

%

N/A

Internet gross sales — TTM

$

90,758

 

 

$

104,412

 

 

$

115,955

 

 

$

124,008

 

 

$

127,982

 

 

$

127,787

 

 

22

 

%

Working earnings (loss)

$

407

 

 

$

363

 

 

$

1,252

 

 

$

362

 

 

$

(911

)

 

$

(1,627

)

 

(549

)

%

F/X impression — favorable (unfavorable)

$

152

 

 

$

232

 

 

$

270

 

 

$

199

 

 

$

24

 

 

$

(58

)

 

N/A

Working earnings/loss — Y/Y development (decline), excluding F/X

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

347

 

%

 

(53

%

 

(330

)

%

 

(533

)

%

N/A

Working margin — % of Worldwide web gross sales

 

1.6

 

%

 

1.0

 

%

 

4.1

 

%

 

1.2

 

%

 

(3.1

)

%

 

(4.4

)

%

N/A

Working earnings (loss) — TTM

$

(262

)

 

$

717

 

 

$

2,367

 

 

$

2,384

 

 

$

1,066

 

 

$

(924

)

 

(229

)

%

Working margin — TTM % of Worldwide web gross sales

 

(0.3

 

) %

 

0.7

 

%

 

2.0

 

%

 

1.9

 

%

 

0.8

 

%

 

(0.7

)

%

N/A

AWS Section:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Internet gross sales

$

11,601

 

 

$

12,742

 

 

$

13,503

 

 

$

14,809

 

 

$

16,110

 

 

$

17,780

 

 

40

 

%

Internet gross sales — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

29

 

%

 

28

 

%

 

32

 

%

 

37

 

%

 

39

 

%

 

40

 

%

N/A

Internet gross sales — TTM

$

42,582

 

 

$

45,370

 

 

$

48,654

 

 

$

52,655

 

 

$

57,164

 

 

$

62,202

 

 

37

 

%

Working earnings

$

3,535

 

 

$

3,564

 

 

$

4,163

 

 

$

4,193

 

 

$

4,883

 

 

$

5,293

 

 

48

 

%

F/X impression — favorable (unfavorable)

$

(20

)

 

$

(96

)

 

$

(171

)

 

$

(226

)

 

$

(58

)

 

$

83

 

 

N/A

Working earnings — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

57

 

%

 

41

 

%

 

41

 

%

 

32

 

%

 

40

 

%

 

46

 

%

N/A

Working margin — % of AWS web gross sales

 

30.5

 

%

 

28.0

 

%

 

30.8

 

%

 

28.3

 

%

 

30.3

 

%

 

29.8

 

%

N/A

Working earnings — TTM

$

12,563

 

 

$

13,531

 

 

$

14,619

 

 

$

15,455

 

 

$

16,803

 

 

$

18,532

 

 

37

 

%

Working margin — TTM % of AWS web gross sales

 

29.5

 

%

 

29.8

 

%

 

30.0

 

%

 

29.4

 

%

 

29.4

 

%

 

29.8

 

%

N/A

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Supplemental Monetary Info and Enterprise Metrics

(in thousands and thousands, besides worker knowledge)

(unaudited)

 

 

Q3 2020

This fall 2020

Q1 2021

Q2 2021

Q3 2021

This fall 2021

Y/Y %

Change

Internet Gross sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On-line shops (1)

$

48,350

 

 

$

66,451

 

 

$

52,901

 

 

$

53,157

 

 

$

49,942

 

 

$

66,075

 

 

(1

)

%

On-line shops — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

37

 

%

 

43

 

%

 

41

 

%

 

13

 

%

 

3

 

%

 

1

 

%

N/A

Bodily shops (2)

$

3,788

 

 

$

4,022

 

 

$

3,920

 

 

$

4,198

 

 

$

4,269

 

 

$

4,688

 

 

17

 

%

Bodily shops — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

(10

)

%

 

(7

)

%

 

(16

)

%

 

10

 

%

 

12

 

%

 

16

 

%

N/A

Third-party vendor companies (3)

$

20,436

 

 

$

27,327

 

 

$

23,709

 

 

$

25,085

 

 

$

24,252

 

 

$

30,320

 

 

11

 

%

Third-party vendor companies — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

53

 

%

 

54

 

%

 

60

 

%

 

34

 

%

 

18

 

%

 

12

 

%

N/A

Subscription companies (4)

$

6,572

 

 

$

7,061

 

 

$

7,580

 

 

$

7,917

 

 

$

8,148

 

 

$

8,123

 

 

15

 

%

Subscription companies — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

32

 

%

 

34

 

%

 

34

 

%

 

28

 

%

 

23

 

%

 

16

 

%

N/A

Promoting companies (5)

$

4,982

 

 

$

7,350

 

 

$

6,381

 

 

$

7,451

 

 

$

7,612

 

 

$

9,716

 

 

32

 

%

Promoting companies — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

52

 

%

 

66

 

%

 

76

 

%

 

88

 

%

 

52

 

%

 

33

 

%

N/A

AWS

$

11,601

 

 

$

12,742

 

 

$

13,503

 

 

$

14,809

 

 

$

16,110

 

 

$

17,780

 

 

40

 

%

AWS — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

29

 

%

 

28

 

%

 

32

 

%

 

37

 

%

 

39

 

%

 

40

 

%

N/A

Different (6)

$

416

 

 

$

602

 

 

$

524

 

 

$

463

 

 

$

479

 

 

$

710

 

 

18

 

%

Different — Y/Y development, excluding F/X

 

18

 

%

 

42

 

%

 

49

 

%

 

34

 

%

 

15

 

%

 

19

 

%

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventory-based Compensation Expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Value of gross sales

$

75

 

 

$

91

 

 

$

90

 

 

$

145

 

 

$

126

 

 

$

179

 

 

96

 

%

Success

$

316

 

 

$

364

 

 

$

342

 

 

$

566

 

 

$

473

 

 

$

565

 

 

55

 

%

Expertise and content material

$

1,267

 

 

$

1,412

 

 

$

1,228

 

 

$

1,887

 

 

$

1,627

 

 

$

1,903

 

 

35

 

%

Advertising

$

446

 

 

$

476

 

 

$

456

 

 

$

691

 

 

$

657

 

 

$

726

 

 

52

 

%

Basic and administrative

$

184

 

 

$

219

 

 

$

190

 

 

$

302

 

 

$

297

 

 

$

307

 

 

41

 

%

Complete stock-based compensation expense

$

2,288

 

 

$

2,562

 

 

$

2,306

 

 

$

3,591

 

 

$

3,180

 

 

$

3,680

 

 

44

 

%

Different

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WW delivery prices

$

15,063

 

 

$

21,465

 

 

$

17,162

 

 

$

17,747

 

 

$

18,108

 

 

$

23,656

 

 

10

 

%

WW delivery prices — Y/Y development

 

57

 

%

 

67

 

%

 

57

 

%

 

30

 

%

 

20

 

%

 

10

 

%

N/A

WW paid models — Y/Y development (7)

 

46

 

%

 

47

 

%

 

44

 

%

 

15

 

%

 

8

 

%

 

3

 

%

N/A

WW vendor unit combine — % of WW paid models (7)

 

54

 

%

 

55

 

%

 

55

 

%

 

56

 

%

 

56

 

%

 

56

 

%

N/A

Workers (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & non permanent personnel)

 

1,125,300

 

 

 

1,298,000

 

 

 

1,271,000

 

 

 

1,335,000

 

 

 

1,468,000

 

 

 

1,608,000

 

 

24

 

%

Workers (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & non permanent personnel) — Y/Y development

 

50

 

%

 

63

 

%

 

51

 

%

 

52

 

%

 

30

 

%

 

24

 

%

N/A

_______________________

(1)

Contains product gross sales and digital media content material the place we file income gross. We leverage our retail infrastructure to supply a wide array of consumable and sturdy items that features media merchandise out there in each a bodily and digital format, resembling books, movies, video games, music, and software program. These product gross sales embrace digital merchandise bought on a transactional foundation. Digital product subscriptions that present limitless viewing or utilization rights are included in “Subscription companies.”

(2)

Contains product gross sales the place our clients bodily choose gadgets in a retailer. Gross sales to clients who order items on-line for supply or pickup at our bodily shops are included in “On-line shops.”

(3)

Contains commissions and any associated success and delivery charges, and different third-party vendor companies.

(4)

Contains annual and month-to-month charges related to Amazon Prime memberships, in addition to digital video, audiobook, digital music, e-book, and different non-AWS subscription companies.

(5)

Contains gross sales of promoting companies to sellers, distributors, publishers, authors, and others, by applications resembling sponsored adverts, show, and video promoting.

(6)

Contains gross sales associated to varied different service choices. “Different” gross sales excludes Promoting companies gross sales, that are reported individually above.

(7)

Excludes the impression of Entire Meals Market.

Amazon.com, Inc.
Sure Definitions

Buyer Accounts

  • References to clients imply buyer accounts established when a buyer locations an order by one in all our shops. Buyer accounts exclude sure clients, together with clients related to sure of our acquisitions, Amazon Funds clients, AWS clients, and the shoppers of choose firms with whom we have now a know-how alliance or advertising and marketing and promotional relationship. Prospects are thought of energetic after they have positioned an order through the previous twelve-month interval.

Vendor Accounts

  • References to sellers means vendor accounts, that are established when a vendor receives an order from a buyer account. Sellers are thought of energetic after they have acquired an order from a buyer through the previous twelve-month interval.

AWS Prospects

  • References to AWS clients imply distinctive AWS buyer accounts, that are distinctive buyer account IDs which can be eligible to make use of AWS companies. This contains AWS accounts within the AWS free tier. A number of customers accessing AWS companies through one account ID are counted as a single account. Prospects are thought of energetic after they have had AWS utilization exercise through the previous one-month interval.

Items

  • References to models imply bodily and digital models bought (web of returns and cancellations) by us and sellers in our shops in addition to Amazon-owned gadgets bought in different shops. Items bought are paid models and don’t embrace models related to AWS, sure acquisitions, sure subscriptions, rental companies, or promoting companies, or Amazon present playing cards.

 

Amazon Investor RelationsDave Fildes, [email protected]
amazon.com/ir

Amazon Public RelationsDan Perlet, [email protected]
amazon.com/pr

Supply: Amazon.com, Inc.

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