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17 charts that show just how scary Amazon's $275 billion business really is

Jul 26, 2021, 12:47 IST

Amazon went public in 1997. Its shares were priced at $18 each back then. Now they're worth more than $580 each. In December 2015, the stock went up to $675 a share, an all-time high.

Amazon is famous for its relentless focus on long-term growth. It's why they shun profits in favor of revenue growth. In 2015, Amazon generated $107 billion in revenue, but made only $596 million in net profit.

In fact, Amazon's growing so fast, it's now outgrown Walmart as the largest retailer in the US.

Amazon sells everything from electronics to groceries. This chart shows it's the top destination for US consumers buying everyday products online.

It's also the top seller for personal care and beauty products in the US.

It's no surprise that more than half of US consumers planned to do most of their online shopping on Amazon.

And there's still a huge opportunity lying ahead of Amazon. Only 6% of total US retail sales came from ecommerce, and given Amazon is the leading ecommerce site in the US, there's a lot of room to grow.

This chart explains it in more detail. Amazon accounted for 51% of all US ecommerce growth, and 24% of all growth in retail, which includes brick-and-mortar sales.

In fact, Deutsche Bank predicts major retail-store sales will remain flat, while Amazon's North American sales will continue to grow.

Amazon's now eating into Google's business too. This chart shows Amazon driving 42% of its mobile traffic growth from web browsers — meaning the rest of its growth (58%) came from its own mobile apps. That means people are searching for Amazon products in its own apps instead of using search engines like Google.

Amazon seems to have captured the public mindshare too. It eclipses its retail competitors when it comes to the number of Google search queries.

Amazon Prime is its $99/year membership service that includes free shipping and access to tons of video, music, and online books. According to this chart, nearly half of all US households will become Amazon Prime members by 2020.

But what's really driving Amazon's growth isn't its ecommerce business. It's Amazon Web Services, its cloud-computing business, which is expected to hit roughly $10 billion in revenue this year.

AWS is blowing away its competition.

AWS is also the fastest-growing enterprise business by a long shot. Nobody’s even close when it comes to revenue-growth rate.

One reason why AWS is so dominant is its fast pace of adding new features. Wall Street analyst Jeffries wrote in a research note, “The pace of AWS innovation is very likely unmatched by any of its competitors.”

Amazon's latest big hit is the Echo, its voice-controlled-speaker device. Although Amazon will not divulge specific sales numbers, the Echo consistently ranks at the top of Amazon's best-selling-gadget list, and some forecast it to be its next billion-dollar business. As this chart shows, Amazon's already winning the speaker market by a wide margin.

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