'The best-positioned mega-cap tech company': What Wall Street is saying after Amazon's earnings

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Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, delivers remarks at the grand opening of the Washington Post newsroom in Washington January 28, 2016.  REUTERS/Gary Cameron

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It's hard to find many analysts who are bearish on Amazon right now.

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The company reported a third straight quarter of record profit on Thursday, and a 31% jump in revenue year-over-year, to $29.6 billion.

Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing platform, continued to be its fastest-growing and most profitable business, growing revenue by 58%, to $2.88 billion.

Traders barely moved Amazon's stock after the earnings release. But many of the analysts who cover the company seemed more enthusiastic.

Here's a roundup of some of the commentary:

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