Amazon’s earnings are subjected to high pressure

Internet Amazon Net sales are expected to increase to $ 187.3 billion in the last quarter of last year, $ 170.0 billion of the previous year. Operational results are expected to have risen to $ 19.1 billion from $ 13.2 billion. The earnings per share are expected to increase to $ 1.50 from $ 1.00.

Expectations are under pressure, as Amazon has exceeded the forecasts for the last two years. More pressure comes from the recent rise in stock price.

Reloading on Tuesday was not proven to be a disappointment with another internet giant Alphabetin result. The result was better than the expectations of analysts, but the market seemed to be disappointed with the growth of cloud services.

The forecasts are the 54 analyst consensus collected by the Factset Information Service. The consensus recommendation for analysts for the company’s share is “buy” and the target price of $ 258.80, with approximately 12 % of the rise in current value.

Analysts are confident in the increase in the value of Amazon’s share, even though the company’s share price has been on the rise. During the year, the value of the share has risen by almost 40 per cent and this year by eight per cent.

Amazon tells his results on Thursday after closing the Wall Street stock markets, around 11 pm Finnish time.

In Amazon’s result, attention is drawn to the growth of the Amazon Web Service business and what views the company sees for the artificial intelligence business. It is also interesting how much Amazon intends to invest in infrastructure in his data centers this year.

Just over a week ago Chinese Deepseek-Tartup released a cheaper artificial intelligence model than its US competitors. This questioned the investments made by large technology companies at least for a moment. So far Meta Platform, Microsoft and Alphabet have said they will continue their big investments.

As an e -commerce giant, investors are also interested in how, in particular, Amazon’s US retail trade went lively in the quarter of the holiday season. Your own tension is created by the president Donald Trump Customs plans that can hit Chinese products, especially.