The growth of the Amazon cloud computing was slower than his peers in the last quarter.
Amazon size makes it increasingly difficult to grow at high speed.
Growth is still strong and investors can react too much to this dynamics.
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I get it. I do. Investors are not used to seeing Amazon(Nasdaq: amzn) the fight. That’s why Amazon Stock decreased by more than 8% after the second quarter of Thursday after the closing.
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Any investors who have not yet heard (or as a qualification tool for those who have), a three-month stretch ending in June, Amazon -167.7 billion-worth of $ 1.68 per share. This is good compared to previous year comparisons of 148 billion. USD and $ 1.26 for a promotion, and better than analysts’ ratings with a top row of $ 162.2 billion. USD and one campaign-1,33 USD. Her cloud computing handle also did well. Amazon Web Services has increased by $ 17% to $ 60.1 billion, of which $ 21.7 Bilon became operational income.
However, the growth rate of the Amazon cloud business was also the main cause of Friday stumbling. This led to the growth of cloud computing that reported Microsoft(Nasdaq: MSFT) and Alphabet(Nasdaq: goog)(Nasdaq: googl) for the same three -month stretch. In the quarter of last year, Microsoft’s Cloud Business increased by 26% per year and Google Cloud sales increased by almost 32%. Investors panicked, explaining this striking difference in growth pace as a sign that Amazon was lagging behind AI competitors.
CEO Andy Jassy’s thoughts about the current Amazon Web Services (AWS) made by a quarter -income conference did not help. Specifically, investors read doubts in his comment: “We can make more income and help our customers more, and we try hard to change that result and how much capacity we have.”
And the Q3 guidelines just caused these concerns. Although the current quarterly revenue from the entire company should range from $ 174 billion to $ 179.5 billion, compared to analysts’ agreement, $ 173.1 billion, Amazon Q3 can only be from $ 15.5 billion to $ 20.5. This is incomparably comparable to the probability of the Factset consensus – $ 19.5 billion. As a result, Amazon stocks.
Still, investors see everything wrong.
No, the Amazon cloud business did not grow almost as fast as Google or Microsoft’s did in the second quarter of this year.
However, there is an important detail, but it is left in the discussion. The thing is that AWS is more than twice the size of any of the top two competitors. In fact, the data collected by Synergy Research Group shows that with 30% of the total global cloud market revenue, the Amazon cloud business is 50% higher than the Next-Deaarest Microsoft. And while Microsoft’s total Q2 Cloud revenue has improved over the year, it has lost its market share since the beginning of last year. The Amazon part is at least slightly higher in the last quarter.
Data Source: Synergy Research Group. The author’s chart.
The bigger “So what?” There is mathematics of this issue. Although the alphabet (Google) and Microsoft could increase relative growth with their cloud business than Amazon, it is easier to grow mathematically from a smaller comparison than higher. The AWS has been technically grown from its competitors on the absolute dollar.
Also, let’s not look at Synergy data that reminds us that AWS is still one of the largest cloud business on the planet. There is a reason she was able to keep this example.
And what it is worth is, several analysts have noticed the same observation after the second quarter numbers appeared on Thursday. Wedbush analyst Scott Devitt noted: “Although we understand the reaction to shares after work hours, we do not believe that the company has a long -term possibility and our thesis remains intact.” Meanwhile, while the RBC Capital Markets analyst Brad Erickson admits, “it was an extraordinary failure quarter that will take some time to recover”, adding that “we believe the company can maintain, if not accelerated, AWS growth over time.
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There is also a good reason. During the invitation, Jassy mentioned a relatively new Ai-AA-AGent technology company, as well as a recently released AI-driven virtual assistant Alexa+, which is also an advertising platform. These solutions do not mean that Amazon is actually behind Ai. Indeed, as CFO Brian Olsavsky emphasized the discussion of the quarter’s results, the Amazon clouds are now $ 195 billion, ie 25% more than the year.
AWS’s main challenge now? In most cases, there is simply a lack of access to the amount of electricity needed for data centers.
But even then, the company helps itself. For example, last year he started offering data center customers to access to Hand holdingsGraviton4 processor, which consumes up to 60% less energy than comparable alternative processors.
None of these amazon shares guarantee, of course, it will be easy in the near future. After performing the mood of the RBC Brad Erickson, Wedbush analyst Scott Devitt believes that “in the coming quarters, we hope that the concern about the average AWS growth rate and margins can remain too much shares as investors are considering the growing awareness of AWS in AI.”
In other words, newcomers can be a gloomy, sometimes scary ride for a while.
But as the old saying goes, Fortuna supports bold.
This can help strengthen your self-confidence: although Amazon Q3’s profit guidelines-$ 8 billion (at the middle point of its range) may have been shy to analysts’ expectations, it still exceeds the revenue of the third quarter of last year-$ 17.4 billion. It is also a fairly safe bet that Amazon is deliberately conservative because of its profit perspective, as the average quarter of about $ 2 billion per quarter in the last few quarters is on average. Investors are just too distracting the noisy headlines that need to be remembered.
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