Brianne Gardner Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN-Q BUY Aug 25, 2025

AWS is growing again, AI is taking share and their e-commerce is humming along. Firing on all cylinders. Like Uber, they are growing into their numbers (PE) after investing in their future.

He'd absolutely buy for a long-term hold. One of the 3 major players in cloud. E-commerce division is still a loss leader, but still such a draw and massive threat to rest of retail. Generating free cashflow, valuation has come down, lots of growth going forward. 

Great business. Has AWS, which is a huge piece of the business. Also direct-to-consumer, so that part continues to grow in this time of inflation. Valuation is not stretched, so he'd be looking at this one among the Mag 7.

Yes, those earnings were disappointing. Still came ahead of what was expected, but not to the same tune as MSFT's or GOOG's. Just a matter of time before it ramps up again. Will continue spending on data centres, and this will pay off. 

Sees a parallel to Q2 earnings for MSFT last year. Azure disappointed, stock dropped ~10-15%. Since then, it's up ~25-30%. Same thing should happen to AMZN in about a year.

This is the one of the group that's going to do the best going forward. With an understanding of tariffs going forward, AMZN will price accordingly; so the e-commerce side of the business will be more refined and its outlook better. No dividend.

Its earnings disappointed. Their AWS was the only area that you didn't expect to underperform; guidance and margins disappointed.

Likes the whole AI play, it'll change the world. Biggest player in outsource infrastructure for computers; for example, SLF uses AMZN for its back office. Cheaper than the rest of the Mag 7. Buying opportunity and will catch up. AWS and advertising have much higher margins than the retail segment and are growing at a faster rate. No dividend.

He believes in it. Was surprised by the quarter, namely AWS, the cloud. Ultimately, he likes their business model a lot, a hybrid of the consumer business and AWS. Trades at 30x forward PE, which some say is expensive. It would be a lot lower if they stopped their capex spending (on AI). There's no catalyst in immediate sight. If shares fall further, he will add.

It was coming into resistance and having a tough time leading to the report. Even if they had a great report, shares would have struggled around $206. MSFT had a monster report which raised the bar for cloud, so that's why Amazon is getting hit. He owns enough shares now, and won't add, but for someone entering, wait a few days for shares to settle.