Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)

It report Thursday. He expects terrific numbers, but they may not need to be that terrific to justify its recent rally. Maybe wait till after the quarter.

Owns shares in the company. Excellent company with strong margins and operational performance. Ability to generate cash flow unparalleled. Amazon Web Services very high margins. Current valuation is less than companies like Costco. Profits starting to appear in places like Europe.  

Still a core holding. AWS is the biggest player in data storage, and this will continue. Advertising has better margins  than retail, yet they continue to take market share in retail. Entering higher-margin businesses, with track record of winning every time they do.

Investing so heavily is holding up the PE. If they stopped that, growth would slow down and earnings would shoot up. That's the price of growth.

Trades at a reasonable valuation. Such a broad company. Their ad business continues to grow and they will remain competitive in data centres (they and Google have the best infrastructure in data centres). Prefers Amazon for its valuation and diversification.

In 2022, investors lost their minds when Mag 7 companies were spending huge to solidify their moats. AMZN continues to fine-tune their logistics network, Prime and ad (both growing well), while the data centre business is a no-brainer. Well-diversified. This CEO is taking Amazon to the next level.

Likes it very much. Some hiccups from Covid buildout, but they've grown into it. Profitability rising quite dramatically. AWS doing quite well, #1 or #2 in cloud. Prime streaming also doing well. Well priced, excellent growth metrics.

Benefits from the gen-AI revolution, though 70% of their earnings come from AWS, and the rest from their e-commerce. His price target is $246. It's one of his top holdings, though he sometimes buys calls. Buy around $210, but doesn't see it falling below $200.

It makes most of its money on the cloud which is the biggest growing, and highest margin part of the business. The delivery part is OK and data from that will do well in using AI to monetize it.

Add on pullbacks in 2025. It's not only an AWS story. It will continue to work in 2025.

The FTC head changed today, so he expects the lawsuit against Amazon to end under the new head. Amazon Prime is the greatest bargain in the world. Amazon is great at what it does, not a monopoly. Rallied 2.32% today.

The caller was selling his Oracle and wanted to buy Google or Amazon. He would choose Google as the most attractive on valuation, growth and consistency. Amazon is under some pressure with the anti-trust situation.

One of his 4 (AMZN, META, GOOG, and MSFT) main holdings in the technology space.

Cloud component continues to grow, especially with growth in AI despite all the capex needed on that side. Not everyone is in the cloud yet. Ad business has exploded, growth will continue. Retail business is incredible, the logistics alone is very valuable.

His favourite technical indicator is probably volume-weighted average price, looking at a 3-4 year range. Helps to identify where a lot of people were buying. You can use that as a support level, and sometimes as resistance.

Going back to 2016, he can see that the most average price of this stock is $160, mostly because of where it traded from 2020-2022. On a shorter timeframe, it's done a lot of trading around the $165 level. Right now, he likes to keep it simple and just look at trends. Stock's done well, taken a pause, but broken above so we have new support right where we are right now ~$198.

Good stock to take a position in.

12-month price target of $233. He holds ~5.5-6% position in his fund. Performed extremely well coming out of earnings. Excels because it has so many horses in the race from AWS to Other Bets to the upcoming great season for fulfillments. Don't worry about Bezos selling shares, as he still has a lot left.