AMZN: the stock and the company in 10 years.
- Thread starter Jamie J.
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I think it is a good stock but their margins are slim. I order things (mostly books and small items) from them every 2,3 months and I wonder how they make a profit.
I think that they need to expand past online retailing and try something else that would encourage people to use their site, like online movies (Hulu, Netflix) or try something similar like Ebay's auction site and develop an approach like Alibaba; the Chinese site that is like Ebay plus Amazon combined.
They already have the IT capacity and the management skills, it would not take much to branch out.
They recently leased numerous planes and hundreds of trucks so they can start their own transportation network. I guess they have figured that they can transport their own products cheaper than UPS or Fedex can do it. That's a good start. It works for Target and WalMart.
But they are only going to get bigger. Traditional retail outlets are declining. People shop their to see and compare items in person, then return home to buy it from Amazon.
Online sales increase every year. It's cheaper, more convenient and they don't have any major competitors.
I think that they need to expand past online retailing and try something else that would encourage people to use their site, like online movies (Hulu, Netflix) or try something similar like Ebay's auction site and develop an approach like Alibaba; the Chinese site that is like Ebay plus Amazon combined.
They already have the IT capacity and the management skills, it would not take much to branch out.
They recently leased numerous planes and hundreds of trucks so they can start their own transportation network. I guess they have figured that they can transport their own products cheaper than UPS or Fedex can do it. That's a good start. It works for Target and WalMart.
But they are only going to get bigger. Traditional retail outlets are declining. People shop their to see and compare items in person, then return home to buy it from Amazon.
Online sales increase every year. It's cheaper, more convenient and they don't have any major competitors.
What I really think is that Amazon should lose at least 50% of its current market capitalization in order to be a good investment today.
And Walmart is not going anywhere, they are going to catch up with Amazon sooner or later.
I'm waiting for the day when you go into a bookstore where no books are actually kept in stock. The front of the store is essentially a coffee shop, next to a collection of terminals, on which you can surf through the various book reviews and make an order. Immediately after ordering, somewhere down in the warehouse below the printing machine kicks into action, and a couple of minutes later, your freshly minted book is ready and waiting at the collection desk. I suppose you could say you can already download an online book and be reading it within a couple of minutes. But the hard copy version of a book will always be my preference over any electronic version.
You never heard of Amazon Prime? They even have Original Series made specially for them like Mad Dogs or The Man in the High Castle.
You are late by 3-4 years with your idea....
Amazon may well be the most dynamic company in the world. Forget about the e-retailing side; as far as i can tell, that is run as some sort of loss leader to fund Amazon Web Services. This is the part you need to keep an eye on...cloud computing. That market is gonna be worth trillions in the future and AWS is the market leader by a long shot.
Walmart has to go a long way before bringing such income as Amazon: e-commerce development, expansion of the range of goods etc. Therefore, it is difficult to talk about reaching this level.
I wonder what you mean by "make a strategic move towards personalized custom products".