Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Jeff Bezos: Kindle Books and Readers Are Separate Businesses
In the future, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book reader will display more book formats beyond its own.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Amazon Keeps Climbing On Strong Q1; How High Is Up?
Amazon.com is absolutely on fire. The company posted Q1 results that blew away estimates, with EPS of 41 cents a dime ahead of the Street, as both gross margins and operating margin expanded in the face of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Ignore Twitter? Major Brands Learn They’d Better Respond — and Quick
Amazon.com Inc. shut like a book.
Domino’s Pizza Inc. was late but eventually delivered.
And CNN focused on the good news.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Now, Even More Ways to Spend Money Online
Shopping on cellphones–long a dream among e-commerce companies–is not yet a mass-market phenomenon. But some new tools could help change that picture.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Tired of April Fools Gags? Wait, There’s More.
Jokes dreamed up by tech companies for April Fool’s Day may not be spectacularly funny. But one can’t help but notice the level of effort put in, which sometimes seems to rival the intensity of their product-development efforts.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
GameStop Whacked; Amazon Enters Used Game Business
GameStop shares are getting clobbered today on news that Amazon.com is getting into the business of buying and selling used videogames–and so is Toys ’R Us.
Credit Suisse analyst Gary Balter explained in a research note today that one reason he has maintained an Outperform rating on GME shares is that the company has dominated the used videogame business; he notes that used games generate 44 percent of the retailer’s gross profits, nearly twice the segment’s sales contribution to the company.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Amazon: Legg Mason Sharply Reduces Stake
Slowly but surely, Legg Mason has been easing out of its once gigantic stake in Amazon.com, formerly a favorite stock of Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller.
In a filing with the SEC yesterday, Legg disclosed that it now holds 9,592,126 Amazon shares, down from 24,280,422 shares in its previous filing in October.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Best Buy Added to Goldman Conviction List
Best Buy shares are getting a boost this morning from a bullish note by Goldman Sachs analyst Matthew Fassler, who added the stock to his firm’s Conviction List. Fassler had upgraded the stock to a Buy rating in early January. He has a price target on the stock of $33.
Fassler expects the company to benefit from the demise of rival Circuit City.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Linden Bets on the Desire for Virtual Things
Virtual worlds have had some real problems. Google, for instance, recently shut down an animated environment called Lively only five months after it was announced. And Linden Lab, whose Second Life online community was once front-page news, has neither reached many mainstream consumers nor created an important meeting place for corporate users.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Amazon: Will It Benefit From Circuit City’s Demise?
J.P. Morgan’s Imran Khan theorized in a research note this afternoon that Amazon.com could eventually be a beneficiary of the demise of Circuit City, which earlier today said it would close all of its remaining stores and liquidate. Khan thinks Amazon could inherit as much as half of Circuit City’s online business.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Amazon, eBay Skid on Worries Over Retail Sales
The broad market is getting clobbered this morning in part by the extremely weak Commerce Department report on December retail sales–and investors are demonstrating particular zeal for dumping both Amazon.com and eBay.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Amazon: Fretting Over Margins
The Street is suddenly concerned about pressure on gross margins at Amazon.com. The issue came up in two Street research notes this morning; while in the real world it takes three data points to declare a trend, I’ll settle for two.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Used Game Prices Tank as the Market Rewards Big Hits
It has become popular to say that the gaming industry has become recession-proof, simply because the overall sales for 2008 are up year over year…but those numbers only tell part of the story. Other sources are starting to report some troubling trends in gaming sales; not the least of which is the plummeting price of used games. These trends could lead to some troubling times for gaming in 2009.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Borders Abandons Search for Buyer; Stock Tumbles
Borders Group took itself off of the market yesterday afternoon, presumably because the company could find no buyers. Accordingly, the stock has taken a nosedive. That, combined with dismal recent numbers from Barnes & Noble, has intensified worries about the book-selling business as a whole–and about future numbers from Amazon.com in particular.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Amazon: Estimates Still Too High?
Are estimates still too high for Amazon.com (AMZN)?
Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth thinks so. This morning, he cut his 2008 estimate to $1.40 from $1.56; for 2009, he drops to $1.57, from $2.06. That puts his numbers way below the Street consensus of $1.51 for this year and $1.96 for next year.
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