Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday joined Apple Inc in the $1 trillion club, becoming the second member of the group after its stock price doubled in 15 months. If the online retailer\u2019s share price continues at its recent pace, it will be a matter of when, not if, Amazon\u2019s market valuation eclipses that of iPhone maker Apple, which reached $1 trillion on Aug. 2.<\/p>\n
Apple took almost 38 years as a public company to achieve the trillion dollar milestone, while Amazon got there in 21 years. While Apple\u2019s iPhone and other devices remain popular and its revenues are growing, it is not keeping up with Amazon\u2019s blistering sales growth. Amazon has impressed investors by successfully diversifying its business into virtually every corner of the retail industry, altering how consumers buy products and putting major pressure on many brick-and-mortar stores. It also provides video streaming services and bought upscale supermarket Whole Foods. And its cloud computing services for companies have become a major driver of earnings and revenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmazon\u2019s a little bit more dynamic than Apple because the iPhone has become more mature. Amazon\u2019s cloud business is an extra growth driver that Apple doesn\u2019t have,\u201d said Daniel Morgan, portfolio manager at Synovus Trust in Atlanta, Georgia who describes Amazon\u2019s cloud services as its \u201ccrown jewel.\u201d In the second quarter the unit accounted for 55 per cent of Amazon\u2019s operating income and 20 per cent of total revenue, according to Morgan. Apple started trading in December 1980 but its stock did not truly start to take flight for another 25 years, spurred by the iPhone, the breakthrough device that left competitors in the dust. Amazon \u2013 founded as an online book-retailer in Chief Executive Jeff Bezos\u2019 garage in 1994 \u2013 started trading on May 15 1997 at $1.50 on a split-adjusted basis.<\/p>\n
By October 2009 it had risen to $100 and the stock hit $1,000 for the first time on May 30, 2017. It has held above that level since October 27, 2017. Just 10 months later, on Aug. 30, Amazon shares hit $2,000 for the first time, just $50 per share away from giving the company a $1 trillion market value. That milestone, just a month after it reached a $900 billion valuation threshold. Amazon shares were last up 1.1 per cent at $2,035.69, pulling back slightly from the milestone level of $2050.2677.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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