By                    Cynthia Bowman
  • Market Cap
  • Net Worth
  • Revenue
  • Competitive Advantages
  • Founder
  • CEO
  • Shareholders
  • Future Outlook
  • Is It Worth Investing

Now with a huge competitive edge in its core services, constantly increasing market cap, positive investor sentiment and visionary leaders like CEO Andy Jassy and founder Jeff Bezos, it’s easy to understand why this company is one of the most valuable in the world.

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What Is Market Capitalization?

Market capitalization is often used by investors to determine a company’s value. To calculate market cap, multiply the number of outstanding shares by the current stock market price. Although market capitalization can help determine a company’s value, it’s not always the most accurate. It does not take into account a company’s financials. Share pricing can fluctuate, affecting the figure.

  • Economic moat and competitive advantages
  • Market cap, revenue and outlook
  • Leadership and executive team

In perspective, much of the stock market has had a high P/E ratio in the past few years, so this shouldn’t be a worry as its future outlook — a large factor in both institutional and retail stock investment — is very promising.

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Competitiveness

AWS is in the spotlight for its decisive market dominance. As of the second quarter of 2022, AWS had 34% of the cloud provider service market share, while Microsoft Azure had roughly 13% and Google Cloud had less than 10%, according to Synergy Research Group.

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Top 10 Shareholders

  • The Vanguard Group Inc., 6.75% of shares
  • Blackrock Inc., 5.76% of shares
  • State Street Corp., 3.20% of shares
  • T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., 3.06% of shares
  • FMR, LLC (Fidelity), 2.80% of shares
  • Geode Capital Management LLC, 1.49% of shares
  • Morgan Stanley, 1.18% of shares
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co., 1.05% of shares
  • Capital Research Global Investors, 0.98% of shares
  • Northern Trust Corp., 0.93% of shares

“There is obviously a lot happening in the macroeconomic environment, and we’ll balance our investments to be more streamlined without compromising our key long-term, strategic bets. What won’t change is our maniacal focus on the customer experience, and we feel confident that we’re ready to deliver a great experience for customers this holiday shopping season,” Jassy said in a statement.

Good To Know

Also telling is the fact that shortly after taking over as CEO, Jassy announced a global effort to hire 55,000 new employees for corporate and tech roles to keep up with demand in retail, cloud, advertising and other businesses. Then, just prior to the start of its job fair that began Sept. 15, 2021, the company announced it would actually hire 125,000 employees in the U.S. alone and offer perks like $3,000 sign-on bonuses in select locations and full college tuition for 750,000 operations employees.

Daria Uhlig, Brenda Zhang and Joel Anderson contributed to the reporting for this article.

Data is accurate as of Nov. 2, 2022, and subject to change. 

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