Shares in Amazon had peaked in February at $242.06, but have plummeted more than 30% over the past few months.
Amazon said it was ‘working directly with Nike to source their products' after a five-year absence.
A spokesperson for Amazon said the move will expand its selection for U.S. consumers beyond Nike inventory offered by independent sellers in the last several years.
Nike confirmed on Wednesday that its shoes are returning to Amazon. The company stopped selling its goods wholesale on Amazon six years ago as part of a push to distribute more directly to customers and maintain greater control over the experience.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told shareholders during a virtual meeting Wednesday (May 21) that the tariffs the President Donald Trump administration imposed on imported goods have not affected sales. “We also haven't yet seen any meaningful average selling price increases,” Jassy said, according to a Wednesday Reuters report.
Amazon.com investors at its annual meeting again rejected all outside shareholder resolutions, including three meant to address the online retail giant's impact on climate change. Voters approved the reelection of 12 directors and proposed executive compensation.
Amazon reported Q1 FY25 revenue of $165.7 billion, up 10% YoY excluding forex, led by strong retail and AWS growth. Operating income rose 20% YoY to $18.4 billion, supported by improved cost controls despite heavy AI and logistics investments. AWS revenue hit $29.3 billion (+17% YoY) with 40% margins, reaching a $117 billion annualized run rate and expanding AI offerings.
When Mark Zuckerberg recently described a future where advertisers would need "no creative, no targeting demographic, no measurement," it signaled an unapologetic shift toward fully autonomous advertising.
The Department of Justice charged members or associates of an Armenian organized crime ring with stealing more than $83 million worth of cargo from Amazon. The group allegedly posed as legitimate truck drivers, then siphoned off goods destined for Amazon warehouses to sell for a profit or gift to other associates.
Picking through the proverbial haystacks to find the needles smart-money investors are targeting is a difficult task to do on one's own.
Amazon's Q1 results beat estimates, driven by strong AWS and advertising growth, with AWS revenue run rate now exceeding $100 billion. Major growth opportunities lie in AWS's Cloud/AI expansion and Project Kuiper's satellite internet, despite competitive and capital expenditure challenges. Valuation based on conservative EV/EBITDA metrics offers a comfortable margin of safety, supporting 10% upside this year and 34% next year.
Amazon's stock price has picked up this month, but not enough to overcome the drag from earlier in the year. To assess which way the stock will turn for the remainder of 2025, here I consider three scenarios for the year. The first considers what happens if the company clocks a loss, the second looks at some pullback in the net income margin and the third considers a robust profit growth.