Amazon beats by $0.12, misses on revs; guides Q1 below consensus :
- Reports Q4 (Dec) earnings of $1.54 per share, $0.12 better than the Capital IQ Consensus of $1.42; revenues rose 22.4% year/year to $43.74 bln vs the $44.69 bln Capital IQ Consensus.
- NA sales +22% to $26.24 bln; operating income +28% to $816 mln
- AWS slaes +47% to $3.53 bln; operating income +60% to $926 mln.
- Co issues downside guidance for Q1:
- Sees Q1 revs of $33.25-35.75 bln vs. $36 bln Capital IQ Consensus, or to grow between 14% and 23% compared with first quarter 2016. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of ~$730 million or 250 basis points from foreign exchange rates.
- Operating income is expected to be between $250 million and $900 mln vs. ests near $, compared with $1.1 billion in first quarter 2016.
- "Prime members can now choose from over 50 million items with free two-day shipping - up 73% since 2015. Prime Video is now available in more than 200 countries and territories. Prime Now added 18 new cities, which means millions more members now get one and two hour delivery. New benefits were also added to the list, like Prime Reading, Audible Channels for Prime, Twitch Prime and more. And customers noticed - tens of millions of new paid members joined the program in just this past year."
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