Should You Worry About This Trend at Amazon? This 1 Metric Offers a Compellingly Clear Answer.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has built a dominant position in two growth areas over the years, and these are e-commerce and cloud computing. Shoppers around the world turn to Amazon for a wide range of products, from groceries to mass merchandise and even entertainment like books and movies. And companies have clearly chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a variety of cloud offerings -- from storage to artificial intelligence (AI) tools -- as it's become the biggest cloud services provider globally.All of this has generated massive levels of earnings for Amazon as well as growth quarter after quarter. In the recent period, for example, net sales climbed 17% to more than $181 billion, and profit advanced to $30 billion. And AWS has seen particularly exceptional growth as the AI boom marches on -- sales rose 28% for the unit's fastest growth in 15 quarters. This is positive, but every bright picture generally also holds a dark spot -- something that could weigh on earnings or stock performance, for example. Should you worry about the following trend that's emerging at Amazon? One metric offers a compellingly clear answer.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool