Amazon became the second most expensive company in the world
Amazon, which has long been just an online store , completed the trading day with a market capitalization of $ 768 billion, becoming the second largest dearness of a public company in the world. AT This plan the brainchild of Jeff Bezos for the first time overtook Alphabet / Google.
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Behind In the past year, Amazon's net profit increased by 27.9%, in once again having pleased investors. A already with At the beginning of this year, Amazon shares rose almost 29%, thanks to which the company's value reached a point in $ 763.27 billion. For comparison, Alphabet, whose shares in almost grew in price, now costs $ 762.98 billion. More expensive than Apple, whose market capitalization is this moment is $ 892 billion
Amazon Is the fastest growing company in the history of the USA
Total 4 a month ago Amazon's capitalization was about $ 500 billion by analysts' forecasts, Amazon's annual revenue can reach $ 200 billion already in 2018. Although two years ago Jeff Bezos' dream limit was the figure in $ 100 billion
For comparison, Apple managed to achieve such growth rates for 5 years. Typically, such growth indicators show only small start-ups, which much easier to scale the business than Amazon, on which employs more than half a million people.
Source: Techcrunch