Amazon.Com Inc (AMZN)
Price: $183.75
Industry: Nonfood Retail-Wholesale Chaikin Power Gauge Report | Generated: Wed Feb 29 11:40 EST 2012 Power Gauge Rating
AMZN - Very Bearish TM
The Chaikin Power Gauge Rating for AMZN is very bearish due to very poor financial metrics and very negative expert opinions. AMZN's financial metrics are very poor due to a high price to book value ratio and relatively low cash flow.
News Sentiment Rating
Bearish AMZN Amazon.Com I..
February 29, 2012
TM
Chaikin Sentiment Gauge for AMZN is bearish. There is currently a significant negative sentiment within news stories concerning AMZN.
News Sentiment :Negative
Power Trend - 5 Year Chart
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Neutral
Low Potential
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Financials & Earnings
Financial Metrics Rating
Financial Metrics
Very Bearish
LT Debt/Equity Ratio
AMZN's financial metrics are very poor. The company may be overvalued and generates relatively low free cash flow relative to market capitalization.
Price to Book Value
The rank is based on a low long term debt to equity ratio relative to its industry group, high price to book value ratio and relatively low cash flow.
Return on Equity
Price to Sales Ratio
Business Value
Assets and Liabilities
Valuation
Returns
Ratio
TTM
Ratio
Ratio
TTM
Current Ratio
1.17
Price/Book
10.77
Return on Invest
6.2%
LT Debt/Equity
0.34
Price/Sales
1.74
Return on Equity
8.1%
Earnings Performance
TTM
Earnings Performance Rating
Neutral
Earnings Growth
AMZN's earnings performance has been neutral. The company has a history of strong earnings growth and experienced relatively poor earnings growth in the past 12 months.
Earnings Surprise
Earnings Trend
The rank is based on high earnings growth over the past 3-5 years, better than expected earnings in recent quarters, a relatively poor trend in earnings this year, a relatively high projected P/E ratio and consistent earnings over the past 5 years.
Projected P/E Ratio
Earnings Consistency
5 Year Revenue and Earnings Growth
Revenue(M) Rev % Growth EPS EPS % Growth
EPS Estimates
12/07
12/08
12/09
12/10
12/11
14,835.00
19,166.00
24,509.00
34,204.00
48,077.00
38.50%
29.19%
27.88%
39.56%
40.56%
$1.15
$1.52
$2.08
$2.58
$1.39
150.00%
32.17%
36.84%
24.04%
-46.12%
EPS Surprise
Factor
Actual EPS Prev
EST EPS Current
Change
$0.45
$0.07
-0.38
Quarterly EPS Yearly EPS Factor
$1.39
$1.37
-0.02
Actual EPS Growth
Est EPS Growth
Change
35.14%
28.30%
-6.84
3-5 year EPS
EPS Quarterly Results Estimate
Actual
Difference
% Difference
Latest Qtr
$0.16
1 Qtr Ago
$0.23
2 Qtr Ago
$0.37
$0.38
3 Qtr Ago
$0.60
$0.44
FY
Qtr 1
Qtr 2
Qtr 3
Qtr 4
Total
$0.38
$0.22
$0.14
$-0.09
137.50
12/09
$0.41
$0.33
$0.46
$0.87
$2.07
-39.13
12/10
$0.67
$0.46
$0.52
$0.92
$2.57
$0.01
2.70
12/11
$0.45
$0.42
$0.14
$0.39
$1.40
$-0.16
-26.67
Fiscal Year End Month is December.
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Price Trend & Expert Opinions Price/Volume Activity
Price/Volume Activity Rating
Neutral
Relative Strength vs Market
Price and volume activity for AMZN is neutral. AMZN is in an accelerating price trend compared to 4 months ago and has underperformed the S&P 500 over 26 weeks.
Chaikin Money Flow
Price Trend
The rank for AMZN is based on its relative weakness versus the market, a negative Chaikin price trend, a positive Chaikin price trend ROC and an increasing volume trend.
Price Trend ROC
Volume Trend
Relative Strength vs S&P500 Index
Chaikin Money Flow
Chart shows whether AMZN is performing better or worse than the market.
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Price Activity
Price Activity
Factor
Value
Volume Activity
Factor
Value
Factor
Value
52 Week High
246.71
% Change Price - 4 Weeks
-5.47%
Average Volume 20 Days
7,065,314
52 Week Low
160.97
% Change Price - 24 Weeks
-16.28%
Average Volume 90 Days
6,677,162
% Change YTD Rel S&P 500
-4.71%
% Change Price - 4 Wks Rel to S&P
-9.59%
% Change Price - 24 Wks Rel to S&P
-28.44%
Expert Opinions
Very Bearish Expert opinions about AMZN are very negative. Analysts are lowering their EPS estimates for AMZN and analysts's opinions on AMZN have been more negative recently.
Short Interest
Insider Activity
The rank for AMZN is based on analysts revising earnings estimates downward, a low short interest ratio, insiders not purchasing significant amounts of stock, pessimistic analyst opinions and relative weakness of the stock versus the Nonfood Retail-Wholesale industry group.
Analyst Opinions
Relative Strength vs Industry
Earnings Estimate Revisions Current
Next Qtr
0.07 0.19 Current
Current FY
62%
Expert Opinions
Earnings Estimate Revisions
Current Qtr
Chaikin Money Flow Persistency
1.37
Analyst Recommendations
7 Days Ago % Change 0.07 0.19
0.00% 0.00%
30 Days Ago % Change 1.91
-0.54
Factor Mean this Week Mean Last Week
EPS Estimates Revision Summary Value
Buy 0.00
Mean 5 Weeks Ago
Buy
Last 4 Weeks
Down
Up
Down
Curr Qtr
0
1
3
15
Curr Yr
0
1
3
24
Next Qtr
0
1
2
16
Next Yr
0
1
3
16
Buy
Change
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The Company & Its Competitors
News Headlines for AMZN
AMZN's Competitors in Nonfood Retail-Wholesale Historic EPS growth
Projected EPS growth
Profit Margin
PEG
PE
Revenue(M)
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AMZN
35.14%
28.30%
1.31%
4.75
137.16
48,077
EBAY
14.84%
11.90%
27.72%
1.57
20.69
11,652
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IACI
-7.16%
35.17%
8.46%
0.65
27.21
2,059
NFLX
30.50%
20.59%
7.23%
-
26.60
3,205
OSTK
8.61%
20.00%
-0.11%
-
-
-
Company
Power Gauge
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Company Details
Company Profile
Amazon.Com Inc 410 TERRY AVENUE NORTH SEATTLE, WA 98109 USA Phone: 2062661000 Fax: 206-622-2405 Website: http://http://www.amazon.com Full Time Employees: 56,200 Sector: Retail/Wholesale
Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they may want to buy online. The company lists unique items in categories such as books, music, DVDs, videos, consumer electronics, toys, camera and photo items, software, computer and video games, tools and hardware, lawn and patio items, kitchen products, and wireless products.
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