The electronic commerce giant Amazon This Thursday has presented its results corresponding to the fourth quarter of 2024, in which it has obtained a Net profit of 20,004 million dollars, allowing you to almost double the 10,624 million dollars harvested in the same period of 2023. The actions of the firm fall 3% in the operations after the closure of the market even though the results have exceeded the forecasts, and that is that The orientation for the first quarter of 2025 has disappointed the market.
These figures translate into a BUE per share (BPA) of $ 1.86, above $ 1.00 per share recorded in the fourth quarter of 2023 and also of the consensus forecasts, which aimed at a BPA of $ 1.49. For its part, The company's income has increased by 10% in the year -on -year comparison, to 187,792 million dollarsagainst forecasts of 187,300 million. North America billing has increased by 10%, to 115.6 billion dollars, and sales of the international segment have improved 8% in relation to the fourth quarter of 2023, and have reached 43,400 million. They deserve income from Amazon Web Services (AWS)one of the most followed magnitudes in these accounts, which have been located, with their 28.8 billion dollars (+19%), in line with forecasts. While The operational result has increased to 21.2 billion dollars in the fourth quarter, compared to the 13,200 million dollars achieved between October and December 2023. The company has registered a 18% increase in advertising income, to 17,288 millionslightly below the forecasts of 17,400 million. Andy Jassy, president and CEO of the company, says that «The Christmas shopping season was the most successful so far for Amazon« Aws, where we introduced our new chip of the trainium2our own basic models in Amazon Nova and a plethora of new models and characteristics in Amazon Bedrock that offer customers flexibility and cost savings, «he details. Facing the first quarter of 2025, the firm awaits net sales between 151,000 million and 155.5 billion, a rise of between 5% and 9% compared to the first quarter of 2024. This forecast has disappointed analysts, who expected 158.5 billion. Amazon also anticipates that operating income ranges between 14,000 and 18,000 million dollars.