It's another $100 billion quarter for Amazon as sales soar


It’s another $100 billion quarter for Amazon as sales soar: Tech titan smashes Wall Street expectations

Amazon last night smashed Wall Street expectations as it reported another $100billion quarter.

With the Covid-19 pandemic boosting demand for online shopping, the tech titan posted revenues of £77.8billion ($108.5billion) for the first three months of 2021 – up 44 per cent on last year.

It also more than tripled its profits from £1.8billion to £5.8billion.

Cashing in: With the pandemic boosting demand for online shopping, Amazon posted revenues of £77.8bn ($108.5bn) for the first three months of 2021 – up 44 per cent on last year

Cashing in: With the pandemic boosting demand for online shopping, Amazon posted revenues of £77.8bn ($108.5bn) for the first three months of 2021 – up 44 per cent on last year

Analysts had predicted sales of £75billion and profits of £3.6billion, with the blowout performance sending the firm’s shares more than 4 per cent higher in after-hours trading.

Amazon is fresh from its first ever $100billion quarter at the end of 2020, when huge demand for online deliveries during the Christmas period drove its sales to a record £90billion ($126billion).

And yesterday it said the bonanza was set to continue as it predicted second quarter sales of between £79billion and £83billion.

The firm has emerged as one of the major winners of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced people to spend more time at home.

That has driven huge amounts of shopping on to the internet – to Amazon’s benefit.

Wall Street stocks hit new records last night off the back of strong US economic figures.

The S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes rose after GDP was shown to have jumped by an annualised rate of 6.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2021, the best rate of growth since 2003. 

The Dow closed up 0.7 per cent at 34,060.36 while the S&P 500 also finished 0.7 per cent higher at 4211.47.

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