Amazon.com

AMZN

Specialty Retail · Consumer Cyclical

Price

$274.48

+2.22 (+0.82%)

Market Cap

$2.95T

Exchange

United States

Winston Score

Winston is curious

A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Data as of Aug 9, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026

Share count rising — dilution

+5.1% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 10.30B (2021) → 10.83B (2025)

Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world. It runs a massive online store where people can buy almost anything, from books to electronics to groceries. It also sells its own devices like the Kindle and Echo, and it owns Whole Foods grocery stores.

Amazon makes money in several ways: it charges sellers fees to list products on its marketplace, sells its own goods directly, offers Prime memberships for fast shipping and streaming video, and runs Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing business that rents computing power to other companies. AWS is the most profitable part of Amazon and one of the largest cloud platforms globally. Amazon operates across North America, Europe, and Asia. Its main growth driver is continued expansion of AWS, but the company faces risks from rising competition in cloud computing from Microsoft and Google, as well as regulatory scrutiny over its dominant marketplace position.

Winston Score History

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+19.6% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+240.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$108.5B/ year

↑ Rising (+23% vs prior year)

15.1% of revenue

3.8x the sector average (4%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

9.1%ownership

→ Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~4 years

$123.0B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

$123.0B cash & investments at current burn rate

Heavy R&D investment

Amazon.com is putting 15% of revenue into R&D and that number is rising. That's 3.8x the sector average. With 4+ years of cash runway, they have time to let it pay off.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin

52.3%

Healthy — 52.3% gross margin

Operating Margin

13.7%

Healthy — 13.7% operating margin

ROCE

4.0%

Weak — 4.0% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+15.8%

Fast-growing sales (+15.8% YoY)

EPS YoY

+88.3%

Earnings growing fast (+88.3% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency

8/8 quarters

Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

119%

Turns 119% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

-1.5%

Burning cash (-1.5%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.23

Conservative — low debt load (0.23)

Interest Cover

28.13x

Comfortably covers interest (28.1x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

21.8x

Growth-priced — P/E 21.8

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

P/E vs Forward

+3.9

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (21.8 → 17.8)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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