Live: Amazon Misses Estimates On Earnings ... - Business Insider

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Amazon reported revenue that was below Wall Street's expectations, but its stock is soaring after hours.

Here are the numbers:

• EPS: $0.21 cents versus consensus estimate of $0.28 cents
• Revenues: $21.27 billion versus estimate of $22.3 billion

Click here for the release.

Other important numbers:

• $97 million of net profit, down 45% from year prior.
• Q1 sales guidance: $15-16.6 billion, versus estimates of $16.85 billion.

"We?re now seeing the transition we?ve been expecting,? Jeff Bezos, said in the release. ?After 5 years, eBooks is a multi-billion dollar category for us and growing fast ? up approximately 70% last year. In contrast, our physical book sales experienced the lowest December growth rate in our 17 years as a book seller, up just 5%. We're excited and very grateful to our customers for their response to Kindle and our ever expanding ecosystem and selection.?

Amazon will host a call to discuss its earnings at 5 PM ET. We'll be covering it live.

Click here to update this post.

5:01 - The call is beginning?

VP of Investor Relations, Sean Boyle, and CFO Tom Szkutak on the line

5:03 - Tom begins

Talking about all the financials...

Investing in technology and infrastructure including Amazon web services. World wide revenue grew more than 20%. Media revenue increased 10% excluding foreign exchange.?

Now talking about operating expenses.?

5:08 -?

Revenue grew 27%.?

Turning to balance sheet...Numbers are all here in the release.

5:10 - Guidance

Guidance - based on order trends we see today. Not possibile to accurately predict demand. Giving a big disclaimer

Net sales between $15-16.6 billion for Q1.

Gap operating income $258 million loss and $65 million positive income.?

5:11 - Moving on to questions

First question from Morgan Stanley - Are there other parts of the business where you can transition to more of fixed cost?

Tom - You're right in terms of over past few years we have expanded our fulfillment network. You're seeing that reflected in our transportation costs and fulfillment expense is really not fixed.?

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/live-amazon-misses-estimates-on-earnings-revenue-and-guidance-2013-1

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