アマゾンの株価は時間外取引で6％以上急騰し、第3四半期の予測を上回り、投資家に感銘を与えた。この上昇により、現在1兆9500億ドルのシアトルに本社を置く同社の時価総額は2兆ドルの節目を超えると予想されている。同社の四半期売上高は1,589億ドル（1,233億円）で、アナリスト予想の1,572億ドル（1,219億円）を上回り、前年同期比11％の伸びを記録した。純利益も前年同期の99億ドル（77億ポンド）から153億ドル（119億ポンド）と大幅に増加し、アナリスト予想の122億ドル（95億ポンド）を大幅に上回った。Looking ahead to the holiday season, Amazon has projected net sales between $181.5 billion (£140.7 billion) and $188.5 billion (£146.1 billion) for the current quarter, aligning with analyst forecasts.Its key cloud business Amazon Web Services (AWS) saw a 19 per cent rise in revenue as businesses deepened their reliance on cloud services amid digital transformation.Amazon boss Andy Jassy hailed AI as a “maybe once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” for AWS, that Amazon is “aggressively pursuing.” He added AWS already has a “multibillion-dollar” AI business with triple digit revenue growth.The strong results also come thanks to progress from Amazon’s raft of artificial intelligence exploits that it has been developing this year.Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said this week that, for investors, the focus remains on the “monetisation of AI” spreading across the tech landscape.”The next few weeks will be the linchpin to confirmation that the AI ‘use case phase’ have now begun within the enterprise world,” he added.
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