Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results

*Net sales increased 13% to $143.3 billion in the first quarter, compared with $127.4 billion in first quarter 2023. Excluding the $0.2 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 13% compared with first quarter 2023.
-North America segment sales increased 12% year-over-year to $86.3 billion.
-International segment sales increased 10% year-over-year to $31.9 billion, or increased 11% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates.
-AWS segment sales increased 17% year-over-year to $25.0 billion.
*Operating income increased to $15.3 billion in the first quarter, compared with $4.8 billion in first quarter 2023.
-North America segment operating income was $5.0 billion, compared with operating income of $0.9 billion in first quarter 2023.
-International segment operating income was $0.9 billion, compared with an operating loss of $1.2 billion in first quarter 2023.
-AWS segment operating income was $9.4 billion, compared with operating income of $5.1 billion in first quarter 2023.
*Net income increased to $10.4 billion in the first quarter, or $0.98 per diluted share, compared with $3.2 billion, or $0.31 per diluted share, in first quarter 2023.
-First quarter 2024 net income includes a pre-tax valuation loss of $2.0 billion included in non-operating expense from the common stock investment in Rivian Automotive, Inc., compared to a pre-tax valuation loss of $0.5 billion from the investment in first quarter 2023.
*Operating cash flow increased 82% to $99.1 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $54.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2023.

“It was a good start to the year across the business, and you can see that in both our customer experience improvements and financial results,” said Andy Jassy, Amazon President and CEO. “The combination of companies renewing their infrastructure modernization efforts and the appeal of AWS’s AI capabilities is reaccelerating AWS’s growth rate (now at a $100 billion annual revenue run rate); our Stores business continues to expand selection, provide everyday low prices, and accelerate delivery speed (setting another record on speed for Prime customers in Q1) while lowering our cost to serve; and, our Advertising efforts continue to benefit from the growth of our Stores and Prime Video businesses. It’s very early days in all of our businesses and we remain excited by how much more we can make customers’ lives better and easier moving forward.”
details at: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details/2024/Amazon.com-Announces-First-Quarter-Results-68b9258cd/

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