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R.J. Hottovy
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Prime One-Day Shipping Offers Defensive and Offensive Benefits to Amazon's Long-Term Cash Flow Story

Amazon's first-quarter update reinforced its continued shift in to a more dynamic free cash story, with subscription platforms, AWS, advertising, and Whole Foods each contributing to strong revenue growth ($59.7 billion--near the high end of guidance calling for $56 billion-$60 billion) and a new high-water mark for first-quarter operating margins (7.4% versus 3.8% a year ago). Nevertheless, it was Amazon's announcement that it plans to evolve its Prime two-day free shipping program into a one-d...
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Amazon.com Inc.

Amazon.com serves consumers through its online and physical stores. The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Echo, and Ring, and the company develops and produces media content. The company operates customer service centers and provides programs that enable sellers to grow their businesses, sell their products in its stores, and fulfill orders through the company The company serves developers and enterprises of various sizes, including start-ups, government agencies, and academic institutions, through its Amazon Web Services segment, which provides a set of global compute, storage, database, and other service offerings. The company also provides services, such as advertising.

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Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

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