{"id":2026,"date":"2009-01-29T22:13:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T03:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2016-09-20T04:10:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:10:13","slug":"amazon-amzn-may-be-the-only-retail-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/amazon-amzn-may-be-the-only-retail-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon (AMZN) may be the only retail survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff \u00a0Bezos must be a happy guy tonight. \u00a0 Amazon.com (AMZN) reported earnings of $0.52 on revenues of $6.7 billion, blowing away analyst expectations of 39 cents \u00a0per share \u00a0on $6.44 billion.<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257 alignright\" title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/itunes_subscribe-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was another nice quarter and rather surprising \u00a0given the \u00a0economic slowdown. \u00a0Amazon has been able to do wonders in this environment as consumers \u00a0look for bargains at any cost. \u00a0On Nov. 20, Amazon bottomed to a two-year low of $35.03 and has since risen sharply. \u00a0Even though the retail outlook and economic conditions continue to deteriorate, they pulled off an <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">amazon<\/span> amazing quarter.<\/p>\n<p>On \u00a0Dec. 26 \u00a0Amazon set the expectations high for an impressive finish to the fourth quarter when they said: &#8220;The 2008 holiday season finished as its best ever, with over 6.3 million items ordered worldwide on the peak day, Dec. 15, which is a record-breaking 72.9 items per second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How long can \u00a0that pace continue?<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.moneycentral.msn.com\/topstocks\/archive\/2009\/01\/29\/amazon-yhe-only-retailer-to-survive.aspx\"> Click Here to Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ino.com\/info\/183\/CD3465\/&amp;dp=0&amp;l=0&amp;campaignid=9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/ino.directtrack.com\/42\/3465\/183\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Free Trading Videos\" width=\"550\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff \u00a0Bezos must be a happy guy tonight. \u00a0 Amazon.com (AMZN) reported earnings of $0.52 on revenues of $6.7 billion, blowing away analyst expectations of 39 cents \u00a0per share \u00a0on $6.44 billion. It was another nice quarter and rather surprising \u00a0given the \u00a0economic slowdown. \u00a0Amazon has been able to do wonders in this environment as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,224,42],"tags":[487,490],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earnings","category-long-ideas","category-stocks","tag-earnings","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}