Re:Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sold more than $1B worth of stock t...
by alexasmyths on Saturday November 04, 2017 @11:04AM
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They are barely profitable.
Massive revenue, tiny profit.
So, this makes their P/E ration quite massive and crazy as well.
Usually companies are based on the present value of all future earnings, kind of implying a P/E multiple of like 8 or 25 or whatever. Amazons is crazy high.
This is because it's assumed that Amazon could, at any time, start declaring massive profits, but they chose to re-invest instead.
Massive revenue, tiny profit.
So, this makes their P/E ration quite massive and crazy as well.
Usually companies are based on the present value of all future earnings, kind of implying a P/E multiple of like 8 or 25 or whatever. Amazons is crazy high.
This is because it's assumed that Amazon could, at any time, start declaring massive profits, but they chose to re-invest instead.