For all the traders and hedge fund managers who are under 30, Amazon has been here before, and not just once: a place where the company's growth prospects - perceived as virtually boundless - were put into question, leading to a collapse in the soaring stock price.
Indicatively, putting the company's "valuation" in context, AMZN is now trading at a PE of roughly 460x, which compares to 87x during the last peak in the summer of 2008.
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
There is something rotten in the state of Denmark. And we are not talking just about the hapless socialist utopia on the Jutland Peninsula——even if it does strip assets from homeless refugees, charge savers 75 basis points for the deposit privilege and allocate nearly 60% of its GDP to the Welfare State and its untoward ministrations.
For years, shorts would tear their hair out quarter after quarter, when AMZN would continue to bleed cash with relentless abandon, only to see the stock soar after earnings. Now, in what may be a perfect poetic symmetry, following the quarter in which Amazon's free cash flow soared to the highest in years, printing at $7.3 billion, or more than triple the year ago period...
... on margins that are becoming respectable on both a quarterly...
... and LTM basis...
... The stock is crashing by 12% at this moment:
Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
The Potential Of A Policy Error Has Risen
Yesterday, the Fed clearly showed they are trapped in their decision to raise rates. Despite an ongoing deterioration in the underlying economic and financial market fabric, Yellen & Co. stayed firm in their commitment to a gradual increase in interest rates.
Did The Fed drink the bull's liquidity milkshake?
Chinese stocks were ugly again...