Alphabet reports first revenue decline in company history – CNBC

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.

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Google parent-company Alphabet beat expectations for its second quarter earnings Thursday, marking its first revenue decline in the company’s history. The company’s stock barely moved after hours.

Here’s how it did against Refinitiv consensus estimates: 

  • EPS: $10.13 (non-GAAP), vs. $8.21 estimated.
  • Revenue: $38.30 billion vs. $37.37 billion estimated.
  • YouTube advertising revenue: $3.81 billion vs. $3.78 billion, according to StreetAccount estimates
  • Google Cloud revenue: $3.01 billion vs. $3.06 billion, as per StreetAccount
  • Traffic acquisition costs (TAC): $6.69 billion vs. $6.67 billion, as per StreetAccount

The company’s board also authorized the company to repurchase up to $28 billion of its Class C shares.

CFO Ruth Porat said on an earnings call that consumers returned to more “commercial” search queries toward the end of the quarter, and advertisers began increasing their search spending, so search revenue ended the quarter about even from last year.

As a result of the customer pullbacks amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the general maturing ad market, Alphabet itself cut marketing spending by half and instituted hiring freezes for the second half of the year in anticipation of a slowdown, CNBC reported. Around that time, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said Google would be pulling back on some of its investments for the rest of the year amid the Covid-19 crisis, starting with hiring. 

Although Porat said growth improved toward the end of the quarter, she cautioned that it’s hard to gauge whether those trends will continue. “We believe it is premature to gauge the durability of recent trends, given the obvious uncertainty of the global macro environment,” she said.

Google’s “other revenue,” which includes hardware like its Pixel phones, came in at $5.12 billion, compared to $4.08 billion in the same quarter a year ago.

Revenue from “Other Bets,” which includes Alphabet’s self-driving car business Waymo as well as life sciences company Verily, fell to $148 million compared to $162 million in the same quarter the year prior. The Other Bets showed an operating loss of $1.11 billion during the quarter.

Alphabet added approximately 4,000 new employees to a full-time workforce of 127,498 during the second quarter. That doesn’t include contractors. Porat said that the company will continue to decelerate year-over-year headcount growth.

Google is also facing antitrust probes along the same lines by the Department of Justice and 50 attorneys general investigating Google company’s search and Android businesses. That is expected to result in legal action that could span issues ranging from its search product to digital advertising marketplace, according to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal.

When analysts asked about this on the call, CEO Sundar Pichai said “I think the scrutiny is going to be here for a while.” He added that the company will “adapt.”

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Ford beats Wall Street earnings expectations after coronavirus shuttered factories – CNBC

Visitor walk past a Ford Escape Titanium at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai on April 17, 2019.

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Ford Motor performed far better than Wall Street expected during the second quarter, even beating its own expectations as the coronavirus caused rolling shutdowns of its plants across the globe.

Here’s how Ford performed versus what Wall Street expected, based on average analysts’ estimates compiled by Refinitive.

  • Adjusted EPS: A loss of 35 cents per share versus a loss of $1.17 per share expected.
  • Automotive revenue: $16.6 billion versus $15.95 billion expected.

Shares of Ford jumped more than 4% in post-market trading after releasing its earnings Thursday evening. The stock closed at $6.74, down 2.6%.

Ford reported an adjusted pretax loss of $1.9 billion – more than $3 billion better than expected. 

Ford CFO Tim Stone warned investors in April that the company expected to lose more than $5 billion, on an adjusted pretax basis, during the second quarter as the pandemic shuttered factories and severely hampered auto sales.

The company managed to report a net profit of $1.1 billion during the second quarter, including a $3.5 billion gain on a previous investment in autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI.

Ford owns about 40% of Argo AI following German automaker Volkswagen purchasing an equal stake in the company from Ford at an evaluation of $7.5 billion. The investment closed in June. 

Analysts and investors were watching to see if Ford would be able to pare back those expected losses since consumer demand in the U.S. was stronger than anticipated, especially for rugged trucks and SUVs. The company also resumed normal shift operations at domestic plants a month ahead of schedule.

Ford burned through $5.3 billion during the second quarter, up from $2.2 billion during the first quarter — numbers that are being closely tracked by Wall Street.

Investors are also watching for any guidance on when Ford might pay down its debt and for updates to an $11 billion restructuring plan led by Ford CEO and President Jim Hackett.

“They’ve got a ton of cash. They’re certainly not going to run out of money this year,” Morningstar analyst David Whiston told CNBC ahead of Ford’s earnings release. “Ford’s problem, as they’ve said in their own words, they’re not physically fit.”

General Motors, which reported its second-quarter earnings Wednesday, said it lost $536 million on an adjusted basis, which was better than Wall Street expected.  On an unadjusted basis, the company lost $806 million and it burned through $7.8 billion in cash during the quarter.

During the first quarter, Ford lost $2 billion and burned through $2.2 billion in cash.

Both Ford and GM roughly doubled their automotive debt to $30 billion during the first quarter to help bolster their balance sheets and get through the Covid crisis.

GM said Wednesday it expects to repay a $16 billion revolving credit line it drew down in March by the end of the year.

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Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results – Business Wire

SEATTLE–()–Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2020.

  • Operating cash flow increased 42% to $51.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $36.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.
  • Free cash flow increased to $31.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $25.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.
  • Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations increased to $21.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $16.1 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.
  • Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations increased to $19.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $13.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2019.
  • Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 517 million on June 30, 2020, compared with 510 million one year ago.
  • Net sales increased 40% to $88.9 billion in the second quarter, compared with $63.4 billion in second quarter 2019. Excluding the $582 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 41% compared with second quarter 2019.
  • Operating income increased to $5.8 billion in the second quarter, compared with operating income of $3.1 billion in second quarter 2019.
  • Net income increased to $5.2 billion in the second quarter, or $10.30 per diluted share, compared with net income of $2.6 billion, or $5.22 per diluted share, in second quarter 2019.

“This was another highly unusual quarter, and I couldn’t be more proud of and grateful to our employees around the globe,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “As expected, we spent over $4 billion on incremental COVID-19-related costs in the quarter to help keep employees safe and deliver products to customers in this time of high demand—purchasing personal protective equipment, increasing cleaning of our facilities, following new safety process paths, adding new backup family care benefits, and paying a special thank you bonus of over $500 million to front-line employees and delivery partners. We’ve created over 175,000 new jobs since March and are in the process of bringing 125,000 of these employees into regular, full-time positions. And third-party sales again grew faster this quarter than Amazon’s first-party sales. Lastly, even in this unpredictable time, we injected significant money into the economy this quarter, investing over $9 billion in capital projects, including fulfillment, transportation, and AWS.”

Highlights

Supporting Employees

  • Amazon’s top priority is providing for the health and safety of our employees and partners, and the company spent more than $4 billion in the second quarter on incremental COVID-19 related initiatives to help keep employees safe, provide additional compensation to our employees and delivery partners, and deliver products to customers.
  • Amazon provided a one-time Thank You bonus totaling over $500 million to all front-line employees and partners who were with the company throughout the month of June.
  • Amazon introduced a new family backup care benefit through Care.com to 650,000 full and part-time Amazon and Whole Foods Market employees in the U.S. This benefit provides employees with up to 10 days of company-subsidized emergency backup child or adult care.
  • Amazon introduced Distance Assistant to help keep employees safe by providing them with live feedback on their social distancing via a 50-inch monitor. Amazon made the software and AI behind this innovation available via open source so that anyone can create their own Distance Assistant at no cost and get up and running with just a monitor, computer, and camera.
  • Amazon is collaborating with national medical care group Crossover Health to pilot Amazon Neighborhood Health Centers, which are new medical facilities available to Amazon employees and their families. The centers will provide access to quality, convenient care while reducing health care costs for employees and Amazon. The pilot includes 20 Crossover Health branded and operated centers in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; Louisville, Kentucky; Detroit, Michigan; and San Bernardino/Moreno Valley, California.

Investing in Communities

  • Amazon donated more than $10 million of personal protective equipment, including 4.4 million masks and thousands of contactless thermometers, to Direct Relief and Feeding America. The masks went to over 200 of Direct Relief’s partner clinics and Feeding America’s food banks and agencies in 47 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
  • Amazon Business delivered more than 200 million essential health and safety products to healthcare and government organizations in tens of thousands of locations across the U.S.
  • Amazon partnered with food banks and schools to deliver more than six million meals to underserved families and vulnerable seniors in 25 U.S. cities and in communities in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the U.K. Amazon plans to deliver one million more meals by the end of this summer.
  • Amazon teamed up with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to launch Camp Prime, offering families fun, safe, and easy ways to help kids stay engaged this summer, including a digital handbook full of camp-themed activities using items from around the house. Camp Prime is free and available to all, and Prime members can extend their experience with content from Prime Video, Prime Reading, and Amazon Music. Amazon also donated $500,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs to help dozens of Club locations offer kids summer activities, including filling “curbside camp” kits available for pickup from Clubs that remain closed.
  • Amazon announced a $10 million donation to 12 organizations that are working to bring about social justice for and improve the lives of Black and African Americans. In addition, Amazon also matched 100% of $8.5 million in donations by Amazon employees, bringing total donations to these organizations from the company and its employees to $27 million.
  • Amazon announced its first ever Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Award honoring 10 teachers each with a grant valued at more than $50,000 to benefit their schools and students. Amazon also announced its second annual class of Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship recipients, awarding 100 students each with a $40,000 college scholarship and a guaranteed paid internship at Amazon.

Protecting the Planet

  • Verizon, Infosys, Reckitt Benckiser, and Oak View Group signed The Climate Pledge, the commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism to achieve net-zero carbon by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement.
  • Amazon and We Mean Business, a global nonprofit coalition working with businesses to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy, announced a partnership to establish the world’s most comprehensive effort to drive companies to adopt more ambitious carbon emissions reduction goals. The partnership encourages companies to accelerate their goals to meet The Climate Pledge.
  • Amazon launched The Climate Pledge Fund with an initial $2 billion in funding to help support visionary companies whose product and service solutions will facilitate the transition to a zero carbon economy.
  • Amazon announced it is on a path to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of schedule. As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon had previously committed to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030.
  • Amazon Air secured up to six million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supplied by Shell Aviation and produced by World Energy. The investment will help increase production of SAF by demonstrating growing demand for low-carbon aviation fuel. The fuel is produced from a feedstock of inedible agricultural waste fats and oils and is expected to reduce carbon emissions by up to 20% compared to conventional jet fuel.
  • Amazon secured the naming rights to the new home of Seattle’s NHL team, Kraken, and WNBA team, Storm, and will name it Climate Pledge Arena. Opening in summer 2021, Climate Pledge Arena will be one of the world’s most sustainable arenas. Through a partnership between Amazon, Oak View Group, and NHL Seattle, the rebuild of this venue is expected to be the first net zero carbon certified arena in the world.
  • In Germany, Amazon announced the first project in Europe from Amazon’s $100 million Right Now Climate Fund. The €3.75 million commitment to The Nature Conservancy will support its work, which includes increasing species biodiversity in cities.

Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

  • Amazon released its 2020 Small and Medium-Sized Business (SMB) Impact Report, highlighting how SMBs selling in its U.S. store have sold more than 3.4 billion products in the past year and created an estimated 1.1 million jobs.
  • In partnership with the British small business support network “Enterprise Nation,” Amazon launched the Amazon Small Business Accelerator, which aims to support more than 200,000 small businesses across the U.K. negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Amazon hosted a week-long boot camp in the U.K. to help 1,000 offline businesses get online, and offered free services, AWS credits, training, and support.
  • In the U.K., Amazon worked with the British Chambers of Commerce to give up to 1,000 businesses tours of Amazon fulfillment centers, helping other companies learn from the safety measures Amazon has put in place within its own operations so the businesses can re-open safely and kick-start the economy.
  • Amazon in Japan launched Global Selling to allow Japanese sellers to reach new customers across 16 Amazon sites worldwide.
  • Amazon in India announced plans to help digitally enable micro, small, and medium businesses across the country as part of a $1 billion investment pledge. Amazon launched Local Shops on Amazon.in, offering shopkeepers and retailers with physical stores the ability to register to serve more customers from their local areas. Since launch, more than 11,000 sellers have enrolled in the program. In addition, Amazon introduced seller registration and account management services in Hindi to help businesses overcome language barriers. Since launch, more than 10,000 sellers have used Hindi to register on Amazon.in.

Shopping and Entertainment

  • Amazon increased grocery delivery capacity by over 160% and tripled grocery pickup locations to support customers during COVID-19. Online grocery sales tripled in the second quarter when compared with the same period last year.
  • Amazon continues working closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand access to online grocery shopping for people who rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Amazon now reaches beneficiaries in 39 states and the District of Columbia, providing more than 90% of SNAP households with the ability to use their SNAP benefits online.
  • Amazon established the Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit, a team dedicated to bringing counterfeiters who violate the law and Amazon’s policies by listing counterfeit products in its stores to justice. Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit is a global, multi-disciplinary group composed of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts who will join Amazon’s existing Customer Trust team working to drive counterfeit to zero.
  • Prime Video launched Watch Parties, a feature that enables Prime members to interact with each other via chat on a desktop while watching Prime Video content, including award-winning TV shows and movies.
  • Prime Video introduced Prime Video Profiles, allowing customers to create and manage up to six profiles within a single account. Each profile offers individualized recommendations, season progress, and watchlists based on individual profile activity.
  • Amazon premiered several Amazon Original series including Upload, from Emmy-winner Greg Daniels, Homecoming Season 2, Bosch Season 6, and Regular Heroes, a docuseries focusing on COVID-19 heroes. Additionally, Amazon premiered several Original movies including Selah and the Spades, The Goldfinch, The Vast of Night, 7500, and the family action-comedy My Spy, along with local Indian movies Ponmagal Vandhal and Gulabo Sitabo.

Devices and Alexa

  • Amazon expanded the portfolio of devices and features that are available to customers around the world. Echo Auto is now available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K.; Echo Dot with clock and Echo Studio are now available in Brazil; eero mesh WiFi systems are now available in Australia and Mexico; and Alexa Skill Blueprints are now available in France, Italy, Mexico, and Spain.
  • Amazon announced new or expanded Alexa integrations with global automotive brands including General Motors, Volkswagen, Toyota, and Lexus.
  • Amazon continues to make Alexa smarter and add more ways for customers to stay connected. Customers can now set reminders that play across all of their Alexa devices, use new notification capabilities with Routines, ask Alexa for nutrition tips, receive Announcements on their mobile phones as a push notification, and broadcast a response to an Announcement.
  • The Alexa Fund is supporting the startup community through investments in Molekule, a leader in reinventing air purification, and Amira Learning, the first AI-powered reading assistant. The Alexa Fund also announced its newest cohort of companies participating in Alexa Next Stage powered by Techstars, a program empowering entrepreneurs who are innovating in the field of voice technology.
  • Amazon announced new live content integrations on Fire TV from YouTube TV and Hulu, and expanded discovery options including the new Free tab which helps customers find free movies, TV shows, and more.
  • Ring launched its next-generation original Ring Video Doorbell for improved home security, featuring a higher resolution camera, improved night vision and additional privacy features. Ring also announced Ring Alarm is now available in several additional European countries, including Germany, Norway, and Sweden.

Amazon Web Services

  • Customers are using AWS to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on families, communities, and businesses. Examples include:

    • With the support of AWS hosting services, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched an app to support health workers around the world in caring for patients with COVID-19, as well as to protect themselves as they do this critical work.
    • Zoom, a provider of enterprise video communications, has long utilized AWS to host a significant portion of its network. In addition to offering a robust free service, since March Zoom has also offered free access to over 100,000 schools to enable them to educate students remotely. Zoom and AWS have worked together to help businesses, schools, and healthcare institutions maintain mission and business continuity as they stay safe at home.
    • Propel, a company focused on building software to help low-income Americans improve their financial health, developed Fresh Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), an app built on AWS that has helped more than three million individuals per month manage their benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), save with coupons, and find jobs.
    • UNC Health built a chatbot on AWS to help address increased call volumes to its COVID-19 help line, answering questions from patients seeking guidance on COVID-19 testing and what to do if they or their loved ones were exposed to the virus.
    • Orange County United Way built a highly-secure mobile and web-enabled app on AWS called AssistOC that allows individuals to submit requests for financial assistance to the nonprofit’s Homelessness Prevention Program, launched in response to the current pandemic, via a smartphone or personal computer.
  • AWS announced several significant new customer commitments and migrations during the quarter. Examples include:

    • HSBC, one of the world’s largest financial services organizations, selected AWS as a key, long-term strategic cloud provider to drive their digital transformation and deliver new and personalized banking services for millions of personal banking customers worldwide.
    • Global market intelligence company IHS Markit selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider to help improve scalability and agility to respond to industry changes and develop new products and services.
    • Formula 1 is using a range of AWS services, including machine learning, for six new F1 Insights powered by AWS that will roll out during the 2020 racing season to give fans the ability to compare their favorite drivers and cars and better predict race outcomes.
    • Bundesliga is using AWS machine learning and analytics to enhance the fan experience for Germany’s top football league, delivering new advanced statistics through Bundesliga Match Facts powered by AWS, including Average Positions and xGoals.
    • Capella Space, a provider of on-demand Earth observation data via satellite-based radar, is all-in on AWS, running its entire infrastructure on AWS using a full portfolio of cloud services including AWS Ground Station to deliver satellite data to customers in minutes.
    • Genesys has selected AWS as the preferred cloud provider for Genesys Cloud, an all-in-one solution and leading public cloud contact center platform used by organizations around the world to manage and improve customer relationships across any channel, including voice, text, web chat, and social.
  • AWS announced Amazon Honeycode, a fully-managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. With Amazon Honeycode, customers can create applications using the simplicity and familiarity of a spreadsheet, but with the data management capability of a database, the collaboration and notifications common in business applications, and a truly seamless web and mobile user experience to perform important business functions like managing field agents, performing PO approvals, scheduling weekly events, reporting employee or team activities, tracking task progress, following customer activity, surveying end users, managing content, inventorying resources, and more.
  • AWS announced the general availability of AWS Snowcone, a small, ultra-portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device that can fit in a small backpack. At under five pounds, AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of devices, enabling customers to collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS. AWS Snowcone is built to withstand harsh conditions, and is designed for a variety of use cases in environments outside of the traditional data center that lack consistent network connectivity and/or require portability.
  • AWS announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that collects data from the plant floor, structures and labels the data, and generates real-time key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to help industrial customers make better, data-driven decisions. Customers can use SiteWise to monitor operations across facilities, quickly compute industrial performance metrics, create applications that analyze industrial equipment data to prevent costly equipment issues, and reduce gaps in production.
  • AWS announced the general availability of the sixth generation of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with three Arm-based instances (M6g, C6g, R6g) powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based Graviton2 processors, that deliver up to 40% better price and performance than current x86 processor-based instances.
  • AWS announced the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru, a developer-quality service powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code.
  • AWS announced the general availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a highly performant, fully-managed, low-cost warm storage tier that provides fast, interactive analytics of log data at one-tenth the cost of existing storage options. UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service gives Elasticsearch customers a warm storage tier that both stores large amounts of data cost-effectively and provides the type of interactive experience that Elasticsearch customers expect.
  • AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning. Amazon Kendra enables organizations to index all of their internal data sources across siloes, makes that data searchable, and allows users to get precise answers to natural language queries instead of trial-and-error keyword search – all with no machine learning expertise required.
  • AWS and Slack announced a multi-year agreement to deliver solutions for enhanced enterprise workforce collaboration. Slack will migrate its Slack Calls capability for all voice and video calling to Amazon Chime, AWS’s communications service that lets users meet, chat, and place business calls. Slack is also leveraging AWS’s global infrastructure to support enterprise customers’ rapid adoption of its platform and to offer them data residency – the ability to choose which country or region their data is stored at rest in while fulfilling compliance requirements.
  • AWS announced a new, global team dedicated to accelerating innovation in the global aerospace and satellite industry. The Aerospace and Satellite Solutions team will bring AWS services and solutions to the space enterprise, and work with customers and partners around the world to: reimagine space system architectures; transform space enterprises; launch new services that process space data on Earth and in orbit; and provide secure, flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud solutions to support government missions and companies advancing space around the world.
  • AWS announced Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), a managed service customers may use to set up live, interactive video streams for web or mobile applications in just a few minutes. Amazon IVS uses the same technology that powers Twitch and allows customers to configure live streams that can be delivered to millions of concurrent viewers globally with interactive features like virtual chat spaces, votes and polls, moderated question and answer sessions, and synchronized promotional elements.

Financial Guidance

The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com’s expectations as of July 30, 2020, and are subject to substantial uncertainty. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, and cloud services, and the various factors detailed below. This guidance reflects our estimates as of July 30, 2020 regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, including those discussed above, and is highly dependent on numerous factors that we may not be able to predict or control, including: the duration and scope of the pandemic, including any recurrence; actions taken by governments, businesses, and individuals in response to the pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on global and regional economies and economic activity, workforce staffing and productivity, and our significant and continuing spending on employee safety measures; our ability to continue operations in affected areas; and consumer demand and spending patterns, as well as the effects on suppliers, creditors, and third-party sellers, all of which are uncertain. This guidance also assumes the impacts on consumer demand and spending patterns, including impacts due to concerns over the current economic outlook, will be in line with those experienced during the third quarter to date, and the additional assumptions set forth below. However, it is not possible to determine the ultimate impact on our operations for the third quarter, or whether other currently unanticipated direct or indirect consequences of the pandemic are reasonably likely to materially affect our operations.

Third Quarter 2020 Guidance

  • Net sales are expected to be between $87.0 billion and $93.0 billion, or to grow between 24% and 33% compared with third quarter 2019. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 20 basis points from foreign exchange rates.
  • Operating income is expected to be between $2.0 billion and $5.0 billion, compared with $3.2 billion in third quarter 2019. This guidance assumes more than $2.0 billion of costs related to COVID-19.
  • This guidance assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, investments, restructurings, or legal settlements are concluded.

A conference call will be webcast live today at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET, and will be available for at least three months at amazon.com/ir. This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company’s financial and operating results.

These forward-looking statements are inherently difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, in addition to the factors discussed above, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of claims, litigation, government investigations, and other proceedings, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains, and develops commercial agreements, proposed and completed acquisitions and strategic transactions, payments risks, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services, and technologies, system interruptions, government regulation and taxation, and fraud. In addition, additional or unforeseen effects from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic climate may give rise to or amplify many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

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AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(in millions)

(unaudited)

 

Three Months Ended

June 30,

 

Six Months Ended

June 30,

 

Twelve Months Ended

June 30,

 

2019

 

2020

 

2019

 

2020

 

2019

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, BEGINNING OF PERIOD

$

23,507

 

 

$

27,505

 

 

$

32,173

 

 

$

36,410

 

 

$

20,536

 

 

$

22,965

 

OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

 

2,625

 

 

 

5,243

 

 

 

6,186

 

 

 

7,778

 

 

 

12,096

 

 

 

13,180

 

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment and capitalized content costs, operating lease assets, and other

 

5,202

 

 

 

5,748

 

 

 

10,056

 

 

 

11,110

 

 

 

18,097

 

 

 

22,843

 

Stock-based compensation

 

1,971

 

 

 

2,601

 

 

 

3,245

 

 

 

4,358

 

 

 

6,012

 

 

 

7,977

 

Other operating expense (income), net

 

80

 

 

 

282

 

 

 

67

 

 

 

348

 

 

 

200

 

 

 

445

 

Other expense (income), net

 

(7

)

 

 

(769

)

 

 

(142

)

 

 

(204

)

 

 

152

 

 

 

(310

)

Deferred income taxes

 

105

 

 

 

465

 

 

 

520

 

 

 

787

 

 

 

958

 

 

 

1,063

 

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventories

 

(2,100

)

 

 

(672

)

 

 

(1,381

)

 

 

720

 

 

 

(3,826

)

 

 

(1,176

)

Accounts receivable, net and other

 

(2,193

)

 

 

(2,854

)

 

 

(2,594

)

 

 

(1,592

)

 

 

(6,873

)

 

 

(6,680

)

Accounts payable

 

3,668

 

 

 

8,616

 

 

 

(2,716

)

 

 

573

 

 

 

8,060

 

 

 

11,482

 

Accrued expenses and other

 

(623

)

 

 

1,699

 

 

 

(3,556

)

 

 

(1,063

)

 

 

(653

)

 

 

1,110

 

Unearned revenue

 

390

 

 

 

247

 

 

 

1,278

 

 

 

854

 

 

 

1,806

 

 

 

1,286

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

 

9,118

 

 

 

20,606

 

 

 

10,963

 

 

 

23,669

 

 

 

36,029

 

 

 

51,220

 

INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purchases of property and equipment

 

(3,562

)

 

 

(7,459

)

 

 

(6,852

)

 

 

(14,254

)

 

 

(13,938

)

 

 

(24,263

)

Proceeds from property and equipment sales and incentives

 

919

 

 

 

844

 

 

 

1,488

 

 

 

2,212

 

 

 

2,927

 

 

 

4,895

 

Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other

 

(117

)

 

 

(118

)

 

 

(1,285

)

 

 

(210

)

 

 

(2,592

)

 

 

(1,385

)

Sales and maturities of marketable securities

 

5,161

 

 

 

8,138

 

 

 

7,804

 

 

 

19,764

 

 

 

11,706

 

 

 

34,641

 

Purchases of marketable securities

 

(9,950

)

 

 

(19,209

)

 

 

(16,827

)

 

 

(34,210

)

 

 

(22,919

)

 

 

(49,196

)

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

 

(7,549

)

 

 

(17,804

)

 

 

(15,672

)

 

 

(26,698

)

 

 

(24,816

)

 

 

(35,308

)

FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from short-term debt, and other

 

222

 

 

 

2,433

 

 

 

307

 

 

 

3,050

 

 

 

972

 

 

 

4,145

 

Repayments of short-term debt, and other

 

(73

)

 

 

(1,906

)

 

 

(363

)

 

 

(2,537

)

 

 

(958

)

 

 

(3,693

)

Proceeds from long-term debt

 

61

 

 

 

9,918

 

 

 

166

 

 

 

9,994

 

 

 

347

 

 

 

10,699

 

Repayments of long-term debt

 

(39

)

 

 

(205

)

 

 

(101

)

 

 

(241

)

 

 

(122

)

 

 

(1,305

)

Principal repayments of finance leases

 

(2,327

)

 

 

(2,817

)

 

 

(4,541

)

 

 

(5,417

)

 

 

(8,693

)

 

 

(10,504

)

Principal repayments of financing obligations

 

(2

)

 

 

(15

)

 

 

(3

)

 

 

(32

)

 

 

(211

)

 

 

(56

)

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

(2,158

)

 

 

7,408

 

 

 

(4,535

)

 

 

4,817

 

 

 

(8,665

)

 

 

(714

)

Foreign currency effect on cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

 

47

 

 

 

127

 

 

 

36

 

 

 

(356

)

 

 

(119

)

 

 

(321

)

Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash

 

(542

)

 

 

10,337

 

 

 

(9,208

)

 

 

1,432

 

 

 

2,429

 

 

 

14,877

 

CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, END OF PERIOD

$

22,965

 

 

$

37,842

 

 

$

22,965

 

 

$

37,842

 

 

$

22,965

 

 

$

37,842

 

SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid for interest on debt

$

147

 

 

$

139

 

 

$

433

 

 

$

430

 

 

$

837

 

 

$

872

 

Cash paid for operating leases

 

838

 

 

 

1,086

 

 

 

1,547

 

 

 

2,115

 

 

 

1,547

 

 

 

3,929

 

Cash paid for interest on finance leases

 

150

 

 

 

161

 

 

 

315

 

 

 

329

 

 

 

536

 

 

 

662

 

Cash paid for interest on financing obligations

 

4

 

 

 

21

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

43

 

 

 

105

 

 

 

77

 

Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds

 

283

 

 

 

486

 

 

 

451

 

 

 

791

 

 

 

822

 

 

 

1,221

 

Assets acquired under operating leases

 

2,220

 

 

 

3,347

 

 

 

3,094

 

 

 

5,755

 

 

 

3,094

 

 

 

10,530

 

Property and equipment acquired under finance leases

 

3,307

 

 

 

3,155

 

 

 

5,935

 

 

 

5,321

 

 

 

11,944

 

 

 

13,110

 

Property and equipment acquired under build-to-suit arrangements

 

283

 

 

 

482

 

 

 

719

 

 

 

861

 

 

 

2,825

 

 

 

1,504

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(in millions, except per share data)

(unaudited)

 

Three Months Ended

June 30,

 

Six Months Ended

June 30,

 

2019

 

2020

 

2019

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net product sales

$

35,856

 

 

$

50,244

 

 

$

70,139

 

 

$

92,085

 

Net service sales

 

27,548

 

 

 

38,668

 

 

 

52,965

 

 

 

72,279

 

Total net sales

 

63,404

 

 

 

88,912

 

 

 

123,104

 

 

 

164,364

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of sales

 

36,337

 

 

 

52,660

 

 

 

70,257

 

 

 

96,917

 

Fulfillment

 

9,271

 

 

 

13,806

 

 

 

17,872

 

 

 

25,337

 

Technology and content

 

9,065

 

 

 

10,388

 

 

 

16,991

 

 

 

19,713

 

Marketing

 

4,291

 

 

 

4,345

 

 

 

7,955

 

 

 

9,173

 

General and administrative

 

1,270

 

 

 

1,580

 

 

 

2,444

 

 

 

3,032

 

Other operating expense (income), net

 

86

 

 

 

290

 

 

 

81

 

 

 

360

 

Total operating expenses

 

60,320

 

 

 

83,069

 

 

 

115,600

 

 

 

154,532

 

Operating income

 

3,084

 

 

 

5,843

 

 

 

7,504

 

 

 

9,832

 

Interest income

 

215

 

 

 

135

 

 

 

398

 

 

 

337

 

Interest expense

 

(383

)

 

 

(403

)

 

 

(749

)

 

 

(805

)

Other income (expense), net

 

(27

)

 

 

646

 

 

 

138

 

 

 

240

 

Total non-operating income (expense)

 

(195

)

 

 

378

 

 

 

(213

)

 

 

(228

)

Income before income taxes

 

2,889

 

 

 

6,221

 

 

 

7,291

 

 

 

9,604

 

Provision for income taxes

 

(257

)

 

 

(984

)

 

 

(1,094

)

 

 

(1,729

)

Equity-method investment activity, net of tax

 

(7

)

 

 

6

 

 

 

(11

)

 

 

(97

)

Net income

$

2,625

 

 

$

5,243

 

 

$

6,186

 

 

$

7,778

 

Basic earnings per share

$

5.32

 

 

$

10.50

 

 

$

12.57

 

 

$

15.59

 

Diluted earnings per share

$

5.22

 

 

$

10.30

 

 

$

12.31

 

 

$

15.32

 

Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per share:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

493

 

 

 

500

 

 

 

492

 

 

 

499

 

Diluted

 

503

 

 

 

509

 

 

 

503

 

 

 

508

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income

(in millions)

(unaudited)

 

Three Months Ended

June 30,

 

Six Months Ended

June 30,

 

2019

 

2020

 

2019

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

$

2,625

 

 

$

5,243

 

 

$

6,186

 

 

$

7,778

 

Other comprehensive income (loss):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $(6), $(8), $(8) and $13

 

7

 

 

 

207

 

 

 

(1

)

 

 

(668

)

Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $(11), $(73), $(11) and $(61)

 

44

 

 

 

407

 

 

 

76

 

 

 

205

 

Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in “Other income (expense), net,” net of tax of $0, $0, $0 and $0

 

(1

)

 

 

(6

)

 

 

 

 

 

(6

)

Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale debt securities

 

43

 

 

 

401

 

 

 

76

 

 

 

199

 

Total other comprehensive income (loss)

 

50

 

 

 

608

 

 

 

75

 

 

 

(469

)

Comprehensive income

$

2,675

 

 

$

5,851

 

 

$

6,261

 

 

$

7,309

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Segment Information

(in millions)

(unaudited)

 

Three Months Ended

June 30,

 

Six Months Ended

June 30,

 

2019

 

2020

 

2019

 

2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

38,653

 

 

$

55,436

 

 

$

74,465

 

 

$

101,563

 

Operating expenses

 

37,089

 

 

 

53,295

 

 

 

70,614

 

 

 

98,111

 

Operating income

$

1,564

 

 

$

2,141

 

 

$

3,851

 

 

$

3,452

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

16,370

 

 

$

22,668

 

 

$

32,563

 

 

$

41,774

 

Operating expenses

 

16,971

 

 

 

22,323

 

 

 

33,253

 

 

 

41,826

 

Operating income (loss)

$

(601

)

 

$

345

 

 

$

(690

)

 

$

(52

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AWS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

8,381

 

 

$

10,808

 

 

$

16,076

 

 

$

21,027

 

Operating expenses

 

6,260

 

 

 

7,451

 

 

 

11,733

 

 

 

14,595

 

Operating income

$

2,121

 

 

$

3,357

 

 

$

4,343

 

 

$

6,432

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

63,404

 

 

$

88,912

 

 

$

123,104

 

 

$

164,364

 

Operating expenses

 

60,320

 

 

 

83,069

 

 

 

115,600

 

 

 

154,532

 

Operating income

 

3,084

 

 

 

5,843

 

 

 

7,504

 

 

 

9,832

 

Total non-operating income (expense)

 

(195

)

 

 

378

 

 

 

(213

)

 

 

(228

)

Provision for income taxes

 

(257

)

 

 

(984

)

 

 

(1,094

)

 

 

(1,729

)

Equity-method investment activity, net of tax

 

(7

)

 

 

6

 

 

 

(11

)

 

 

(97

)

Net income

$

2,625

 

 

$

5,243

 

 

$

6,186

 

 

$

7,778

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Segment Highlights:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y/Y net sales growth:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America

 

20

%

 

 

43

%

 

 

18

%

 

 

36

%

International

 

12

 

 

 

38

 

 

 

10

 

 

 

28

 

AWS

 

37

 

 

 

29

 

 

 

39

 

 

 

31

 

Consolidated

 

20

 

 

 

40

 

 

 

18

 

 

 

34

 

Net sales mix:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America

 

61

%

 

 

62

%

 

 

61

%

 

 

62

%

International

 

26

 

 

 

26

 

 

 

26

 

 

 

25

 

AWS

 

13

 

 

 

12

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

13

 

Consolidated

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

 

 

100

%

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in millions, except per share data)

 

December 31, 2019

 

June 30, 2020

 

 

 

(unaudited)

ASSETS

 

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

$

36,092

 

 

$

37,466

 

Marketable securities

 

18,929

 

 

 

33,925

 

Inventories

 

20,497

 

 

 

19,599

 

Accounts receivable, net and other

 

20,816

 

 

 

19,918

 

Total current assets

 

96,334

 

 

 

110,908

 

Property and equipment, net

 

72,705

 

 

 

86,517

 

Operating leases

 

25,141

 

 

 

28,537

 

Goodwill

 

14,754

 

 

 

14,751

 

Other assets

 

16,314

 

 

 

17,601

 

Total assets

$

225,248

 

 

$

258,314

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

Accounts payable

$

47,183

 

 

$

51,036

 

Accrued expenses and other

 

32,439

 

 

 

33,863

 

Unearned revenue

 

8,190

 

 

 

8,997

 

Total current liabilities

 

87,812

 

 

 

93,896

 

Long-term lease liabilities

 

39,791

 

 

 

42,798

 

Long-term debt

 

23,414

 

 

 

33,128

 

Other long-term liabilities

 

12,171

 

 

 

14,764

 

Commitments and contingencies

 

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

 

 

 

Preferred stock, $0.01 par value:

 

 

 

Authorized shares — 500

 

 

 

Issued and outstanding shares — none

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock, $0.01 par value:

 

 

 

Authorized shares — 5,000

 

 

 

Issued shares — 521 and 524

 

 

 

Outstanding shares — 498 and 501

 

5

 

 

 

5

 

Treasury stock, at cost

 

(1,837

)

 

 

(1,837

)

Additional paid-in capital

 

33,658

 

 

 

38,017

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(986

)

 

 

(1,455

)

Retained earnings

 

31,220

 

 

 

38,998

 

Total stockholders’ equity

 

62,060

 

 

 

73,728

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

$

225,248

 

 

$

258,314

 

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics

(in millions, except per share data)

(unaudited)

 

Q1 2019

Q2 2019

Q3 2019

Q4 2019

Q1 2020

Q2 2020

Y/Y %

Change

Cash Flows and Shares

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating cash flow — trailing twelve months (TTM)

$

34,360

 

$

36,029

 

$

35,332

 

$

38,514

 

$

39,732

 

$

51,220

 

42

%

Operating cash flow — TTM Y/Y growth

 

89

%

 

65

%

 

33

%

 

25

%

 

16

%

 

42

%

N/A

 

Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives — TTM

$

11,316

 

$

11,011

 

$

11,868

 

$

12,689

 

$

15,395

 

$

19,368

 

76

%

Principal repayments of finance leases — TTM (1)

$

7,649

 

$

8,693

 

$

8,754

 

$

9,628

 

$

10,013

 

$

10,504

 

21

%

Principal repayments of financing obligations — TTM (1)

$

266

 

$

211

 

$

129

 

$

27

 

$

43

 

$

56

 

(73

)%

Equipment acquired under finance leases — TTM (1) (2)

$

10,909

 

$

11,656

 

$

12,580

 

$

12,916

 

$

12,209

 

$

11,952

 

3

%

Principal repayments of all other finance leases — TTM (1) (3)

$

76

 

$

176

 

$

302

 

$

392

 

$

407

 

$

415

 

136

%

Free cash flow — TTM (4)

$

23,044

 

$

25,018

 

$

23,464

 

$

25,825

 

$

24,337

 

$

31,852

 

27

%

Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations

— TTM (1) (5)

$

15,129

 

$

16,114

 

$

14,581

 

$

16,170

 

$

14,281

 

$

21,292

 

32

%

Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations — TTM (1) (6)

$

11,793

 

$

12,975

 

$

10,453

 

$

12,490

 

$

11,678

 

$

19,429

 

50

%

Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding

 

507

 

 

510

 

 

511

 

 

512

 

 

513

 

 

517

 

1

%

Common shares outstanding

 

492

 

 

494

 

 

495

 

 

498

 

 

499

 

 

501

 

1

%

Stock-based awards outstanding

 

15

 

 

16

 

 

16

 

 

14

 

 

14

 

 

16

 

%

Stock-based awards outstanding — % of common shares outstanding

 

3.0

%

 

3.3

%

 

3.2

%

 

2.9

%

 

2.8

%

 

3.2

%

N/A

 

Results of Operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worldwide (WW) net sales

$

59,700

 

$

63,404

 

$

69,981

 

$

87,437

 

$

75,452

 

$

88,912

 

40

%

WW net sales — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

19

%

 

21

%

 

25

%

 

21

%

 

27

%

 

41

%

N/A

 

WW net sales — TTM

$

241,546

 

$

252,064

 

$

265,469

 

$

280,522

 

$

296,274

 

$

321,782

 

28

%

WW net sales — TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

26

%

 

23

%

 

22

%

 

22

%

 

23

%

 

28

%

N/A

 

Operating income

$

4,420

 

$

3,084

 

$

3,157

 

$

3,879

 

$

3,989

 

$

5,843

 

89

%

F/X impact — favorable (unfavorable)

$

84

 

$

58

 

$

22

 

$

16

 

$

63

 

$

111

 

N/A

 

Operating income — Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

125

%

 

1

%

 

(16

)%

 

2

%

 

(11

)%

 

86

%

N/A

 

Operating margin — % of WW net sales

 

7.4

%

 

4.9

%

 

4.5

%

 

4.4

%

 

5.3

%

 

6.6

%

N/A

 

Operating income — TTM

$

14,914

 

$

15,014

 

$

14,448

 

$

14,541

 

$

14,109

 

$

16,868

 

12

%

Operating income — TTM Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

190

%

 

99

%

 

32

%

 

16

%

 

(6

)%

 

11

%

N/A

 

Operating margin — TTM % of WW net sales

 

6.2

%

 

6.0

%

 

5.4

%

 

5.2

%

 

4.8

%

 

5.2

%

N/A

 

Net income

$

3,561

 

$

2,625

 

$

2,134

 

$

3,268

 

$

2,535

 

$

5,243

 

100

%

Net income per diluted share

$

7.09

 

$

5.22

 

$

4.23

 

$

6.47

 

$

5.01

 

$

10.30

 

97

%

Net income — TTM

$

12,005

 

$

12,096

 

$

11,347

 

$

11,588

 

$

10,563

 

$

13,180

 

9

%

Net income per diluted share — TTM

$

23.96

 

$

24.08

 

$

22.57

 

$

23.01

 

$

20.93

 

$

26.04

 

8

%

______________________________

(1)

On January 1, 2019, we adopted accounting guidance amending the accounting for leases, which did not have a material impact on our 2019 operating results. Prior period amounts were not retrospectively adjusted. Under this new guidance, leases we previously referred to as “capital leases” are now referred to as “finance leases.” Leases we previously referred to as “finance leases” are now referred to as “financing obligations.”

(2)

For the twelve months ended June 30, 2019 and 2020, this amount relates to equipment included in “Property and equipment acquired under finance leases” of $11,944 million and $13,110 million.

(3)

For the twelve months ended June 30, 2019 and 2020, this amount relates to property included in “Principal repayments of finance leases” of $8,693 million and $10,504 million.

(4)

Free cash flow is cash flow from operations reduced by “Purchases of property and equipment, net of proceeds from sales and incentives.”

(5)

Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by “Principal repayments of finance leases” and “Principal repayments of financing obligations.”

(6)

Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations is free cash flow reduced by equipment acquired under finance leases, which is included in “Property and equipment acquired under finance leases,” principal repayments of all other finance lease liabilities, which is included in “Principal repayments of finance leases,” and “Principal repayments of financing obligations.”

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics

(in millions)

(unaudited)

 

Q1 2019

Q2 2019

Q3 2019

Q4 2019

Q1 2020

Q2 2020

Y/Y %

Change

Segments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North America Segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

35,812

 

$

38,653

 

$

42,638

 

$

53,670

 

$

46,127

 

$

55,436

 

43

%

Net sales — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

17

%

 

20

%

 

24

%

 

22

%

 

29

%

 

44

%

N/A

 

Net sales — TTM

$

146,453

 

$

152,938

 

$

161,228

 

$

170,773

 

$

181,088

 

$

197,871

 

29

%

Operating income

$

2,287

 

$

1,564

 

$

1,282

 

$

1,900

 

$

1,312

 

$

2,141

 

37

%

F/X impact — favorable (unfavorable)

$

13

 

$

7

 

$

6

 

$

(3

)

$

5

 

$

(4

)

N/A

 

Operating income — Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

98

%

 

(15

)%

 

(37

)%

 

(16

)%

 

(43

)%

 

37

%

N/A

 

Operating margin — % of North America net sales

 

6.4

%

 

4.0

%

 

3.0

%

 

3.5

%

 

2.8

%

 

3.9

%

N/A

 

Operating income — TTM

$

8,405

 

$

8,134

 

$

7,384

 

$

7,033

 

$

6,057

 

$

6,634

 

(18

)%

Operating margin — TTM % of North America net sales

 

5.7

%

 

5.3

%

 

4.6

%

 

4.1

%

 

3.4

%

 

3.4

%

N/A

 

International Segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

16,192

 

$

16,370

 

$

18,348

 

$

23,813

 

$

19,106

 

$

22,668

 

38

%

Net sales — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

16

%

 

17

%

 

21

%

 

15

%

 

20

%

 

41

%

N/A

 

Net sales — TTM

$

67,184

 

$

68,941

 

$

71,740

 

$

74,723

 

$

77,637

 

$

83,935

 

22

%

Operating income (loss)

$

(90

)

$

(601

)

$

(386

)

$

(617

)

$

(398

)

$

345

 

N/A

 

F/X impact — favorable (unfavorable)

$

(39

)

$

(36

)

$

(34

)

$

(7

)

$

(5

)

$

32

 

N/A

 

Operating income/loss — Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X

 

(92

)%

 

15

%

 

(8

)%

 

(5

)%

 

338

%

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

Operating margin — % of International net sales

 

(1.0

)%

 

(3.7

)%

 

(2.1

)%

 

(2.6

)%

 

(2.1

)%

 

1.5

%

N/A

 

Operating income (loss) — TTM

$

(1,610

)

$

(1,718

)

$

(1,718

)

$

(1,693

)

$

(2,001

)

$

(1,055

)

(39

)%

Operating margin — TTM % of International net sales

 

(2.4

)%

 

(2.5

)%

 

(2.4

)%

 

(2.3

)%

 

(2.6

)%

 

(1.3

)%

N/A

 

AWS Segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net sales

$

7,696

 

$

8,381

 

$

8,995

 

$

9,954

 

$

10,219

 

$

10,808

 

29

%

Net sales — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

42

%

 

37

%

 

35

%

 

34

%

 

33

%

 

29

%

N/A

 

Net sales — TTM

$

27,909

 

$

30,185

 

$

32,501

 

$

35,026

 

$

37,549

 

$

39,976

 

32

%

Operating income

$

2,223

 

$

2,121

 

$

2,261

 

$

2,596

 

$

3,075

 

$

3,357

 

58

%

F/X impact — favorable (unfavorable)

$

110

 

$

87

 

$

50

 

$

26

 

$

63

 

$

83

 

N/A

 

Operating income — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

51

%

 

24

%

 

6

%

 

18

%

 

36

%

 

54

%

N/A

 

Operating margin — % of AWS net sales

 

28.9

%

 

25.3

%

 

25.1

%

 

26.1

%

 

30.1

%

 

31.1

%

N/A

 

Operating income — TTM

$

8,119

 

$

8,598

 

$

8,782

 

$

9,201

 

$

10,053

 

$

11,289

 

31

%

Operating margin — TTM % of AWS net sales

 

29.1

%

 

28.5

%

 

27.0

%

 

26.3

%

 

26.8

%

 

28.2

%

N/A

AMAZON.COM, INC.

Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics

(in millions, except employee data)

(unaudited)

 

Q1 2019

Q2 2019

Q3 2019

Q4 2019

Q1 2020

Q2 2020

Y/Y %

Change

Net Sales

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Online stores (1)

$

29,498

 

$

31,053

 

$

35,039

 

$

45,657

 

$

36,652

 

$

45,896

 

48

%

Online stores — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

12

%

 

16

%

 

22

%

 

15

%

 

25

%

 

49

%

N/A

 

Physical stores (2)

$

4,307

 

$

4,330

 

$

4,192

 

$

4,363

 

$

4,640

 

$

3,774

 

(13

)%

Physical stores — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

1

%

 

1

%

 

(1

)%

 

(1

)%

 

8

%

 

(13

)%

N/A

 

Third-party seller services (3)

$

11,141

 

$

11,962

 

$

13,212

 

$

17,446

 

$

14,479

 

$

18,195

 

52

%

Third-party seller services — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

23

%

 

25

%

 

28

%

 

31

%

 

31

%

 

53

%

N/A

 

Subscription services (4)

$

4,342

 

$

4,676

 

$

4,957

 

$

5,235

 

$

5,556

 

$

6,018

 

29

%

Subscription services — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

42

%

 

39

%

 

35

%

 

32

%

 

29

%

 

30

%

N/A

 

AWS

$

7,696

 

$

8,381

 

$

8,995

 

$

9,954

 

$

10,219

 

$

10,808

 

29

%

AWS — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

42

%

 

37

%

 

35

%

 

34

%

 

33

%

 

29

%

N/A

 

Other (5)

$

2,716

 

$

3,002

 

$

3,586

 

$

4,782

 

$

3,906

 

$

4,221

 

41

%

Other — Y/Y growth, excluding F/X

 

36

%

 

37

%

 

45

%

 

41

%

 

44

%

 

41

%

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock-based Compensation Expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of sales

$

24

 

$

43

 

$

39

 

$

43

 

$

41

 

$

76

 

79

%

Fulfillment

$

234

 

$

360

 

$

301

 

$

286

 

$

260

 

$

417

 

16

%

Technology and content

$

675

 

$

1,077

 

$

966

 

$

1,007

 

$

961

 

$

1,421

 

32

%

Marketing

$

209

 

$

307

 

$

298

 

$

322

 

$

332

 

$

456

 

49

%

General and administrative

$

132

 

$

184

 

$

175

 

$

182

 

$

163

 

$

231

 

25

%

Total stock-based compensation expense

$

1,274

 

$

1,971

 

$

1,779

 

$

1,840

 

$

1,757

 

$

2,601

 

32

%

Other

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WW shipping costs

$

7,320

 

$

8,134

 

$

9,608

 

$

12,884

 

$

10,936

 

$

13,652

 

68

%

WW shipping costs — Y/Y growth

 

21

%

 

36

%

 

46

%

 

43

%

 

49

%

 

68

%

N/A

 

WW paid units — Y/Y growth (6)

 

10

%

 

18

%

 

22

%

 

22

%

 

32

%

 

57

%

N/A

 

WW seller unit mix — % of WW paid units (6)

 

53

%

 

54

%

 

53

%

 

53

%

 

52

%

 

53

%

N/A

 

Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel)

 

630,600

 

 

653,300

 

 

750,000

 

 

798,000

 

 

840,400

 

 

876,800

 

34

%

Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) — Y/Y growth

 

12

%

 

13

%

 

22

%

 

23

%

 

33

%

 

34

%

N/A

 

________________________

(1)

Includes product sales and digital media content where we record revenue gross. We leverage our retail infrastructure to offer a wide selection of consumable and durable goods that includes media products available in both a physical and digital format, such as books, music, videos, games, and software. These product sales include digital products sold on a transactional basis. Digital product subscriptions that provide unlimited viewing or usage rights are included in “Subscription services.”

(2)

Includes product sales where our customers physically select items in a store. Sales from customers who order goods online for delivery or pickup at our physical stores are included in “Online stores.”

(3)

Includes commissions and any related fulfillment and shipping fees, and other third-party seller services.

(4)

Includes annual and monthly fees associated with Amazon Prime memberships, as well as audiobook, digital video, digital music, e-book, and other non-AWS subscription services.

(5)

Primarily includes sales of advertising services, as well as sales related to our other service offerings.

(6)

Excludes the impact of Whole Foods Market.

Amazon.com, Inc.

Certain Definitions

Customer Accounts

  • References to customers mean customer accounts established when a customer places an order through one of our stores. Customer accounts exclude certain customers, including customers associated with certain of our acquisitions, Amazon Payments customers, AWS customers, and the customers of select companies with whom we have a technology alliance or marketing and promotional relationship. Customers are considered active when they have placed an order during the preceding twelve-month period.

Seller Accounts

  • References to sellers means seller accounts, which are established when a seller receives an order from a customer account. Sellers are considered active when they have received an order from a customer during the preceding twelve-month period.

AWS Customers

  • References to AWS customers mean unique AWS customer accounts, which are unique customer account IDs that are eligible to use AWS services. This includes AWS accounts in the AWS free tier. Multiple users accessing AWS services via one account ID are counted as a single account. Customers are considered active when they have had AWS usage activity during the preceding one-month period.

Units

  • References to units mean physical and digital units sold (net of returns and cancellations) by us and sellers in our stores as well as Amazon-owned items sold in other stores. Units sold are paid units and do not include units associated with AWS, certain acquisitions, certain subscriptions, rental businesses, or advertising businesses, or Amazon gift cards.

 

Christian Advocacy Groups Criticize Trump Administration’s Decision Not to Allow New DACA Applications

Christian Advocacy Groups Criticize Trump Administration’s Decision Not to Allow New DACA Applications


Some Christian advocacy groups are criticizing the Trump administration’s announcement that it will not allow new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo saying that it would allow DACA recipients to renew their status after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a plan that would have ended the program.

The DHS memo, issued by Acting Secretary Chad Wolf, also ordered that all new and pending applications to the program be rejected.

According to the Christian Post, Christian leaders have responded to the memo, expressing worry that the order could put some 300,000 young people at risk.

“While we’re grateful that the administration has not, at this point, again sought to terminate DACA, today’s actions present new hardships for Dreamers, requiring a renewal application and accompanying fee on a more regular basis and seeking to prevent new applicants,” said Scott Arbeiter, president of the National Association of Evangelical’s humanitarian arm, World Relief.

“Furthermore, the memo makes clear that rescission is still ultimately quite possible, which means that hundreds of thousands of young people will continue to live with the fear that the government may ultimately mandate the loss of their jobs or even deport them to countries that they cannot even…

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‘I Have a Savior That Forgave Me’: Amputee Alleviates Drunk Driver of $2.5 Million Debt following Car Accident

‘I Have a Savior That Forgave Me’: Amputee Alleviates Drunk Driver of $2.5 Million Debt following Car Accident


Despite growing up in a Christian household, Darrin Ray believed that he was unloved by God because of all of the hardships he had to endure.

In an interview with The Christian PostRay recalled how God would providentially work through it all in a powerful testimony of forgiveness. Ray’s story was also featured on I Am Second, a non-profit organization that features the stories of Christians with life-changing testimonies.

Ray was born with a bilateral cleft palate which meant he had no roof to his mouth or upper lip. On top of having to undergo several surgeries because of his bilateral cleft palate, Ray also often became the target of bullying and mockery from his peers.

Later in life, however, Ray seemed to have caught a break. He was married, had started a family, and was earning a stable income. Simultaneously, Ray was studying Christian counseling in seminary as he believed God was calling him into the ministry.

Then on August 20, 2006, Ray’s life was changed forever.

Ray was in the car with his daughter on their way to church when they were struck by a drunk driver.

“I had gotten up that morning to go to church,” Ray recalled. “My daughter was in the backseat, and I got about a mile from my home in a 20-mile-an-hour school zone when a man who was intoxicated and high on prescription pills came the other way going 60 miles an…

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300 Female Athletes Urge NCAA: Protect Women’s Sports from Transgender Overreach

300 Female Athletes Urge NCAA: Protect Women’s Sports from Transgender Overreach


More than 300 current and former college and professional female athletes signed a July 29 letter to the NCAA urging it to reject calls for a boycott of Idaho due to a new law that protects the integrity of women’s sports.

At issue is the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, an Idaho law that requires biological sex – and not gender identity – to be used in determining who plays on high school and college teams. The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the NCAA to boycott Idaho, saying the law harms transgender athletes.

A coalition known as Save Women’s Sports supports the Idaho law and is urging the NCAA not to take action. On July 29, Save Women’s Sports sent a letter to the NCAA signed by more than 300 current and former professional, Olympic and collegiate female athletes, including Olympic gold medalist swimmer Donna de Varona and bronze medalist cyclist Jennifer Wagner-Assali.

In Connecticut, two transgender athletes who are biologically male but identify as females won 15 state track titles.

The letter urges the NCAA not to give in to “bullying tactics” that are “antithetical to the NCAA values of respect, fairness, and civility.”

“Fairness for female athletes should not be a political or partisan issue,” the letter says. “We athletes have diverse views on many topics, but stand united on this fact: protecting the integrity of women’s sports…

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New Alzheimer’s test could detect disease decades earlier: A call to steward God’s image

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A newly developed blood test is showing real promise in identifying signs of Alzheimer’s disease as much as twenty years before symptoms become noticeable. The test could be available for widespread use in two to three years, though doctors warn that detection is not the same as a cure.

However, the test could still be an important step in that direction.

One of the main reasons why this development is great news is that accurately and expediently identifying patients to study has long been a limiting factor in existing research for both understanding the disease and working toward a cure. The hope is that by increasing the pool of people who could help with such studies, scientists can make greater strides in finding treatments to help those struggling with the associated memory loss and cognitive degeneration.

Considering that nearly six million people in the United States, and around thirty million worldwide, suffer from the disease, finding better solutions could help a lot of people. That those numbers are expected to double by 2050 only increases the importance of the research.

Few diseases are more insidious than Alzheimer’s. While cancer, for example, can require painful and debilitating treatments that come with no guarantees of success—something I’ve experienced firsthand as a cancer survivor—Alzheimer’s and others like it rob you of life long before they bring about your death. They leave people trapped inside their bodies with just enough understanding that something’s wrong to make the inability to grasp what’s been lost utterly infuriating.

A call to steward God’s image

While no disease could ever fully remove the image of God with which every person was created, Alzheimer’s perhaps comes closest when you consider that what we mirror of the divine is less about physical presence than the capacity to shape and steward the world around us.

In light of that reality, I want to challenge…

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Pastor in Nepal Jailed for More Than Three Months Released on Bail

Pastor in Nepal Jailed for More Than Three Months Released on Bail


HYDERABAD, India, July 29, 2020 (Morning Star News) – A pastor arrested in Nepal in March on charges that violate religious rights, and then re-arrested moments after release in April, was released after paying an exorbitant bail this month, sources said.

First arrested on March 23 on charges of spreading false information for saying prayers can heal the novel coronavirus, pastor Keshab Raj Acharya had been released on April 8 only to be re-arrested moments later on charges of “outraging religious feelings” and “proselytizing.” After more than three months in prison, where he led several prisoners to faith in Christ, he was released on July 3 after paying bail equal to about $2,500, sources said.

“It was very difficult for me,” Pastor Acharya told Morning Star News. “I would think of my little children and my wife, and I would cry out to the Lord in prayer. I would look up at Him in hope that if it is in His will that I should be put through this, He would get me out of this.”

Government officials and police worked together against him, he said.

“They were laying a thorough plan to make sure I would stay in the jail for a longer period,” Pastor Acharya said.

The charges against the father of two young children violate a freedom of religion agreement to which Nepal is a signatory, rights advocates and Christian leaders in the Himalayan country said.

During his initial…

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