SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2017-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2016.

Operating cash flow increased 38% to $16.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Free cash flowincreased to $9.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $7.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Free cash flow less lease principal repayments increased to $5.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $4.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases increased to $3.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $2.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015.

Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 497 million on December 31, 2016, compared with 490 million one year ago.

Fourth Quarter 2016

Net sales increased 22% to $43.7 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $35.7 billion in fourth quarter 2015. Excluding the $558 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 24% compared with fourth quarter 2015.

Operating income increased 13% to $1.3 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $1.1 billion in fourth quarter 2015.

Net income was $749 million in the fourth quarter, or $1.54 per diluted share, compared with net income of $482 million, or $1.00 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2015.

Full Year 2016

Net sales increased 27% to $136.0 billion, compared with $107.0 billion in 2015. Excluding the $550 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, net sales increased 28% compared with 2015.

Operating income was $4.2 billion, compared with operating income of $2.2 billion in 2015.

Net income was $2.4 billion, or $4.90 per diluted share, compared with net income of $596 million, or $1.25 per diluted share, in 2015.

“Our Prime team’s customer obsession kept them busy in 2016,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “Prime members can now choose from over 50 million items with free two-day shipping — up 73% since 2015. Prime Video is now available in more than 200 countries and territories. Prime Now added 18 new cities, which means millions more members now get one and two hour delivery. New benefits were also added to the list, like Prime Reading, Audible Channels for Prime, Twitch Prime and more. And customers noticed — tens of millions of new paid members joined the program in just this past year.”

Highlights

  • Amazon announced that it will create more than 100,000 new, full-time, full-benefit jobs in the U.S. over the next 18 months, and will include positions across the country for all types of experience, education, and skill levels.
  • Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) delivered more than two billion units on behalf of sellers in 2016, and the number of active sellers using FBA grew more than 70%. Using the FBA service, Amazon sellers from more than 130 countries fulfilled orders to customers in 185 countries.
  • In 2016, there were over 100,000 sellers with sales of more than $100,000 selling on Amazon.
  • In the fourth quarter, FBA units represented more than 55% of total third-party units.
  • Amazon introduced Amazon Go in Seattle, a new kind of store with no checkout required. With Just Walk Out Shopping, customers simply take the products they want, and go. Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in self-driving cars: computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning.
  • In 2016, the U.S. Prime program added Prime Reading, Twitch Prime, Audible Channels for Prime, and the Prime Photo Family Vault as new Prime-exclusive digital benefits.
  • Prime members engaged with the Prime digital benefits at a voracious rate, more than doubling the number of video, music, and reading activities compared to 2015.
  • Amazon introduced Prime Video to customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe, giving customers access to unlimited streaming of Amazon’s popular and award-winning Original Series, including The Grand TourThe Man in the High Castle, and Transparent, as well as popular Hollywood movies and TV shows. Prime Video is now automatically available at no additional cost to Amazon Prime members in Belgium, Canada, France, India, Italy, and Spain.
  • Prime Video is now available on Amazon.in, offering Prime members in India the largest selection of new release Bollywood and regional Indian blockbusters, Hollywood movies, day-after-broadcast U.S. TV shows, kids’ programming, and award-winning Amazon Original Series. Amazon also announced the start of production of new Indian Amazon Original Series featuring top Indian talent and filmmakers, which will be available exclusively to Prime members in India.
  • The debut episode of The Grand Tour was the biggest show premiere ever on Prime Video, with millions of Prime members streaming the first episode in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria, and Japan over the opening weekend.
  • Amazon Studios released Manchester by the SeaThe SalesmanPaterson, and Gimme Danger in theaters nationwide.
  • Amazon Studios was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture (Manchester by the Sea), Best Director (Kenneth Lonergan), and Best Foreign Language Film (The Salesman).
  • Amazon Studios was nominated for 11 Golden Globes and received two awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea, and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Billy Bob Thornton in Goliath.
  • Amazon Music Unlimited expanded to Austria, Germany, and the U.K. with over 40 million songs, hand-curated playlists, and personalized stations. Prime members in those countries can access Amazon Music Unlimited at a breakthrough price (€7.99/£7.99 per month), while the exclusive “for Echo” subscription plan is available to all customers for only €3.99/£3.99 per month. All customers listening to Amazon Music Unlimited on Echo, Echo Dot, or Amazon Tap can access their favorite music with new natural language voice controls powered by Alexa.
  • Alexa-enabled devices were the top-selling products across all categories on Amazon.com this holiday season. Customers purchased and gifted a record-setting number of devices from the Amazon Echo family with sales up over 9x compared to last holiday season.
  • Customers purchased millions of Fire tablets this holiday season. Additionally, Amazon brought Alexa to Fire HD 10, Fire HD 8, and other Fire tablets via a free software update, making it easy for customers to enjoy endless entertainment at the touch of a button.
  • Amazon sold millions of Fire TV devices this holiday season. The new Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote has received over 25,000 5-star customer reviews in just three months, and Amazon released a free, over-the-air software update delivering a new user interface that makes finding what to watch next even easier and more enjoyable.
  • Third-party developers released more than 4,000 new Alexa Skills since October, including ADT, AT&T, CBS, Pizza Hut, and The Wall Street Journal. Tens of thousands of developers are building skills for Alexa.
  • Tens of thousands of developers are using the Alexa Voice Service to integrate Alexa into their products, including Dish DVRs, Ford and Volkswagen vehicles, GE C Lamp, Huawei Mate 9, LG Smart Instaview fridge, and Whirlpool appliances.
  • Amazon selected 12 teams to participate in the inaugural Alexa Prize, an annual university competition dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational artificial intelligence. The teams are building socialbots on Alexa that will converse with humans on popular topics and news events, and the winner will be announced at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2017.
  • Dash Button is now available in a number of countries throughout Europe and Japan. Prime members can now order hundreds of products from dozens of popular brands with the press of a button.
  • Amazon launched Prime in China, offering Prime members unlimited, free cross-border shipping on millions of authentic international products from the Amazon Global Store and unlimited, free shipping with no minimum purchase on more than nine million domestic items.
  • Amazon Launchpad expanded to Canada, India, and Japan and has worked with over 100 leading venture capital firms, startup accelerators, and crowd-funding platforms to help startups launch products in China, France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.
  • Amazon and Chase introduced the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card offering Prime members 5% back at Amazon.com, 2% back at restaurants, gas stations, and drugstores, and 1% back on every other purchase.
  • Amazon Prime Air, the service that uses drones to safely deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or less, made its first delivery in December. The delivery marks the start of a limited, private trial for customers in a select area of the U.K.
  • Amazon announced six renewable energy projects during the quarter, including Amazon Wind Farm U.S. Central 2 in Ohio and five new solar farms across the Commonwealth of Virginia, which support the development of an additional 369 megawatts of renewable energy.
  • With millions of active customers, AWS continues to grow, and enterprise customers have committed to migrating tens of thousands of applications to AWS, including: Workday selected AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider for customer production workloads; Capital One selected AWS as its predominant cloud infrastructure provider; shipping carrier Matson has closed all of its data centers, completing an “all-in” migration to AWS; McDonald’s is transforming its digital-facing properties with AWS; the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is going “all-in” on AWS for their data analytics platform, which analyzes up to 75 billion market events daily; and Enel has already moved more than 5,000 servers to AWS as it transforms its technology infrastructure on AWS.
  • AWS hosted re:Invent 2016, its fifth annual customer and partner conference, with over 30,000 attendees and over 50,000 streaming participants.
  • AWS accelerated its infrastructure expansion in 2016, opening eleven Availability Zones across five geographic regions in the U.S., Korea, India, and most recently, Canada and the U.K. AWS now operates 42 Availability Zones across 16 infrastructure regions globally and plans to open an additional five Availability Zones in two regions (France and a second region in China) in the coming months.
  • AWS announced that customers migrated more than 18,000 databases using the AWS Database Migration Service in 2016.
  • AWS continues to accelerate its pace of innovation with the release of 308 significant new services and features in the fourth quarter, bringing the total number of launches in 2016 to 1,017.
  • AWS announced three Artificial Intelligence (AI) services that make it easy for any developer to build apps that can understand natural language, turn text into lifelike speech, have conversations using voice or text, analyze images and recognize faces, objects, and scenes. Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition are based on the same proven, highly scalable AI technology built by the thousands of deep learning and machine learning experts across Amazon. AWS also announced a significant investment in MXNet, an open source distributed deep learning framework. AWS will contribute code and improve the MXNet developer experience to enable machine learning scientists to build scalable deep learning models that can significantly reduce the training time for their applications.
  • AWS announced Amazon Athena, a pay-as-you-go, interactive query service that makes it easy for customers to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can point Amazon Athena at their data stored in Amazon S3 and begin using standard SQL to run queries and get results in seconds. With Amazon Athena there are no clusters to manage and tune, no infrastructure to setup or manage, and customers pay only for the queries they run.
  • AWS announced AWS Greengrass and AWS Snowball Edge, hybrid services that help customers extend the power of the AWS Cloud to connected devices and other environments that exist beyond the network edge.
  • AWS announced AWS Snowmobile, an Exabyte-scale data transfer service that customers can use to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. Each Snowmobile is a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container pulled by a semi-trailer truck that is capable of moving up to 100 PB of data — from video libraries and image repositories to entire data centers — to the AWS Cloud in as little as a few weeks.
  • AWS announced seven new compute services and capabilities to support an even wider range of applications, introducing the next generations of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Memory Optimized, Compute Optimized, and High input/output (I/O) instances, adding a way for customers to get started quickly with virtual private servers (VPS) through Amazon Lightsail, and delivering hardware acceleration with Elastic GPUs and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-enabled F1 instances.
  • AWS announced the expansion of Amazon Aurora to include full PostgreSQL compatibility. With Amazon Aurora’s new PostgreSQL support, customers can get up to several times better performance than the typical PostgreSQL database and take advantage of the scalability, durability, and security capabilities of Amazon Aurora — all for one-tenth the cost of commercial grade databases.
  • AWS announced the general availability of Amazon QuickSight, a very fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy for all employees, regardless of their technical skill, to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from their data at one-tenth the cost of traditional solutions.

Financial Guidance

The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com’s expectations as of February 2, 2017, 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.

First Quarter 2017 Guidance

  • Net sales are expected to be between $33.25 billion and $35.75 billion, or to grow between 14% and 23% compared with first quarter 2016. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately $730 million or 250 basis points from foreign exchange rates.
  • Operating income is expected to be between $250 million and $900 million, compared with $1.1 billion in first quarter 2016.
  • 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 www.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 legal proceedings and claims, 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, 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, the current global economic climate amplifies 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.

Our investor relations website is www.amazon.com/ir and we encourage investors to use it as a way of easily finding information about us. We promptly make available on this website, free of charge, the reports that we file or furnish with the SEC, corporate governance information (including our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics), and select press releases and social media postings, which may contain material information about us, and you may subscribe to be notified of new information posted to this site.

About Amazon

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about.

 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in millions)
 
   

Three Months Ended
December 31,

  

Twelve Months Ended
December 31,

   2015  2016  2015  2016
   (unaudited)      
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD  $10,709   $13,656   $14,557   $15,890 
OPERATING ACTIVITIES:            
Net income  482   749   596   2,371 
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operating activities:            
Depreciation of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, and other amortization, including capitalized content costs  1,752   2,297   6,281   8,116 
Stock-based compensation  606   887   2,119   2,975 
Other operating expense, net  35   31   155   160 
Other expense (income), net  80   21   250   (20)
Deferred income taxes  190   (282)  81   (246)
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation  93   (336)  (119)  (829)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:            
Inventories  (1,343)  (1,043)  (2,187)  (1,426)
Accounts receivable, net and other  (1,178)  (1,924)  (1,755)  (3,367)
Accounts payable  6,140   7,283   4,294   5,030 
Accrued expenses and other  1,836   2,254   913   1,724 
Additions to unearned revenue  2,422   3,975   7,401   11,931 
Amortization of previously unearned revenue  (2,303)  (3,261)  (6,109)  (9,976)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities  8,812   10,651   11,920   16,443 
INVESTING ACTIVITIES:            
Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, net  (1,309)  (2,005)  (4,589)  (6,737)
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other  (317)  (3)  (795)  (116)
Sales and maturities of marketable securities  1,135   1,233   3,025   4,733 
Purchases of marketable securities  (1,359)  (3,399)  (4,091)  (7,756)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities  (1,850)  (4,174)  (6,450)  (9,876)
FINANCING ACTIVITIES:            
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation  (93)  336   119   829 
Proceeds from long-term debt and other  93   537   353   621 
Repayments of long-term debt and other  (940)  (84)  (1,652)  (354)
Principal repayments of capital lease obligations  (724)  (1,004)  (2,462)  (3,860)
Principal repayments of finance lease obligations  (26)  (41)  (121)  (147)
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities  (1,690)  (256)  (3,763)  (2,911)
Foreign currency effect on cash and cash equivalents  (91)  (543)  (374)  (212)
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents  5,181   5,678   1,333   3,444 
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD  $15,890   $19,334   $15,890   $19,334 
SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:            
Cash paid for interest on long-term debt  $148   $144   $325   $290 
Cash paid for interest on capital and finance lease obligations  44   61   153   206 
Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds  73   95   273   412 
Property and equipment acquired under capital leases  1,332   2,038   4,717   5,704 
Property and equipment acquired under build-to-suit leases  163   416   544   1,209 
                 
 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in millions, except per share data)
 
   Three Months Ended
December 31,
  Twelve Months Ended
December 31,
   2015  2016  2015  2016
   (unaudited)      
Net product sales  $26,618   $30,629   $79,268   $94,665 
Net service sales  9,129   13,112   27,738   41,322 
Total net sales  35,747   43,741   107,006   135,987 
Operating expenses:            
Cost of sales  24,341   28,958   71,651   88,265 
Fulfillment  4,546   5,719   13,410   17,619 
Marketing  1,755   2,513   5,254   7,233 
Technology and content  3,571   4,545   12,540   16,085 
General and administrative  390   717   1,747   2,432 
Other operating expense, net  36   34   171   167 
Total operating expenses  34,639   42,486   104,773   131,801 
Operating income  1,108   1,255   2,233   4,186 
Interest income  13   30   50   100 
Interest expense  (115)  (133)  (459)  (484)
Other income (expense), net  (68)  14   (256)  90 
Total non-operating income (expense)  (170)  (89)  (665)  (294)
Income before income taxes  938   1,166   1,568   3,892 
Provision for income taxes  (453)  (414)  (950)  (1,425)
Equity-method investment activity, net of tax  (3)  (3)  (22)  (96)
Net income  $482   $749   $596   $2,371 
Basic earnings per share  $1.03   $1.57   $1.28   $5.01 
Diluted earnings per share  $1.00   $1.54   $1.25   $4.90 
Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per share:            
Basic  470   476   467   474 
Diluted  481   486   477   484 
                 
 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)
(in millions)
 
   Three Months Ended
December 31,
  Twelve Months Ended
December 31,
   2015  2016  2015  2016
   (unaudited)      
Net income  $482   $749   $596   $2,371 
Other comprehensive income (loss):            
Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $7, $(68), $10, and $(49)  (40)  (412)  (210)  (279)
Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities:            
Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $1, $22, $(5), and $(12)  (9)  (54)  (7)  9 
Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in “Other income (expense), net,” net of tax of $0, $0, $0, and $0  1   3   5   8 
Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities  (8)  (51)  (2)  17 

Total other comprehensive income (loss)

  (48)  (463)  (212)  (262)
Comprehensive income (loss)  $434   $286   $384   $2,109 
                     
 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Segment Information
(in millions)
 
   Three Months Ended
December 31,
  Twelve Months Ended
December 31,
   2015  2016  2015  2016
   (unaudited)      
North America            
Net sales  $21,501   $26,240   $63,708   $79,785 
Operating expenses  20,498   24,916   60,957   75,686 
Operating income before stock-based compensation and other  1,003   1,324   2,751   4,099 
Stock-based compensation and other  367   508   1,326   1,738 
Operating income  $636   $816   $1,425   $2,361 
International            
Net sales  $11,841   $13,965   $35,418   $43,983 
Operating expenses  11,781   14,219   35,509   44,460 
Operating income (loss) before stock-based compensation and other  60   (254)  (91)  (477)
Stock-based compensation and other  168   233   608   806 
Operating income (loss)  $(108)  $(487)  $(699)  $(1,283)
AWS            
Net sales  $2,405   $3,536   $7,880   $12,219 
Operating expenses  1,718   2,430   6,017   8,513 
Operating income before stock-based compensation and other  687   1,106   1,863   3,706 
Stock-based compensation and other  107   180   356   598 
Operating income  $580   $926   $1,507   $3,108 
Consolidated            
Net sales  $35,747   $43,741   $107,006   $135,987 
Operating expenses  33,997   41,565   102,483   128,659 
Operating income before stock-based compensation and other  1,750   2,176   4,523   7,328 
Stock-based compensation and other  642   921   2,290   3,142 
Operating income  1,108   1,255   2,233   4,186 
Total non-operating income (expense)  (170)  (89)  (665)  (294)
Provision for income taxes  (453)  (414)  (950)  (1,425)
Equity-method investment activity, net of tax  (3)  (3)  (22)  (96)
Net income  $482   $749   $596   $2,371 
Segment Highlights:            
Y/Y net sales growth:            
North America  24%  22%  25%  25%
International  12   18   6   24 
AWS  69   47   70   55 
Consolidated  22   22   20   27 
Net sales mix:            
North America  60%  60%  60%  59%
International  33   32   33   32 
AWS  7   8   7   9 
Consolidated  100%  100%  100%  100%
                 
 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Net Sales Information
(in millions)
 
   Three Months Ended
December 31,
  Twelve Months Ended
December 31,
   2015  2016  2015  2016
   (unaudited)      
Net Sales:            
North America            
Media  $3,931   $4,208   $12,483   $13,580 
Electronics and other general merchandise  17,325   21,590   50,401   64,887 
Other (1)  245   442   824   1,318 
Total North America  $21,501   $26,240   $63,708   $79,785 
International            
Media  $3,292   $3,377   $10,026   $10,631 
Electronics and other general merchandise  8,491   10,514   25,196   33,107 
Other (1)  58   74   196   245 
Total International  $11,841   $13,965   $35,418   $43,983 
             
Year-over-year Percentage Growth:            
North America            
Media  11%  7%  8%  9%
Electronics and other general merchandise  28   25   31   29 
Other  (6)  81   10   60 
Total North America  24   22   25   25 
International            
Media  (3)%  3%  (8)%  6%
Electronics and other general merchandise  19   24   13   31 
Other  (3)  26   (3)  25 
Total International  12   18   6   24 
Year-over-year Percentage Growth, excluding the effect of foreign exchange rates:            
North America            
Media  12%  7%  8%  9%
Electronics and other general merchandise  28   25   31   29 
Other  (6)  81   10   60 
Total North America  24   22   26   25 
International            
Media  5%  7%  4%  7%
Electronics and other general merchandise  31   28   29   33 
Other  5   36   10   30 
Total International  22   23   21   26 
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(1) Includes sales from non-retail activities, such as certain advertising services and our co-branded credit card agreements.
 
 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in millions, except per share data)
 
   December 31, 2015  December 31, 2016
ASSETS      
Current assets:      
Cash and cash equivalents  $15,890   $19,334 
Marketable securities  3,918   6,647 
Inventories  10,243   11,461 
Accounts receivable, net and other  5,654   8,339 
Total current assets  35,705   45,781 
Property and equipment, net  21,838   29,114 
Goodwill  3,759   3,784 
Other assets  3,445   4,723 
Total assets  $64,747   $83,402 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY      
Current liabilities:      
Accounts payable  $20,397   $25,309 
Accrued expenses and other  10,372   13,739 
Unearned revenue  3,118   4,768 
Total current liabilities  33,887   43,816 
Long-term debt  8,227   7,694 
Other long-term liabilities  9,249   12,607 
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 — 494 and 500      
Outstanding shares — 471 and 477  5   5 
Treasury stock, at cost  (1,837)  (1,837)
Additional paid-in capital  13,394   17,186 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss  (723)  (985)
Retained earnings  2,545   4,916 
Total stockholders’ equity  13,384   19,285 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity  $64,747   $83,402 
           
 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions, except per share data)
(unaudited)
 
   Q3 2015  Q4 2015  Q1 2016  Q2 2016  Q3 2016  Q4 2016  

Y/Y %
Change

Cash Flows and Shares                     
Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM)  $9,823   $11,920   $11,258   $12,726   $14,603   $16,443   38%
Operating cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth  72%  74%  44%  42%  49%  38%  N/A 
Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, net -- TTM  $4,424   $4,589   $4,897   $5,395   $6,040   $6,737   47%
Principal repayments of capital lease obligations -- TTM  $2,144   $2,462   $2,761   $3,298   $3,579   $3,860   57%
Principal repayments of finance lease obligations -- TTM  $163   $121   $111   $108   $131   $147   21%
Property and equipment acquired under capital leases -- TTM  $4,599   $4,717   $4,638   $4,676   $4,998   $5,704   21%
Free cash flow -- TTM (1)  $5,399   $7,331   $6,361   $7,331   $8,563   $9,706   32%
Free cash flow less lease principal repayments -- TTM (2)  $3,092   $4,748   $3,489   $3,925   $4,853   $5,699   20%
Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases -- TTM (3)  $637   $2,493   $1,612   $2,547   $3,434   $3,855   55%
Invested capital (4)  $28,860   $31,393   $32,824   $34,695   $36,722   $39,126   25%
Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding  489   490   490   495   496   497   1%
Common shares outstanding  469   471   472   474   475   477   1%
Stock-based awards outstanding  20   19   18   21   21   20   4%
Stock-based awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding  4.3%  4.1%  3.9%  4.4%  4.4%  4.2%  N/A 
Results of Operations                     
Worldwide (WW) net sales  $25,358   $35,747   $29,128   $30,404   $32,714   $43,741   22%
WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  30%  26%  29%  30%  29%  24%  N/A 
WW net sales -- TTM  $100,588   $107,006   $113,418   $120,637   $127,993   $135,987   27%
WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  24%  26%  28%  29%  28%  28%  N/A 
Operating income  $406   $1,108   $1,071   $1,285   $575   $1,255   13%
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable)  $25   $20   $50   $45   $8   $7   N/A 
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  N/A  84%  300%  168%  40%  13%  N/A 
Operating margin -- % of WW net sales  1.6%  3.1%  3.7%  4.2%  1.8%  2.9%  N/A 
Operating income -- TTM  $1,715   $2,233   $3,049   $3,871   $4,040   $4,186   87%
Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  N/A  N/A  933%  388%  128%  83%  N/A 
Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales  1.7%  2.1%  2.7%  3.2%  3.2%  3.1%  N/A 
Net income  $79   $482   $513   $857   $252   $749   55%
Net income per diluted share  $0.17   $1.00   $1.07   $1.78   $0.52   $1.54   54%
Net income -- TTM  $328   $596   $1,166   $1,931   $2,105   $2,371   298%
Net income per diluted share -- TTM  $0.69   $1.25   $2.43   $4.02   $4.38   $4.90   292%
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(1) Free cash flow is cash flow from operations reduced by “Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, net,” which is included in cash flow from investing activities.
(2) Free cash flow less lease principal repayments is free cash flow reduced by “Principal repayments of capital lease obligations,” and “Principal repayments of finance lease obligations,” which are included in cash flow from financing activities.
(3) Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases is free cash flow reduced by “Principal repayments of finance lease obligations,” which are included in cash flow from financing activities, and property and equipment acquired under capital leases. In this measure, property and equipment acquired under capital leases is reflected as if these assets had been purchased with cash, which is not the case as these assets have been leased.
(4) Average Total Assets minus Current Liabilities (excluding current portion of Long-Term Debt and current portion of capital lease obligations and finance lease obligations) over five quarter ends.
 
 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions)
(unaudited)
 
   Q3 2015  Q4 2015  Q1 2016  Q2 2016  Q3 2016  Q4 2016  

Y/Y %
Change

Segments                     
North America Segment:                     
Net sales  $15,006   $21,501   $16,996   $17,674   $18,874   $26,240   22%
Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  29%  24%  27%  28%  26%  22%  N/A 
Net sales -- TTM  $59,540   $63,708   $67,299   $71,176   $75,045   $79,785   25%
Operating income before stock-based compensation and other:                     
Operating income  $528   $1,003   $924   $1,157   $694   $1,324   32%
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  N/A   36%  78%  64%  30%  30%  N/A 
Operating margin -- % of North America net sales  3.5%  4.7%  5.4%  6.6%  3.7%  5.0%  N/A 
Operating income -- TTM  $2,480   $2,751   $3,157   $3,611   $3,778   $4,099   49%
Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales  4.2%  4.3%  4.7%  5.1%  5.0%  5.1%  N/A 
Operating Income:                     
Operating income  $186   $636   $588   $702   $255   $816   28%
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable)  $11   $6   $5   $5   $6   $11   N/A 
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X        129%  100%  34%  26%  N/A 
Operating margin -- % of North America net sales  1.2%  3.0%  3.5%  4.0%  1.3%  3.1%  N/A 
Operating income -- TTM     $1,425   $1,759   $2,113   $2,182   $2,361   66%
Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales     2.2%  2.6%  3.0%  2.9%  3.0%  N/A 
International Segment:                     
Net sales  $8,267   $11,841   $9,566   $9,844   $10,609   $13,965   18%
Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  24%  22%  26%  28%  28%  23%  N/A 
Net sales -- TTM  $34,154   $35,418   $37,239   $39,518   $41,860   $43,983   24%
Operating income (loss) before stock-based compensation and other:                     
Operating income (loss)  $(56)  $60   $20   $88   $(332)  $(254)  N/A 
Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X  N/A   65%  N/A   N/A   539%  N/A   N/A 
Operating margin -- % of International net sales  (0.7)%  0.5%  0.2%  0.9%  (3.1)%  (1.8)%  N/A 
Operating income (loss) -- TTM  $(86)  $(91)  $6   $113   $(163)  $(477)  426%
Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales  (0.3)%  (0.3)%  %  0.3%  (0.4)%  (1.1)%  N/A 
Operating income (loss):                     
Operating income (loss)  $(208)  $(108)  $(121)  $(135)  $(541)  $(487)  349%
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable)  $(64)  $(47)  $21   $40   $22   $5   N/A 
Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X        (27)%  (8)%  171%  354%  N/A 
Operating margin -- % of International net sales  (2.5)%  (0.9)%  (1.3)%  (1.4)%  (5.1)%  (3.5)%  N/A 
Operating income (loss) -- TTM     $(699)  $(626)  $(571)  $(905)  $(1,283)  83%
Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales     (2.0)%  (1.7)%  (1.4)%  (2.2)%  (2.9)%  N/A 
                      
 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions)
(unaudited)
 
   Q3 2015  Q4 2015  Q1 2016  Q2 2016  Q3 2016  Q4 2016  Y/Y %
Change
Segments (continued)                     
AWS Segment:                     
Net sales  $2,085   $2,405   $2,566   $2,886   $3,231   $3,536   47%
Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  78%  69%  64%  58%  55%  47%  N/A 
Net sales -- TTM  $6,894   $7,880   $8,880   $9,943   $11,088   $12,219   55%
Operating income before stock-based compensation and other:                     
Operating income  $521   $687   $716   $863   $1,021   $1,106   61%
Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X  353%  161%  161%  121%  100%  62%  N/A 
Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales  25.0%  28.5%  27.9%  29.9%  31.6%  31.3%  N/A 
Operating income -- TTM  $1,417   $1,863   $2,315   $2,787   $3,286   $3,706   99%
Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales  20.6%  23.6%  26.1%  28.0%  29.6%  30.3%  N/A 
Operating income:                     
Operating income  $428   $580   $604   $718   $861   $926   60%
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable)  $78   $60   $24   $   $(20)  $(9)  N/A 
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X        198%  136%  106%  61%  N/A 
Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales  20.5%  24.1%  23.5%  24.9%  26.6%  26.2%  N/A 
Operating income -- TTM     $1,507   $1,916   $2,329   $2,762   $3,108   106%
Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales     19.1%  21.6%  23.4%  24.9%  25.4%  N/A 
Consolidated Segments Before Stock-Based Compensation and Other:                     
Operating income  $993   $1,750   $1,660   $2,108   $1,383   $2,176   24%
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  N/A   67%  128%  92%  38%  23%  N/A 
Operating margin -- % of Consolidated net sales  3.9%  4.9%  5.7%  6.9%  4.2%  5.0%  N/A 
Operating income -- TTM  $3,811   $4,523   $5,478   $6,511   $6,902   $7,328   62%
Operating margin -- TTM % of Consolidated net sales  3.8%  4.2%  4.8%  5.4%  5.4%  5.4%  N/A 
                             
 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions, except employee data)
(unaudited)
 
   Q3 2015  Q4 2015  Q1 2016  Q2 2016  Q3 2016  Q4 2016  

Y/Y %
Change

Supplemental                     
Supplemental North America Segment Net Sales:                     
Media  $2,963   $3,931   $3,208   $2,928   $3,237   $4,208   7%
Media -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  9%  12%  8%  12%  9%  7%  N/A 
Media -- TTM  $12,096   $12,483   $12,722   $13,030   $13,304   $13,580   9%
Electronics and other general merchandise  $11,840   $17,325   $13,511   $14,459   $15,327   $21,590   25%
Electronics and other general merchandise -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  35%  28%  32%  32%  29%  25%  N/A 
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM  $46,606   $50,401   $53,663   $57,134   $60,622   $64,887   29%
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM % of North America net sales  78%  79%  80%  80%  81%  81%  N/A 
Other  $203   $245   $277   $287   $310   $442   81%
Supplemental International Segment Net Sales:                     
Media  $2,320   $3,292   $2,480   $2,283   $2,491   $3,377   3%
Media -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  6%  5%  9%  7%  7%  7%  N/A 
Media -- TTM  $10,140   $10,026   $10,186   $10,375   $10,546   $10,631   6%
Electronics and other general merchandise  $5,901   $8,491   $7,034   $7,504   $8,056   $10,514   24%
Electronics and other general merchandise -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X  32%  31%  33%  36%  36%  28%  N/A 
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM  $23,814   $25,196   $26,851   $28,930   $31,084   $33,107   31%
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM % of International net sales  70%  71%  72%  73%  74%  75%  N/A 
Other  $46   $58   $52   $57   $62   $74   26%
Stock-based Compensation Expense                     
Cost of sales              $7   $9   N/A 
Fulfillment  $122   $137   $116   $186   $165   $190   38%
Marketing  $48   $57   $56   $80   $85   $102   79%
Technology and content  $309   $364   $317   $419   $434   $493   36%
General and administrative  $65   $48   $55   $83   $85   $93   94%
Total stock-based compensation expense  $544   $606   $544   $768   $776   $887   46%
Other                     
WW shipping revenue  $1,494   $2,328   $1,820   $2,000   2,154   $3,003   29%
WW shipping revenue -- Y/Y growth  43%  37%  40%  43%  44%  29%  N/A 
WW shipping costs  $2,720   $4,170   $3,275   $3,362   3,897   $5,634   35%
WW shipping costs -- Y/Y growth  35%  37%  42%  44%  43%  35%  N/A 
WW net shipping costs  $1,226   $1,842   $1,455   $1,362   $1,743   $2,631   43%
WW net shipping costs -- Y/Y growth  26%  37%  44%  45%  42%  43%  N/A 
WW paid units -- Y/Y growth  26%  26%  27%  28%  28%  24%  N/A 
WW seller unit mix -- % of WW paid units  46%  47%  48%  49%  50%  49%  N/A 
Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel)  222,400   230,800   245,200   268,900   306,800   341,400   48%
Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) -- Y/Y growth  49%  50%  49%  47%  38%  48%  N/A 
                      

Amazon.com, Inc.
Certain Definitions

Customer Accounts

  • References to customers mean customer accounts, which are unique e-mail addresses, established either when a customer places an order or when a customer orders from other sellers on our websites. 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.

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