The Electronic Commerce Giant Amazon announced on Thursday a net benefits of 17,127 million dollars in the first quarter of 2025, 64% more year -on -year, with digital sales as an income engine but a growing weight of its cloud business.
The total turnover of the company stood at 155,667 million, 8% more, a good part from digital sales (57,407 million dollars) and third -party sales (36,512 million dollars), while their cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and advertising services.
Faced with an year -on -year growth of 5% in digital sales and 6% in third -party sales, the AWS business increased its income by 17%, up to 29,267 million dollars, and advertising services 18%, up to 13,921 million dollars, details a statement published at the close of Wall Street.
The results exceeded the expectations of the analysts, but the actions fell more than 3% in reaction to loose forecasts for the next quarter, in which the company anticipates “an unfavorable impact” due to “exchange rates”, although its income will continue to grow between 7 and 11%.
Amazon said the forecasts reflect their expectations as of today but are subject to a “substantial uncertainty” by factors such as “fluctuations in exchange rates”, “tariff and trade policies” or changes in the consumer due to “recession fears.”
Amazon and the White House
This week, Amazon had a controversy with the White House in which he ended up denialing an alleged plan to reflect on the price of the products the effect of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump to imports in the US.
This effect was reflected, however, in what the specialized media have indicated as a low sales growth in North America, its star region, which was 8%.
In spite of everything, the maximum executive of Amazon, Andy Jassy, said he was “pleased with the beginning of 2025” and focused on the “rhythm of innovation and progress to continue improving customer experiences”, listing a long list of novelties that covers the development of artificial intelligence (AI).
Like other great technological ones, the company has been developing its AI technologies and applying them to your own business to optimize it, and its operational expenses in that section of “Technologies and Infrastructure” have continued to grow, up to almost 23,000 million dollars this last quarter.
With EFE information.
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