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Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 18% to $6.70 Billion; 2008 Free Cash Flow Grows 16% to $1.36 Billion

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008.

Operating cash flow was $1.70 billion in 2008, compared with $1.41 billion in 2007. Free cash flow increased 16% to $1.36 billion in 2008, compared with $1.18 billion in 2007.

Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards outstanding totaled 446 million on December 31, 2008, compared with 435 million a year ago.

Net sales increased 18% to $6.70 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $5.67 billion in fourth quarter 2007. Excluding the $320 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales would have grown 24% compared with fourth quarter 2007.

Operating income was $272 million in the fourth quarter, compared with $271 million in fourth quarter 2007. Excluding the $26 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, operating income would have grown 10% compared with fourth quarter 2007.

Net income increased 9% to $225 million in the fourth quarter, or $0.52 per diluted share, compared with net income of $207 million, or $0.48 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2007.

“We remain relentlessly focused on serving customers with low prices, great selection and free shipping offers, including Amazon Prime,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “We’re particularly grateful for the unusually strong demand for Kindle in the fourth quarter.”

Full Year 2008

Net sales increased 29% to $19.17 billion, or 28% excluding the $127 million favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, compared with $14.84 billion in 2007.

Operating income increased 28% to $842 million, or 27% excluding the $10 million favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, compared with $655 million in 2007. Included in 2008 operating income is a $53 million non-cash gain recognized on the sale of the Company’s European DVD rental assets.

Net income increased 36% to $645 million in 2008, or $1.49 per diluted share, compared with net income of $476 million, or $1.12 per diluted share, in 2007.

Highlights

  • North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $3.63 billion, up 18% from fourth quarter 2007.
  • International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French and Chinese sites, were $3.07 billion, up 19% from fourth quarter 2007. Excluding the unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, International sales grew 31%.
  • Worldwide Media sales grew 9% to $3.64 billion, compared with $3.33 billion in fourth quarter 2007.
  • Worldwide Electronics & Other General Merchandise sales grew 31% to $2.89 billion, compared with $2.21 billion in fourth quarter 2007, and increased to 43% of worldwide net sales compared with 39%.
  • Amazon.com introduced Frustration-Free Packaging, a multi-year initiative designed to make it easier for consumers to liberate items from their packaging by eliminating hard plastic clamshell cases, plastic bindings and plastic-coated wire ties. Frustration-Free Packaging is also more environmentally friendly than traditional packaging. The program launched with products from leading manufacturers including Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and Transcend.
  • Amazon.com shipped over 3 million units worldwide in fourth quarter 2008 on behalf of sellers who utilized Fulfillment by Amazon.
  • Amazon.co.uk launched the Amazon MP3 music service, offering more than 4 million DRM-free songs from all four major and hundreds of independent labels that can be played on any MP3 player.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon CloudFront, a self-service, pay-as-you-go web service for content delivery enabling global content distribution and seamless integration with Amazon S3.
  • AWS launched the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and enabled customers to run their Amazon EC2 instances in two Availability Zones within a new European Region with full-service features like Elastic IP addresses and Amazon Elastic Block Store.
  • AWS introduced tiered pricing for Amazon S3, enabling customers’ costs to decrease as their storage volume grows.
  • The Kindle Store contains the largest collection of e-books available anywhere in the world. Selection increased by 45,000 titles in the fourth quarter, bringing the total to 230,000 titles. One hundred three out of 112 current New York Times bestsellers are available and, along with most new releases, are priced at $9.99 or less. In addition, the Kindle Store recently added The Arizona Republic, The Baltimore Sun, The Orange County Register and USA Today and now offers newspapers from 8 of the top 10 metro areas in the United States.

Financial Guidance

The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com’s expectations as of January 29, 2009. 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 consumer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet and online commerce and the various factors detailed below.

First Quarter 2009 Guidance

  • Net sales are expected to be between $4.525 billion and $4.925 billion, or to grow between 9% and 19% compared with first quarter 2008.
  • Operating income is expected to be between $125 million and $210 million, or between 37% decline and 6% growth compared with first quarter 2008. This guidance includes approximately $75 million for stock-based compensation and amortization of intangible assets, and it assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions or investments are concluded and that there are no further revisions to stock-based compensation estimates.

A conference call will be webcast live today at 2 p.m. PT/5 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 sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains and develops commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services and technologies, system interruptions, indebtedness, government regulation and taxation, payments 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, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Computers & Office; Electronics; Home & Garden; Grocery, Health & Beauty; Toys, Kids & Baby; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.

Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.

Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and www.amazon.cn.

As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.

AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in millions)
(unaudited)
       
Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
December 31, December 31,
  2008     2007     2008     2007  
 
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD $ 1,650

 

$ 1,366 $ 2,539 $ 1,022
 
OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income 225 207 645 476

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

Depreciation of fixed assets, including internal-use software and website development, and other amortization

77 63 287 246
Stock-based compensation 79 54 275 185
Other operating expense (income), net 8 3 (24 ) 9
Losses (gains) on sales of marketable securities, net - - (2 ) 1
Other expense (income), net (17 ) (1 ) (34 ) 12
Deferred income taxes 41 (97 ) (5 ) (99 )
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation 1 (163 ) (159 ) (257 )
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Inventories (102 ) (231 ) (232 ) (303 )
Accounts receivable, net and other (324 ) (237 ) (218 ) (255 )
Accounts payable 1,336 1,144 812 928
Accrued expenses and other 209 399 247 429
Additions to unearned revenue 162 79 449 244
Amortization of previously unearned revenue   (124 )   (71 )   (344 )   (211 )

Net cash provided by operating activities

1,571 1,149 1,697 1,405
 
INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

Purchases of fixed assets, including internal-use software and website development

(101 ) (73 ) (333 ) (224 )
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other (87 ) (29 ) (494 ) (75 )
Sales and maturities of marketable securities and other investments 272 115 1,305 1,271
Purchases of marketable securities and other investments   (449 )   (153 )   (1,677 )   (930 )
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities (365 ) (140 ) (1,199 ) 42
 
FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from exercises of stock options 1 12 11 91
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation (1 )

163

159 257
Common stock repurchased (100 ) - (100 ) (248 )
Proceeds from long-term debt and other 51 3 87 24
Repayments of long-term debt and capital lease obligations   (15 )  

(10

)   (355 )   (74 )
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities (64 ) 168 (198 ) 50
 
Foreign-currency effect on cash and cash equivalents   (23 )   (4 )   (70 )   20  
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents   1,119     1,173     230     1,517  
       
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD $ 2,769   $ 2,539   $ 2,769   $ 2,539  
 
SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
Cash paid for interest $ 3 $ 1 $ 64 $ 67
Cash paid for income taxes 25 10 53 24
Fixed assets acquired under capital leases and other financing arrangements 44 32 148 74
Fixed assets acquired under build-to-suit leases 37 15 72 15
Conversion of debt - - 605 1
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(in millions, except per share data)
(unaudited)
       
Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
December 31, December 31,
  2008     2007     2008     2007  
 
Net sales $ 6,704 $ 5,673 $ 19,166 $ 14,835
Cost of sales   5,356     4,503     14,896     11,482  
Gross profit 1,348 1,170 4,270 3,353
 
Operating expenses (1):
Fulfillment 549 478 1,658 1,292
Marketing 169 133 482

 

344
Technology and content 278 221 1,033 818
General and administrative 72 64 279 235
Other operating expense (income), net (2)   8     3     (24 )   9  
Total operating expenses   1,076     899     3,428     2,698  
 
Income from operations 272 271 842

 

655
 
Interest income 16 28 83 90
Interest expense (12 ) (21 ) (71 ) (77 )
Other income (expense), net   26     3     47     (8 )
Total non-operating income   30     10     59     5  
 
Income before income taxes 302 281

 

901

 

660
 
Provision for income taxes (79 ) (74 ) (247 ) (184 )
Equity-method investment activity, net of tax   2     -     (9 )   -  
Net income $ 225   $ 207   $ 645   $ 476  
 
Basic earnings per share $ 0.52   $ 0.50  

 

$ 1.52  

 

$ 1.15  
 
Diluted earnings per share $ 0.52   $ 0.48  

 

$ 1.49  

 

$ 1.12  
 
 
Weighted average shares used in computation of earnings per share:

 

 

Basic   428     416     423     413  
Diluted   436     427     432     424  
__________________________
(1) Includes stock-based compensation as follows:
Fulfillment $ 19 $ 11 $ 61 $ 39
Marketing 4 2 13 8
Technology and content 42 31 151 103
General and administrative 14 10 50 35
 
(2) Q2 2008 includes a $53 million non-cash gain associated with the sale of our European DVD rental assets.
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Segment Information
(in millions)
(unaudited)
       
Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
December 31, December 31,
  2008     2007     2008     2007  
North America
Net sales $ 3,631 $ 3,084 $ 10,228 $ 8,095
Cost of sales   2,850     2,386     7,733     6,064  
Gross profit 781 698 2,495 2,031
Direct segment operating expenses (1)   651     545     2,050     1,631  
Segment operating income $ 130   $ 153   $ 445   $ 400  
 
International
Net sales $ 3,073 $ 2,589 $ 8,938 $ 6,740
Cost of sales   2,506     2,117     7,163     5,418  
Gross profit 567 472 1,775 1,322
Direct segment operating expenses (1)   338     297     1,127     873  
Segment operating income $ 229   $ 175   $ 648   $ 449  
 
Consolidated
Net sales $ 6,704 $ 5,673 $ 19,166 $ 14,835
Cost of sales   5,356     4,503     14,896     11,482  
Gross profit 1,348 1,170 4,270 3,353
Direct segment operating expenses   989     842     3,177     2,504  
Segment operating income 359 328 1,093 849
Stock-based compensation (79 ) (54 ) (275 ) (185 )
Other operating income (expense), net (2)   (8 )   (3 )   24     (9 )
Income from operations 272 271 842 655
Total non-operating income, net 30 10 59 5
Provision for income taxes (79 ) (74 ) (247 ) (184 )
Equity-method investment activity, net of tax   2     -     (9 )   -  
Net income $ 225   $ 207   $ 645   $ 476  
 
Segment Highlights:
Y/Y net sales growth:
North America 18 % 40 % 26 % 38 %
International 19 46 33 39
Consolidated 18 42 29 39
Y/Y gross profit growth:
North America 12 % 31 % 23 % 33 %
International 20 48 34 42
Consolidated 15 38 27 37
Y/Y segment operating income growth:
North America (15 %) 25 % 11 % 74 %
International 31 65 44 66
Consolidated 9 44 29 70
Net sales mix:
North America 54 % 54 % 53 % 55 %
International 46 46 47 45
__________________________

(1) A significant majority of our costs for "Technology and content" are incurred in the United States and most of these costs are allocated to our North America segment.

 
(2) Q2 2008 includes a $53 million non-cash gain associated with the sale of our European DVD rental assets.
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Net Sales Information
(in millions)
(unaudited)
       
Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
December 31, December 31,
  2008     2007     2008     2007  
North America
Media $ 1,751 $ 1,637 $ 5,350 $ 4,630
Electronics and other general merchandise 1,733 1,336 4,430 3,139
Other   147     111     448     326  
Total North America 3,631 3,084 10,228 8,095
 
International
Media 1,889 1,692 5,734 4,612
Electronics and other general merchandise 1,156 877 3,110 2,071
Other   28     20     94     57  
Total International 3,073 2,589 8,938 6,740
 
Consolidated
Media 3,640 3,329 11,084 9,242
Electronics and other general merchandise 2,889 2,213 7,540 5,210
Other   175     131     542     383  
Total Consolidated $ 6,704   $ 5,673   $ 19,166   $ 14,835  
 
Y/Y Net Sales Growth:
North America:
Media 7 % 31 % 16 % 29 %
Electronics and other general merchandise 30 53 41 55
Other 33 37 38 24
Total North America 18 40 26 38
 
International:
Media 12 % 36 % 24 % 32 %
Electronics and other general merchandise 32 68 50 55
Other 40 143 65 186

Total International

19 46 33 39
 
Consolidated:
Media 9 % 33 % 20 % 31 %
Electronics and other general merchandise 31 58 45 55
Other 34 47 42 35
Total Consolidated 18 42 29 39
 
Y/Y Net Sales Growth Excluding Effect of Exchange Rates:
International:
Media 22 % 26 % 22 % 25 %
Electronics and other general merchandise 46 55 49 45
Other 58 124 67 165
Total International 31 35 31 31
 
Consolidated:
Media 15 % 28 % 19 % 27 %
Electronics and other general merchandise 36 54 44 51
Other 38 45 42 34
Total Consolidated 24 37 28 35
 
Consolidated Net Sales Mix:
Media 54 % 59 % 58 % 62 %
Electronics and other general merchandise 43 39 39 35
Other 3 2 3 3
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in millions, except per share data)
   
December 31, December 31,
  2008     2007  
ASSETS (unaudited)
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 2,769 $ 2,539
Marketable securities 958 573
Inventories 1,399 1,200
Accounts receivable, net and other 827 705
Deferred tax assets   204     147  
Total current assets 6,157 5,164
Fixed assets, net 854 543
Deferred tax assets 145 260
Goodwill 438 222
Other assets   720     296  
Total assets $ 8,314   $ 6,485  
 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable $ 3,594 $ 2,795
Accrued expenses and other 1,093 902
Current portion of long-term debt   59     17  

Total current liabilities

4,746 3,714
Long-term debt 409 1,282
Other long-term liabilities 487 292
 
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 -- 445 and 431
Outstanding shares -- 428 and 416 4 4
Treasury stock, at cost (600 ) (500 )
Additional paid-in capital 4,121 3,063
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (123 ) 5
Accumulated deficit   (730 )   (1,375 )
Total stockholders' equity   2,672     1,197  
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 8,314   $ 6,485  
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions, except per share data)
(unaudited)
 
            Y/Y %
Q4 2007   Q1 2008   Q2 2008   Q3 2008   Q4 2008   Change
Cash Flows and Shares
 
Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM) $ 1,405 $ 1,039 $ 1,088 $ 1,275 $ 1,697 21 %
 
Purchases of fixed assets (incl. internal-use software & website development) -- TTM $ 224 $ 251 $ 272 $ 305 $ 333 48 %
 
Free cash flow (operating cash flow less purchases of fixed assets) -- TTM $ 1,181 $ 788 $ 816 $ 970 $ 1,364 16 %
Free cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth 143 % 51 % 16 % 21 % 16 % N/A
 
Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding 435 435 446 448 446 3 %
Common shares outstanding 416 417 426 429 428 3 %
Stock-based awards outstanding 18 18 20 19 18 (1 %)
Stock-based awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding 4.4 % 4.3 % 4.6 % 4.5 % 4.2 % N/A
 
Results of Operations
 
Worldwide (WW) net sales $ 5,673 $ 4,135 $ 4,063 $ 4,264 $ 6,704 18 %
WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 37 % 31 % 35 % 28 % 24 % N/A
WW net sales -- TTM $ 14,835 $ 15,955 $ 17,133 $ 18,135 $ 19,166 29 %
WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 35 % 35 % 35 % 33 % 28 % N/A
 
Gross profit $ 1,170 $ 956 $ 967 $ 999 $ 1,348 15 %
Gross profit -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 33 % 28 % 32 % 29 % 20 % N/A
Gross margin -- % of WW net sales 20.6 % 23.1 % 23.8 % 23.4 % 20.1 % N/A
Gross profit -- TTM $ 3,353 $ 3,589 $ 3,855 $ 4,092 $ 4,270 27 %
Gross profit -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 33 % 33 % 32 % 31 % 26 % N/A
Gross margin -- TTM % of WW net sales 22.6 % 22.5 % 22.5 % 22.6 % 22.3 % N/A
 
Operating income (1) $ 271 $ 198 $ 217 $ 154 $ 272 0 %
Operating margin -- % of WW net sales 4.8 % 4.8 % 5.3 % 3.6 % 4.1 % N/A
Operating income -- TTM (1) $ 655 $ 708 $ 808 $ 840 $ 842 28 %
Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 61 % 57 % 52 % 36 % 27 % N/A
Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales 4.4 % 4.4 % 4.7 % 4.6 % 4.4 % N/A
 
Net income (1) $ 207 $ 143 $ 158 $ 118 $ 225 9 %
Net income per diluted share $ 0.48 $ 0.34 $ 0.37 $ 0.27 $ 0.52 6 %
Net income -- TTM (1) $ 476 $ 508 $ 588 $ 627 $ 645 36 %
Net income per diluted share -- TTM $ 1.12 $ 1.20 $ 1.38 $ 1.46 $ 1.49 33 %
 
Segments
 
North America Segment:
Net sales $ 3,084 $ 2,126 $ 2,168 $ 2,302 $ 3,631 18 %
Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 39 % 31 % 35 % 29 % 18 % N/A
Net sales -- TTM $ 8,095 $ 8,598 $ 9,166 $ 9,680 $ 10,228 26 %
Gross profit $ 698 $ 569 $ 559 $ 586 $ 781 12 %
Gross margin -- % of North America net sales 22.6 % 26.7 % 25.8 % 25.5 % 21.5 % N/A
Gross profit -- TTM $ 2,031 $ 2,160 $ 2,286 $ 2,412 $ 2,495 23 %
Gross margin -- TTM % of North America net sales 25.1 % 25.1 % 24.9 % 24.9 % 24.4 % N/A
Operating income $ 153 $ 130 $ 96 $ 88 $ 130 (15 %)
Operating margin -- % of North America net sales 5.0 % 6.1 % 4.4 % 3.8 % 3.6 % N/A
Operating income -- TTM $ 400 $ 445 $ 458 $ 468 $ 445 11 %
Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 73 % 74 % 46 % 26 % 11 % N/A
Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales 4.9 % 5.2 % 5.0 % 4.8 % 4.4 % N/A
 
International Segment:
Net sales $ 2,589 $ 2,009 $ 1,895 $ 1,962 $ 3,073 19 %
Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 35 % 31 % 34 % 28 % 31 % N/A
Net sales -- TTM $ 6,740 $ 7,357 $ 7,967 $ 8,455 $ 8,938 33 %
Net sales -- TTM % of WW net sales 45 % 46 % 47 % 47 % 47 % N/A
Gross profit $ 472 $ 387 $ 408 $ 413 $ 567 20 %
Gross margin -- % of International net sales 18.2 % 19.3 % 21.5 % 21.1 % 18.5 % N/A
Gross profit -- TTM $ 1,322 $ 1,430 $ 1,569 $ 1,680 $ 1,775 34 %
Gross margin -- TTM % of International net sales 19.6 % 19.4 % 19.7 % 19.9 % 19.9 % N/A
Operating income $ 175 $ 128 $ 149 $ 143 $ 229 31 %
Operating margin -- % of International net sales 6.8 % 6.4 % 7.9 % 7.3 % 7.4 % N/A
Operating income -- TTM $ 449 $ 483 $ 550 $ 594 $ 648 44 %
Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 53 % 44 % 47 % 41 % 42 % N/A

Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales

6.7

%

6.6

%

6.9

%

7.0

%

7.3

%

N/A

 

 
AMAZON.COM, INC.
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
(in millions, except inventory turnover, accounts payable days and employee data)
(unaudited)
                         
Y/Y %
Q4 2007   Q1 2008   Q2 2008   Q3 2008   Q4 2008   Change
Segments (continued)
 
Consolidated Segments:
Operating expenses $ 842 $ 698 $ 722 $ 768 $ 989 17 %
Operating expenses -- TTM $ 2,504 $ 2,661 $ 2,847 $ 3,030 $ 3,177 27 %
Operating income $ 328 $ 258 $ 245 $ 231 $ 359 9 %
Operating margin -- % of consolidated sales 5.8 % 6.2 % 6.0 % 5.4 % 5.4 % N/A
Operating income -- TTM $ 849 $ 928 $ 1,008 $ 1,062 $ 1,093 29 %
Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 64 % 59 % 49 % 35 % 28 % N/A
Operating margin -- TTM % of consolidated net sales 5.7 % 5.8 % 5.9 % 5.9 % 5.7 % N/A
 
Supplemental North America Segment Net Sales:
Media $ 1,637 $ 1,205 $ 1,148 $ 1,245 $ 1,751 7 %
Media -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 30 % 21 % 24 % 15 % 8 % N/A
Media -- TTM $ 4,630 $ 4,845 $ 5,071 $ 5,235 $ 5,350 16 %
Electronics and other general merchandise $ 1,336 $ 826 $ 920 $ 950 $ 1,733 30 %
Electronics and other general merchandise -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 53 % 46 % 52 % 51 % 30 % N/A
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM $ 3,139 $ 3,400 $ 3,714 $ 4,033 $ 4,430 41 %
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM % of North America net sales 39 % 40 % 41 % 42 % 43 % N/A
Other $ 111 $ 95 $ 100 $ 107 $ 147 33