As a company that began during the internet bubble and saw most of its peers disappear in an industry based on future profits and unsound business models; Amazon is much more than a survivor, it’s an industry leader that has refuted analysts’ expectations. A bit of luck and destiny coupled with a great business model led to survival, leadership and eventually, profits!
If you are in my Marketing class, research Amazon’s promotion in terms of sales promotion and advertising. Make sure to point out the elements and how effective you think they are and why.
If you are in my Intro to Business class, find or compute Amazon’s EPS for the last 3 years. Compare these ratios to at least one of Amazon’s competitor’s EPS and determine whether Amazon has performed better or worst than its competitor(s).
Have fun!
Amazon uses online cupons as a type of sales promotion and this is also a way Amazon can advertise some of their items. While looking through the promo cupons your also searching through many different items that you can get from the Amazon site. Amazon also lets people that are selling their product to put an advertisment on the site so shoppers can see the item and price before even searching through the site. Other businesses can also put their own advertisments on Amazons website aswell.
Amazon “the largest on line retailer” per Bloomberg is very effective with their sales promotion and advertising. They use may short term promotions that tie their name with other companies. One example is “earn triple points with a Visa Card on Amazon .com orders”, thus identiing Amazon.com as a place to shop. Another example is “sign up for e-mails and you have a chance to win a $1000 Amazon gift card. They use many sales promotion on the internet to drive sales, such as coupons for items with a new lower price.
Amazons use of links, banner sand site stripes on web sites is a very effective advertising tool that helps drive their sales and propmotions.
Just how is Amazon so successful? Amazon is successful because of the way it does business. Amazon is a company that gives a customer an insensitive to want to buy on their site. One insensitive that Amazon gives to the customer is with the Amazon visa. The website states “earn triple points on amazon.com orders”. Another insensitive that Amazon gives to customers is coupons. Amazon not only caters to the customer, but they cater to businesses. Amazon allows for a business to advertise on their site, which is allowing the customer who visits the site the ability to see the advertisement.
Amazon is very successful at doing business. They are one of the leading on-line retailers. Sales promotion and Advertising are two of the reasons why Amazon has become so successful. Amazon has joined with various companies to generate sales promotions. An example of one of these promotions is with visa, the website promotes “earn triple points on amazon.com orders”. This gives people a reason or an incentive to shop at amazon over other on-line retailers. Amazon also does advertising with coupons and sends them out to its customers. Amazon also has advertisements on various websites, such as the ones on the “blogonomics” page. These advertisements catch the eye of the consumer, and in return have help amazon become more and more successful.
Amazon does a lot of promotional things that help out them and their customers. They do online advertising as you see on this site. Customers get a portion of the profit received if a customer uses the link on their website to buy something on Amazon. They can either get a portion of the profits or get it donated to charity. They also have co-branded credit card programs(yahoo finance). These work similar in the way that airlines an credit card companies work together.
As seen on this blogonomics website Amazon uses online advertising space. At the beginning of the semester I saw an advertisement on this website saying if you use this link a portion of your purchase will be donated to charity. Yesterday in marketing we learned that some people will make that purchase over others just because of the charity factor. Amazon also uses online coupons to drive people to buy more when they may not have been necessarily looking.
Amazon is a well known website to sell, buy, trade product or advertise. Sale promotion: all kind of products that up on amazon web for all kind of people in globally to used and buy. They have almost everything you never have for cheaper than retail price.They find product to sell it to you for a really good deal for. the one thing they don’t tell you is where do they get them from.
Advertisement: another way for amazon to make extra money and help out some other business. you can also be part of amazon team by selling stuff that you don’t need or wanted to put on amazon with a deal. there are not that many of advertisement on the web. such as credit card, insurance, and some other business advertisement. It’s a great opportunity to help small business and ensure the customers needed. by being a member of amazon you can get a deal when you purchase something or doing business through the advertising.ed of. And people are seem to enjoy brows around to see what is on sale. The product they have either similar to the one u looking for or the same one by reducing the price, also free shipping with the purchase to attract customers to buy. More of a whole sale web that you can get things .
Online shoppers are slowly becoming more abundant in today’s society. Roughly 80% of people are said to have shopped online once or twice. At the forefront of this marketplace is Amazon; Amazon is a huge online retailer. Amazon sells just about anything a consumer could want at a good price. Amazon, which has quit television advertising, mostly advertises over the internet. While surfing from site to site, one will often see products advertised by amazon. Also, companies advertise their products and say: buy them at Amazon.com. This is a very effective strategy. If I am shopping for cameras and see an advertisement online for a camera at Amazon I am very likely to click and search through. With such a huge base of internet shoppers, Amazon is likely to track people from all sorts of websites with this approach.
Amazon’s EPS for the last three years were $2.04 in 2009, $1.51 in 2008, and $1.14 in 2007. Amazon is doing really good compared to it’s ultimate rivalry, EBay by holding a larger EPS the past three years. EBay’s EPS for the last three years were $1.84 in 2009, $1.39 in 2008, and $.26 in 2007. You don’t really have to be a genius in finance to see that Amazon is performing better than EBay comparing the EPS’s even though EBay has generated more net income than Amazon the past three years( Yahoo Finance Income Statements). Amazon wasn’t always all that great before, seeing that in the 4th quarter of 2001 they had an EPS of $.01 after they just started seeing a turn on profit. The company grew dramatically since then in size and profitability, gaining investor’s confidence.
Amazon is and most likely always will be a successful online website. They offer all types and a very wide range of products that appeal to many of different kinds of people and that is how they stay so successful. They offer cheaper prices of products that you can get in stores, for instance, discounted laundry detergent, sneakers, tv and watches which keep customers interested and make them want to buy through them, rather then going through a store. While also they offer many of promo coupons around the website. All of these tactics keep customers interested and wanting to come back
Amazon started in 1994 and went online in 1995. Amazon started out by selling books and then they grew into many different product lines. Amazon has a big selection, brand names, and a great reputation for reliability. You can find almost anything you need on Amazon. Amazon runs different sales on certain items and offers free shipping with some of their products. On Amazon’s website you will see a number of small ads advertising Amazon credit cards and many other special deals. At the top of their website Amazon shows an icon with special deals of the day. Their ads are catchy because they advertise free shipping or a certain percentage off particular products. These ads grab your attention with their money saving offers. Amazon also offers deals when you purchase two or more products you can save money. Amazon also advertises in bright colors and use catchy phrases for example, “lightening deals, today’s deals, deals and bargains, warehouse deals.” Their advertising catches your eye and you start looking at items because of the great deals Amazon is offering.
Amazon is very smart and like you said were able to survive the economic crisis. With smart resourses and the way they market there selves, amazon is able to stay on top of online sales. THey use banners and stripes on various sites to promote them selves as well. Online shoppers can see savings so this is one reason many people including my self are using sites like amazon to get products.
According to Yahoo Finance, from ‘07-’09 Amazon’s EPS went from 1.14, 1.51, 2.04. Amazon’s biggest competitor is Ebay, another very successful business, but Amazon is doing a little better. From ‘07-’09 Ebay’s EPS went from .26, 1.39, 1.84. Amazon is a young company that has recently been booming, in ‘07 their net income was $476,000 and in ‘09 it was $902,000. This company has been growing a significant amount over the years and shows signs of growing more in years to come.
Amazon dot com provides all the goods and services as its competitors but without the hassle of going out and searching for it in a physical store. For the past decade they have thrived on the internet boom and the convenience it provides customers. Originally designed as an online bookstore it has slowly grown to a multinational corporation with almost anything imaginable for purchase.
The same way they do business , most of Amazon’s marketing involves the internet. Many small business’ will host Amazon banners ( including this one ) where the site operator will receive a small commission on the number of clicks that banner provides. This not only helps Amazon because it draws traffic to the site but it’s also financially beneficial for the site operator. They also run other enticing promotions for the conumer such as “Free Super Saver Shipping ” and free gift wrapping during holiday season. They are also expanding to other markets not easily obtainable by ebusiness’ such as grocery items. The company has teamed up with many food distributors to provide grocery items at competitive , if not lower prices than your local supermarket. For many of these items you can also recieve an additional 15% off if you sign up to have these items delivered on a regular basis. They have also teamed up with other large retailers such as Target , Sears , Timex , and Lacoste to give its customers the best possible selection of goods at the lowest prices.
According to CNN Money Amazon’s EPS was $2.04 in 2009 , $1.49 in 2008 , and $1.12 in 2007. These numbers are well compared to rival ebusines Overstock dot com whose EPS for 2009 was just $.33 and fell into the negatives in 2008.
Amazon is the largest online retailer. Amazon.com has constantly growing database of over 12 million customers in more than 160 countries. Amazon.com is the place to find and discover anything customers want to buy online. They have earth’s biggest selection of products, including millions of books, free electronic greeting cards, online auctions, videos, CDs, DVDs, toys, games, electronics, kitchenware, computers, and more.
Amazon.com offers services to consumers, sellers and developers though its retails websites. The company generates revenue through co-branded credit card agreements and other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising.
Advertising has probably been its key to growth, exposure, and name branding. This form of advertising is called affiliate programs. These programs are: “An agreement between a retailer and a sub – retailer whereby the retailer pays the sub a percentage of any sales generated by the traffic driven to the retailer’s site. Amazon has an affiliate program that smaller websites can sign up for. This allows these websites to place an ad or a link on Amazon’s website. The sales are tracked and anything purchased results in a commission for the smaller websites. Amazon.com has had so much success with the affiliate programs that it patented the technology. Part of the beauty of this technology is Amazon generates sales, name branding, and traffic through its website.
In my opinion Amazon.com is one of the greatest business innovators to date, an arguable P.T. Barnum of the current age. While marketing traditionalists may consider Amazon’s meteoric rise to become the acme of internet sales a “fluke” I personally find it quite ingenious as it incorporates elements of not only traditional customer focus (customer friendly) but also sociological and psychological elements that could revival that of the great Gorgeous George. Amazon.com came about during the dot com boom when everyone wanted a piece of what could be described as the “internet futures market”, businesses were purchasing domains as if they were Sunday football fans praying lip service Jesus in hopes of beating the spread, a new technology with low overhead, unlimited potential, and rampant misconception that anyone could get rich, a fool’s gold rush and a plethora of suckers willing to trade their only cow to hold a pan in the stream for 15 minutes (most just ending up all wet with no gold).
Even some of the most well thought out companies went under because of one main misconception “you have to spend money to make money”, many of these companies believed it didn’t matter how much they spent because they could always outgrow what they were spending, companies that were around for less than a year were dropping huge sums on superbowl ads, giveaways, and TV/radio/print ads always assuming that these ads would bring colossal returns (truly a great time to be an advertising agent, I was a teen during the boom) and that’s where Amazon split from the pack, being an online book seller they may have realized that books are for the most part a word of mouth business (if someone isn’t interested in reading a 400 page book a print ad or tv spot is unlikely to change their mind, however a reliable friend’s recommendation might cause them to buy it and read it.) but maybe they didn’t however they did realize possibly the most important rule of business “your customers are important, keep them happy”, instead of spending millions on ads they focused on their customers, first by eliminating the biggest con of internet shopping at the time, shipping costs, by offering free shipping and having customers create accounts with them they were shoring up repeat business, they also let customers write product reviews which not only provided great customer feedback it is also was an act of catharsis for angry customers (giving the company the chance to make up for an issue to keep the customer) and happy customers the chance to praise and use word of mouth which is extremely important in not only reassuring the purchase but also lessens the perceived risk of other customers interested in the product.
Amazon was in the business of customer convenience from one click shopping, wish lists, interactive shopping carts, allowing other sellers to sell through them, and now allowing customers to suggest Amazon sell products from any site on the web (saves product research costs while generating feedback) in fact Amazon’s strategy of letting customers give their own feedback while being unobtrusive is divinely simple and simply genius (and practically free)(longtime Amazon customer). Another huge factor in Amazon’s success has been its superb track record of investments and acquisitions, even from its corporate infancy Amazon was always on the look out to expand and buy into up and coming businesses (zappos.com, imdb, bookpages, telebook, jungle, drugstore.com, the list goes on and on)(seobythesea.com) often buying out competition before they could become a threat or acquiring companies that were right on the bubble of success but needed a big of capital to up their game. While Amazon no longer relies solely on word of mouth and internet advertising is much more expensive now than when they started (I did forget to mention earlier that Amazon used internet advertising but not traditional media as internet ads hit their target market…. People who used the internet, a new market at the time) it has been propelled into the class of household names a status formerly garnered by Sears Roebuck, Macy’s, and Woolworth’s and will likely continue to hold a strong position fir many decades to come.
Amazon sales promotion stratagies is what keeps them on top for an online retailer. They use free shipping perks after some much purchased. Also, they uses donations as a insentive to buy from them. Pepole who want to donate to a cause such as Haiti for example, and still buy a product can do so buying from amazon. Amazon will give a certain percent of the purchase to the cause. Amazon is also very user friendly so i think its simplisty, and selection of products keeps pepole using it. Amazon also advertises coupons to attract new and already existing customers to buy from there website.
Amazon’s EPS was 1.14 in 2007, 1.15 in 2008, and 2.04 in 2009 (yahoo finanace). This is pretty good compared to Amazon’s biggest competitor, Ebay. Ebay’s EPS was .26 in 2007, 1.39 in 2008, and 1.84 in 2009(yahoo finance). Also, Amazon’s revenue is 25 billion compared to Ebay’s 9 billion. Clearly Amazon has been performing better than Ebay for the past three years.
Amazon’s esp for the last three years is as follows for 2009 is was $2.18. For 2008 it was $1.52. For 2007 it was at $1.15. As for one of Amazon’s competitors like yahoo their esp for 2009 was $.433. For 2008 it was $.310. For 2007 it was $.479. Based on what have seen Amazon is doing better than it’s competitor.
Amazon.com has become a profitable, well known and inovative company. That has made many changes with society and the economy. They offer many of the same products as the stores and even some special items . This keeps them competitive and productive with consumer demand. They offer many promotions such as free shipping and price matching. They seem to have a good relationship with the consumers and suppliers with them being the middleman.
There current EPS is 2.04.
Amazon through the years have grown and improved their vision. Although they still have a long way to go. Amazon uses many advertising and sales techniques. They have trials and sales going on everyday. Their sales promotions are becoming more attractive to the public. They advertisements towards students is very subtle such as; buy one book get one half off. After several purchases, they provide you with coupons or accumulate certain amount of points to redeem them for any product of your convenience. They have meet the demands of their suppliers and demanders.
For the last three years Amazon’s EPS is: 2009 it’s EPS is 2.04, 2008 is 1.51, and 2007 is 1.14. When I compare these ratio to Ebay, their EPS is lower then Amazon’s. Ebay EPS is for 2009, 1.84, 2008 is 1.39, and 2007 is 0.26. Amazon has performed better than Ebay.
Amazon is one of the most well known shopping sites. It has created a well known name for itself by providing good services and products. Amazon uses many different advertising strategies to make their customers buy and sell through them. They use coupons and offer discounts to buyers whom purchase products from them.
The reason in which i believe that amazon provides discounts and promotional coupons its because it helps attract previous cutomers to buy more from them then other online shopping sites. Also by providing discounts one is more to tell their friends where to shop for books and such things neededs for a less cost for the same product.
According to Yahoo finace, Amazon EPS have been growing over the past three years. Amazon EPS were $2.04 in 2009, $1.49 in 2008 and $1.12 in 2007.Compared to Ebay, Amazon is been doing better. Ebay EPS were $1.83 in 2009, $1.35 in 2008 and $0.25 in 2007. From both companies EPS we can say that Amazon is a better performer than their competitor Ebay.
Amazon uses many different sale promotions including right on there home page, they are promoting buy and kindle and get free kindle book apps. They advertise the kindle on television/ and multiple banners on websites.
According to Yahoo finance, Amazon’s EPS for the past 3 years were $2.04 for 2009, $1.49 for 2008 and $1.12 for 2007. One of Amazon’s competitors is EBAY. EBAY reported EPS for the past 3 years of $1.83 for 2009, $1.36 for 2008 and $.25 for 2007. Based on these figures, Amazon has performed better for their investors than EBAY over the past 3 years.
Amazon doesn’t promote like many online retainers do. However, they are the “leader” of the online shopping world. How do they do this? They advertise mostly online. When we go to websites, we see Amazon promotions on the side of the web page. Aside from their physical promotions, they offer discounts to new customers and off different types of promotions to returning customers.
Amazon promotes itself online on various websites. By doing this they make themselves available to many customers who r willing to buy the products they offer. They advertise products on sale by putting small banners on the side of websites. Customers receive discounts and save money on certain items. This makes Amazon the largest online retailers.
According to the quarterly reports, the curent EPS is2.04.I looked up quarters 1 through 4 for last year and it was up the first, down the second and up the third and fourth.Amazons competitors BKS and EBAY had an EPS of 1.284 and 1.848 which is almost half of what Amazons EPS is keeping Amazon still in the lead.
The eps for Amazon has almost doubled over the last few years, the eps for 2007 was $1.14 for 2008 it was $1.51 and for 2009 it was $2.04. EBay is in a comparable business as Amazon but Amazon has consistently had a higher eps than EBay for the past three years. The eps for EBay in 2007 2008 and 2009 was $.26, $1.39 and $1.84, respectively. Earnings per share is the net income divided by the number of shares purchased, so this means that for every share issued, Amazon has a higher return. Based on the comparison between these two companies Amazon has performed better than EBay and has made more money for investors.
Since 2007, Amazons annual eps increased from 1.12 to1.49 all the way to 2.04 in 2009. I comared amazons eps to that of Barnes and Nobles and the results were very interesting. Barnes and Nobles eps showed 2.17 in 2007 and 2.03 in 2008 which were much higher than Amazons eps. However, the eps for B and N dropped down to 1.32 in 2009 where as amazons eps for 2009 was 2.04. The difference is that Amazon has had a steady increase over the past three years but one of its competitors eps, B and N actually decreased. According to my reaserch Amazon has indeed performed better because of its steady increase in eps.
Amazon is one of the largest and most popular selling and buying websites in the market in todays society. According to The Power of Influence, Jeff Bezos the owner and founder of amazon says that about three years ago they tried running a tv advertising campain in both Portland, Oregon and Minneapolis to see how much it would drive their sales. After time, the results showed that the campain worked but not as well as taking the money it cost to run the ads and taking that money and putting it back into the consumers pockets. They chose to lower prodcut prices and offer free shipping. These sales techniques are similar to promotions trying to get custormers to buy products from Amazon becasue they are cheeper and offer incentives like free shipping. Amazon also uses techniques such as online coupons and offering a amazon credit card through Visa.
Compare to its competitors Amazon is doing much better. With an EPS of 2.04 in 2009, 1.51 in 2008 and 1.14 in 2007 Amazon shows its ability to growth and have a much higher sucess than Ebay or Barnes&Nobles which have an EPS of 1.848 and 1.284. Out of these three companies Amazon has made consistant increase and in a higher rate in the EPS in the past three years; and this shows it’s doing better than its competitors.
In my opinion, Amazon is doing better than it’s competitor Ebay. After researching on Yahoo Finace, Amazon’s EPS has been steadily growing in the last 3 years. Amazon’s EPS in 2009 was 2.04, 1.49 in 2008 and 1.12 in 2007. Comparing that to Amazon’s well advertised competitor Ebay, it’s not hard to see that Amazon is doing better out of the two companies. Ebay’s EPS numbers, although each year are increasing, are lower than Amazon. For 2009 1.84, in 2008 it was 1.39, and 2007 it was 0.26. In conclusion, after looking at EPS of both companies, Amazon is preforming better.
The reason that Amazon has been able to survive for so long and make so much profit is because they have the ability to continue to remarket themselves with products. Originally Amazon was just an online bookstore, while that was successful, that in no way could have made Amazon the money making business they are today. They molded to what the market was asking for. First by selling more products like DVDs and selling music online. Now you can rent movies from Amazon as you can from Netflix. The newest edition to Amazon’s workforce is the Kindle, which allows users to by and download digital books from the Amazon website. Amazon remarkets themselves to what the market asks for and has become extremely successful because of it.
Amazon is one of the biggest buying websites on the web. They became more successful by then selling music and movies. They been able to survive because they remarket there products. Amazon as everything cheaper than what the retail stores has.
Amozon is one of the best to use links and banners on the web sites. As one of the biggest online retailers they have become very good at sales and promotions. Amozon uses on line coupons to lure their customers in.you cant open your email without finding something from amazon .com Some time it becomes very frusrating with all the pop up but i guess i work for them…..
This is a make up blog for Cummings.Cummings is one of the biggest landlords in the state. This company is considerd to be one of the best run in it field by many. Cummings has many differnt types of propertys and many diffent types of business rent or lease from them.SIZES AND RATE ALL ARE DIFFERENT one can not be compared to another. Aacross the board Cumming has seemed to do a good job keep there places filled.They have adjusted rents when needed. They never seam to be a seller there alway on the watch for a good buy….. they make it work
Amazon does a very good job in terms of sales promotion and advertising. When the Amazon website comes up down both sides of the web page are sales promotions. For example, right now there is a promotion to sell books back. Normally an icon saying that might not catch your attention but around the end of the semester seems to be a fit time to display that. In terms of Sales promotions Amazon has a link on the top that says todays deals. When you click on that link it brings up all the deals for the day. That is very effective because most people who are shopping are looking for deals. To have a link that brings you right to all the deals is brilliant.
The cumming center has two things that stick out to me, the locations and the readiness that they have for labs, and technology. If you wanted to get less then 30,000 sq. ft. you would pay $24 per sq. ft. If you had the intentions of getting a place with over 30,000 sq. ft. you wold have a fixed rate of $28 per sq. ft. In my opinion lab space should have a locked in fee, unless you have special technology that requires such space. However the closer you get to Boston the lab prices continue to grow. This offers tenants to be right along the highway if they wish so. That way they are getting public advertising, as everyone would see their sign( pending they have a sign). As a promotional strategy i could imagine they would have free parking as a way to entice people to consider the property. They may also have “get your first month free” as a promotion and advertising . Perhaps because due to this economy they might have a program that says if you have been a tenant for X amount of time that you might get a discount on your monthly bill. these are all incentives that the cumming center could use in order to retain their tenants.
Amazon is one amazing website from selling books to movies and music. The way they conduct business is similar to that of Google with all kinds of advertising on the sides of the website. Not only is there advertising but incentives to at least look for deals on computers to watches. Amazon also works with Visa for credit card give backs if you buy through the website. Amazon’s CEO has even reached out to the community by contributing to a health care program in the Seattle area which will receive a low monthly payment for primary care according to the Wall Street Journal. Its survival is also due to the fact that Amazon reaches out to Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. Amazon is one amazing company and will continue to grow.
Amazons main customers are people in school. They sell a lot of used or new books for cheaper then in a schools bookstore. Same with movies and other products. Kids in school go to Amazon for their books for college because of the cheap price. Students talk to other students and spread the word about them.
Amazon’s EPS has almost doubled in the past three years. In their fiscal year for 2007 their EPS was 1.12 and a year later in 2008 it had increased to 1.49. In their fiscal year of 2009 their EPS had increased to 2.04. eBay, a competitor of Amazon had a 2007 EPS of .25 which increased to 1.36 in 2008 and in 2009 their EPS was recorded as 1.83. eBay’s EPS is currently 1.61. and Amazon’s is at 2.28. This shows that Amazon has performed better than it’s competiors for the past three years.
Amazon’s EPS for the last three years are 2.08 for 2009, 1.52 for 2008, and 1.15 for 2007. In comparison, Ebay (one of Amazon’s closest competitors) has an EPS over the last three years of 1.83 in 2009, 1.36 in 2008, and 0.26 in 2007. Although both companies have shown growth each year, Amazon currently has the edge overall. That being said, if Ebay continues to grow at the rate is has been over the past few years, it is very likely that it will overtake Amazon in terms of EPS over the next few years. But for now, Amazon is on top with a solid sustained growth.
I believe that Amazon is so successful because of the fact that it targets both the customer and the company. By offering such items as the visa, advertising and coupons,they appeal to everyone. By keeping up with the newest products and advertising all over the web. Amazon has shown that their competitors are of no threat to their site.
Apple seems to growing at quite a rapid rate excluding the years of 2001 all the way to 2004 where the company wasn’t doing as good. in the year of 2009 the company alone had 46.71 billion dollars in revenue. Apple is financed by 75% equity and the other remaining 25% comes from common stock holders. Also Apple has no debt at this time.
Amazon’s EPS has grown 90 cents since 2007.Currently it is as $2.08. It’s main competitor EBAY has grown $1.56 since 2007.Ebay’s EPS is currently $1.83. I wouldn’t depend on EPS alone to determine which company I would invest in. Amazon is obviously doing better but that doesnt mean EBAY is not a good investment.From 2008 to 2009 their EPS’s have grown pretty evenly.Since 2008 Amazons EPS has grown 55 cents and Ebay’s has grown a close 47 cents. Currently Amazon’s is EPS is 25 cents higher but it’s stock is 4 times the price of EBAY’s.Which is good if you got in early.I think the train has left the station though.We are talking about earnings per share so an investor like myself thats doesnt have deep pockets EBAY looks like a better deal because i can buy more shares which means more earnings. Amazon is a better company but for me personally EBAY is a better investment and a good hold.
Amazons earnings per share in 2007 were $1.15 ( all earnings are not diluted) in 2008 the Eps was $1.52. A small increase but still rising . The earnings per share only continue to grow in 2009 with the Eps of $2.08. E-bay’s Eps in 2008 was $ 1.37 and in 2009 the Eps was $ 1.85 with the growth of 48 cents for the year. Amazon seems to be growing quicker and faster than Ebay, Although Amazons stock cost more. At this time Amazon is preforming better then Ebay.
According to Yahoo finance, The EPS for Amazon in the past three years have been: 2007 = $1.14, 2008 = $1.51 and 2009 = $2.4. Ebay’s EPS for the past three years have been: 2007 = $0.26, 2008 = $1.39 and 2009 = 1.84. Just by looking at the numbers you can clearly see that Amazon has been doing better than it’s competitor Ebay. I personally prefer to shop at Amazon, since there is no need to bid on the items and you can buy them right away without having to wait and see if you won the bid. Amazon is faster in the shopping process and it doesn’t leave the consumer waiting expectantly to find out that they lost the bid on the last second. Amazon is also very effective with their advertising and sales promotion which encourages buyers to shop more at their website instead on their competitors.