Company Analysis

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)

Nasdaq: AMZN · Retail-Catalog & Mail-Order Houses · Seattle, WA · filing with the SEC since 1997
Grade7.0
◀ Past 6.8● Present 7.5▶ Future 6.2

The grade of Amazon.com, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
7.0/10
◀ Past6.825% of the headline
● Present7.545% of the headline
▶ Future6.230% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.8/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 78th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Amazon.com, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
7.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+20.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 76th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Amazon.com, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $136 billion in fiscal 2016 to $717 billion in fiscal 2025, up 20.3% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span20.3%top 40% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 17% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 22% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 17% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 2.0% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 127 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 37th percentile among 20 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Amazon.com, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 2.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 127 sales (127 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 45% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

7.5/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 19%: 19¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 50%: owes 50¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 56th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Amazon.com, Inc. earned about 19 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 44 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 50 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 1.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 33% of its family
  • return on equitytop 29% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 28% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
8.8/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 12% of 29 in its family; net margin 10.8%.

weight 33% of this tense · 88th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Amazon.com, Inc.'s standing among 29 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $717 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 2% by size; a net margin of 10.8% ranks in the top 5%; revenue growth of 11.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 29% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$716.9Btop 2% of its family
  • net margin10.8%top 5% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth11.7%top 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
9.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 5% of 16 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2016.

weight 22% of this tense · 95th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Amazon.com, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Jassy, Andrew R (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2016-04-07, 10.6 years (top 9% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10.5 years (top 3%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (top 3%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge2 in three years among 18 peopletop 3% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed10.5 yearstop 3% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record10.6 yearstop 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

6.2/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 39% of 29 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 39th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Amazon.com, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $87 billion against debt of $66 billion leaves 2.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 24% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.1% of revenue (bottom 40%); a gross margin of 50.3% (top 46%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets2.6%bottom 24% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue1.1%bottom 40% of its family
  • gross margin50.3%top 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
7.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 25% of 29 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 29 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Amazon.com, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 11.7% a year over the last three filed years against 20.3% over all 10, slowing (top 40% of its family); the newest year grew 12.4% (top 22%); capital spending grew 27.5% a year (top 13%) (its annual reports). Amazon.com, Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: North America at $426 billion (60%), International at $162 billion (23%), Amazon Web Services at $129 billion (18%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-8.6 points a yeartop 40% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth12.4%top 22% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending27.5%top 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
6.1/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 39% of 25 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 61st percentile among 25 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Amazon.com, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $717 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.9% above the $711 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 38% of its family); net income of $78 billion against a prior three-year average of $29 billion (top 14%); a net margin of 10.8% against 4.7% before (top 42%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace0.9%bottom 38% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+168%top 14% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+6.2 pointstop 42% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton AMZN · research, not advice