Aug 26, 2018 at 5:02PM Four years ago, after enduring its second full-year earnings-per-share loss in the last three years despite 20% top-line growth, Amazon bears questioned whether the e-commerce company could become a reliably profitable entity. Amazon underperformed the S&P 500 by 36 percentage points that year, falling 22% versus the 14% total return from the greater market. Undeterred, CEO Jeff Bezos had other plans to grow the company's bottom line - and those plans didn't involve e-commerce.

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In his 2014 shareholder letter, Bezos wrote that 'Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing big and fast,' later adding: 'Finally, I'm optimistic that AWS will have strong returns on capital.' Now Amazon has another embryonic business, and it could be the next AWS for investors.

Image source: Getty Images. Advertising will disproportionally reward Amazon investors In what's become the worst-kept secret in the advertising industry, Amazon is aggressively building out its digital advertising business to better compete with Alphabet and Facebook. Although it's folly to expect Amazon to immediately threaten the Alphabet-Facebook duopoly on a market-share basis, even small market-share gains will disproportionally reward investors. The chart below compares Amazon's operating income by division to Alphabet's and Facebook's in 2017.

Data source: Company annual reports. Revenue and operating income in millions. Chart by author. As the chart shows, digital advertising has a significantly higher operating margin profile than Amazon's retailing businesses, or even Amazon's high-margin AWS division; pure-play digital advertiser Facebook's operating margin is approximately 50%.

Alphabet's margin is understated because the company reported an operating loss of. Removing that division and other nondirect items would give Alphabet's digital-ad-based Google division an operating margin of 30%.

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If Amazon's advertising division simply matched Alphabet's 30%, every $1 million in ad revenue would produce more profit than $11 million in North American retailing revenue. Amazon is growing fast in a fast-growing industry Unlike AWS, Bezos hasn't discussed marketing significantly in a shareholder letter. However, investors noticed the company added another division in its quarterly report: 'other.' While this includes other revenue, the company notes it is 'primarily' attributable to marketing.

Over the last two quarters Amazon has reported revenue growth attributable to this division of approximately 130%. The point is: Amazon is succeeding in this space and acquiring market share.

Metric Q1 2017 Q2 2017 Q3 2017 Q4 2017 Q1 2018 Q2 2018 Revenue $850 million $945 million $1.123 billion $1.735 billion $2.031 billion $2.194 billion Year-over-year growth 58% 53% 58% 60% 132% 129% Data source: Amazon's second-quarter 10-Q. Like Amazon's other businesses - cloud computing and e-commerce - digital advertising has a long runway for growth.

Advertising-focused market-research firm eMarketer reports that this year mobile digital advertising spend will eclipse TV-based advertising, and total digital advertising - desktop, laptop, and mobile - will take nearly half (48.5%) of all spending. Inspired by the idea of 'making your money work for you' at a young age, mostly because he was a lazy child, Jamal parlayed that inspiration into a love of the psychology of markets, competitive advantages, and thematic investing. He later shrug off that laziness, with a career that included stints as a mortgage trainer, a financial advisor, a Sr. Owc thunderbolt 3 dock for mac. Investments Communications Specialist, and a stockbroker. Jamal graduated from George Mason University with a bachelors of science in finance, American University with a masters in finance, and is a CFA charterholder.

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