NEW YORK: Two major Wall Street brokerages were the first to value Amazon.com Inc in excess of $1 trillion (725 billion pounds) on Friday after another set of blockbuster quarterly results for the online shopping behemoth.
Analysts at Macquarie and Monnes, Crespi, Hardt and Co, respectively, raised their price targets to $2,100 and $2,200, valuing the company at $1.02 trillion and $1.07 trillion.
Investors have been debating for months which of the United States’ tech sector heavyweights – Alphabet Inc, Apple Inc and Amazon – would be first to top a $1 trillion.
A rough ride over the past month sparked by the Cambridge Analytica scandal and broader weakness in the stock market had appeared to delay that milestone.
But a more than doubling of profits in the first quarter by billionaire Jeff Bezos’ online retailer, and an 8 percent rise of its shares on Friday may put it back on the table.
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