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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Shares an Amazon kind of bouncing around right now, but

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Speaker 2: rallying in the after hours four point eight percent, gaining

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Speaker 2: as much as six percent earlier. This after our first

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Speaker 2: quarter earnings per share beat estimates. We did see that

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Speaker 2: results came in way ahead of estimates, including the key

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Speaker 2: AWS segment, extending the company's recent streak of beating estimates.

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Speaker 2: Second quarter sales and operating income guidance did though come

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Speaker 2: in a touch soft.

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Speaker 1: All right, So let's get to it with us as

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence senior Alys Putnamgoyle and Anna Ragrana on Amazon

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Speaker 1: and their outlook again, the stock up about four point

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Speaker 1: six percent. Gosh, not sure where to start here because

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Speaker 1: there's so many moving parts, honourg let me start with

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Speaker 1: you in terms of we always think about AWS, but

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Speaker 1: tell us about from your perspective, what you what jumps

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Speaker 1: out for you for Amazon?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say AWS, Madgins. I mean, I just

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Speaker 3: can't believe how big this number is. Thirty seven point

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Speaker 3: six percent operating margins compared to last years twenty four percent,

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Speaker 3: So that's almost you know, fourteen percent increes and that

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Speaker 3: that is this phenomenal and basically shows the scalability of

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Speaker 3: this business model. And you know, frankly speaking, we weren't

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Speaker 3: I think this is this should be really good signed

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Speaker 2: How do they do this? Given that Microsoft is catching up,

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Speaker 3: I think they did a lot of cost rationalization over

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Speaker 3: that has to do with it. Now, I mean, to

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Speaker 3: same time, I mean, you've never seen thirty seven point

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Speaker 1: Right, so forgive me punam, come on in, because yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean the retail side of the business is really

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Speaker 4: Sure, the retail numbers were actually just in line, so

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Speaker 4: they met expectations and they looked at that and advertising.

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Speaker 4: I think the story really is on AWS. That's where

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Speaker 4: the beat came from. But I would say, you know,

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Speaker 2: Put what about advertising here? This is something that not

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Speaker 4: Advertising was strong, once again relatively inline with expectations to

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Speaker 2: Honor rog one hundred billion dollar annual revenue run rate

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Speaker 1: Poonam, what are they going to do? Like, what are

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Speaker 4: I think the first question is how much did in

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Speaker 2: Honor rog I'm just taking some time to look through

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And frankly speaking, he had to say that because

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Speaker 2: Hey, we forgive us, but we got earnings crossing again

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Speaker 2: right now. Shares AMD down about four point two percent

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Speaker 1: Amd On now down more than five percent. In the

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Speaker 1: after market, Amazon, we continue to talk about it. Their

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Speaker 1: I just want to point in Amazon shaares now are

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Speaker 2: Put them on a report like this. I see the

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Speaker 2: they invented the category, no question.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but they invented the category and Microsoft's been closing

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Speaker 1: Well's so funny that you say that I'm reading to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So the way you want to think about it,

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Speaker 3: Microsoft disclose some numbers. When we back into that, it

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Speaker 2: Put on my I'm you know, in our conversations last

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, I'm still watching shares of Amazon up

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Speaker 1: Same question to you put and what could they say

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Speaker 4: If they say retail growth or the e commerce business

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Speaker 1: All right, listen, We so appreciate both of you weighing

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Speaker 1: don't know that I want to say complicated, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of moving pieces and so we do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so great to get both of their perspectives. Put

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Speaker 1: them Goyle, she's senior analysts for e commerce at a

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Speaker 1: leisure off price retail on Zoom from India.

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Speaker 2: It's two am, so thank you put them.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, we owe you, We owe you. And

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Speaker 1: Anna Ragrana always so helpful when we have to go

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Speaker 1: through these reports. Senior technology analyst Bloomberg Intelligence joining us

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Speaker 1: from our Chicago But are really both of them, We

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Speaker 1: so so appreciate the insight