Amazon forecasts holiday sales slowdown; stock drops 12%.

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October 28, 2022

Amazon disappointed Wall Street on Thursday by forecasting a Christmas sales drop due to inflation-wary customers and businesses spending less.
Amazon’s 12% extended-trade stock decline destroyed $140 billion in market valuation, greater than the entire value of Morgan Stanley, Netflix, and Lockheed Martin.
According to IBES data from Refinitiv, net sales were $127.1 billion in the third quarter that ended Sept. 30.
In contrast to this, sales grew 9% in 2021 and 38% in 2020.