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Amazon posted lower-than-anticipated revenue in the holiday fourth quarter and announced disappointing first-quarter guidance, sending its stock down 4 percent in after-hours trading.
The giant online retailer’s fourth-quarter revenue came in about $1 billion lower than analyst estimates, at $43.7 billion. Amazon also announced first-quarter guidance on revenue and operating income that came in below estimates.
In a call with reporters, Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky called out a negative, and unexpected, foreign exchange rate impact. It resulted in a swing of about $800 million in revenue off of what Amazon was expecting for the quarter, he said.
Amazon did beat analyst expectations on profits with earnings of $1.54 a share versus estimates of $1.37. That makes it seven straight quarters of profits for the company that once carried the stigma of not being able to make money.
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