Return-on-Tangible-Equity is calculated as Net Income divided by its average total shareholder tangible equity. Total shareholder tangible equity equals to Total Stockholders Equity minus Intangible Assets. Amazon.com's annualized net income for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $42,496 Mil. Amazon.com's average shareholder tangible equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $165,812 Mil. Therefore, Amazon.com's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 25.63%.
The historical rank and industry rank for Amazon.com's Return-on-Tangible-Equity or its related term are showing as below:
AMZN'
s Return-on-Tangible-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.68 Med: 22.29 Max: 56.15
Current: 20.87
During the past 13 years, Amazon.com's highest Return-on-Tangible-Equity was 56.15%. The lowest was -3.68%. And the median was 22.29%.
AMZN's Return-on-Tangible-Equity is ranked better than 75.19% of 1052
companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 7.605
vs AMZN: 20.87
Amazon.com Return-on-Tangible-Equity Historical Data
The historical data trend for Amazon.com's Return-on-Tangible-Equity can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of Amazon.com's Return-on-Tangible-Equity
For the Internet Retail subindustry, Amazon.com's Return-on-Tangible-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Return-on-Tangible-Equity data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Amazon.com's Return-on-Tangible-Equity Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry
For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Amazon.com's Return-on-Tangible-Equity distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Amazon.com's Return-on-Tangible-Equity falls into.
Amazon.com Return-on-Tangible-Equity Calculation
Amazon.com's annualized Return-on-Tangible-Equity for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
In the calculation of annual Return-on-Tangible-Equity, the net income of the last fiscal year and the average total shareholder tangible equity over the fiscal year are used. In calculating the quarterly data,
the net income data used here is four times the quarterly (Dec. 2023) net income data.
Return-on-Tangible-Equity is displayed in the 10-year financial page.
Return-on-Tangible-Equity measures the rate of return on the ownership interest (shareholder's tangible equity) of the common stock owners. It measures a firm's efficiency at generating profits from every unit of shareholders' tangible equity (shareholders equity minus intangibles). Return-on-Tangible-Equity shows how well a company uses investment funds to generate earnings growth. Return-on-Tangible-Equitys between 15% and 20% are considered desirable.
Be Aware
Net Income is used.
Because a company can increase its Return-on-Tangible-Equity by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high Return-on-Tangible-Equity companies. Like Return-on-Tangible-Asset, Return-on-Tangible-Equity is calculated with only 12 months data. Fluctuations in company's earnings or business cycles can affect the ratio drastically. It is important to look at the ratio from a long term perspective.
Asset light businesses require very few assets to generate very high earnings. Their Return-on-Tangible-Equitys can be extremely high.
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Amazon is a leading online retailer and one of the highest-grossing e-commerce aggregators, with $386 billion in net sales and approximately $578 billion in estimated physical/digital online gross merchandise volume in 2021. Retail-related revenue represents approximately 80% of the total, followed by Amazon Web Services' cloud computing, storage, database, and other offerings (10%-15%), advertising services (5%), and other. International segments constitute 25%-30% of Amazon's non-AWS sales, led by Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
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