As the stock market closed on Tuesday end of business, a brand new discovery was made. For the first time in history, Amazon surpassed its parent company and became the second most valuable publicly listed US company!
Amazon shares closed at 2.69% at $ 1,581, for a market capitalization of $ 768 billion. With this, the company underscored Wall Street’s confidence in its relentless expansion into cloud computing, groceries and other areas of business.
Amazon’s market price surged by 81% in the last week, as shoppers started preferring online shopping over regular stores. Further, cloud computing also has had a higher preference in the last few weeks. Amazon gained $60 billion in market value in just over a month. In February, it crossed to Microsoft to become the third most valuable company in the world by that measure.
Millennials have a lot going on for them. The one thing they love? The thrill they get from shopping. However, online shopping has become the preferred platform for practically everything. Seattle based Amazon dislodged Microsoft to become the third company on the list of the most valued publicly listed companies.
While these companies all ranked very closely on the market list, Amazon surged forward because of constant innovations and improvisations. Both Apple and Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, have gotten very comfortable in their positions and gotten a little lacklustre with their products.
“They’re using their cash flow to develop new businesses,” said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment strategist at Inverness Counsel in New York. “They could have Apple in their sights at some point.” The stock market “gurus” have given price targets for the three companies to stand at a capitalisation of $ 823 billion. On the other hand, Alphabet stands at $ 914 billion and Apple stands at $ 989 billion. If this continues, Amazon can quite easily take over Apple’s market value in a very short time span.
