Amazon Q1 2026 Earnings Review

Amazon Q1 2026 Earnings Review

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Table of Contents

a. Key Points

  • AWS acceleration continues.
  • Fastest unit growth for the e-commerce business in 4 years.
  • Record quarterly EBIT margin. 
  • Maintained CapEx guidance.

b. Demand

  • Beat revenue estimate by 2.4% & beat guidance by 3%. 
  • Beat AWS revenue estimate by 2.4%. 
  • Beat ad revenue estimate by 1.8%.

c. Profits

  • Beat EBIT estimate by 15.5% & beat guide by 12.6%.
  • Beat EPS estimate by about $0.12 ex-Anthropic gains.
  • *Net income margin excluding this help would have been 7.4%.* The 16.7% result below got a ton of Anthropic help.

d. Balance Sheet