By now, I think it's safe to say that Jim Cramer was dead wrong.
And I was right on the money.
Here's the thing. I remember very clearly the day that Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) crossed the $1,000 mark on May 31, 2017.
Cramer, the host of CNBC's "Mad Money" looked at the price and slammed it. He said that "psychologically" $1,000 is a lot to pay for a stock he felt was getting ahead of itself.
As the saying goes, that was then and this is now.
No doubt, the tech leader hit a rough patch late last year with the rest of the market. And it has come under fire recently as part of the Big Tech backlash.
Yet, as the firm prepares to report earnings later this week, the stock is once again trading in the $2,000 range, double what Cramer was worrying about.
Not only that, but the "King of E-commerce" is just shy of hitting another historic moment. It's roughly 2% from having a $1 trillion market cap.
And today, I'm going to show you why I still firmly believe the stock will hit at least $3,000 a share - and likely much, much more than that...
Check it out...
Tracking Impressive Gains
At its current rate of advance, Amazon is close to being one of the more elite stocks of all time. Among big tech leaders, only Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has a $1 trillion valuation.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the first to get there. But it has since lost about 10% of its market cap.
If you have any doubts about whether Amazon is the kind of stock you can count on for the long haul, just look at the facts.
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Since the market turned up again last Dec. 24, it has gained some 49%. By contrast the bellwether S&P 500 is up 27%.
That means a stock that the media wrote off as deeply troubled just last fall, beat the broader market by 78%.
Please don't think I'm gilding the lily here. This performance is no aberration.
Over the past five years, it has crushed the broader market by an astounding 880%!
I'm bringing up the five-year track record for a very good reason. See, I predicted back on Oct. 30, 2013 that the pioneer of cloud hosting would hit $1,000.
And a lot of folks in the financial media found that prediction just plain crazy.
So, when I say that Amazon is destined to hit $3,000 a share, I believe I have both the empirical data, and the credibility to make that claim.
Making a Bold Claim
Make no mistake. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos just never quits looking for ways to add more growth. The idea is simple: continue to build investor value with high-margin growth that juices up the earnings per share.
Here are four examples of just what I'm talking about.
- Last February, it was the lead investor in electric-truck maker Rivian.
- It was also among the lead investors in a recent $530 million financing for Aurora Innovation, a self-driving auto startup.
- The firm invested just shy of $1 billion last year for PillPack, moving into the online-pharmacy business.
- In April, we learned it wants to launch a constellation of 3,236 satellites to beam down broadband web access to much of the world.
Those kinds of deal don't generate the type of heavy buzz Amazon got when it bought upscale grocery leader Whole Foods in 2017. At a cool $13.4 billion, the price tag stood out.
But it's the quiet moves that often have made this such a well-run firm.
The Undisputed Online Shopping Leader
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It's hard to believe in retrospect just what a big deal Bezos created with the 1-Click feature on Sept. 12, 1997 was. That tech breakthrough helped Amazon pull away from a crowded online shopping field to become the undisputed leader.
Today, there are literally hundreds of thousands of goods you can buy through the portal. And Bezos was savvy in the way he kept adding more third-party merchants who could sell through the store.
Consider that Amazon now has more than 2 million vendors who use its store front. Of those, some 100,000 each sold $100,000 worth of goods 2018 alone. That's a total of $10 billion in gross sales for only the top 5% of those third-party sellers.
Let's not forget the firm's Amazon Web Services (AWS) is nothing short of a cloud-hosting juggernaut. It quietly launched in 2002 as a simple add-on service making good use of its racks of servers.
Today, it remains the clear hosting leader. In the most recent quarter, AWS had sales of roughly $7.7 billion. That's more than seven times the revenue in the comparable quarter five years ago.
Meantime, Amazon has moved into smart speakers. Its Alexa is considered state of the art in AI-driven home systems.
The firm also has jumped into online streaming. It has competitive offerings in both music and on-demand video, with the latter delivering it three Oscars.
Meantime, the company is a marvel of logistics. It has invested billions in cutting-edge robotics, software, and automation, not to mention having its own fleet of delivery vehicles.
This is why Prime members can now get same-day delivery for hundreds of products.
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Now then, the company reports earnings on July 25, and I wouldn't suggest buying until we get the results.
If we get lucky, Amazon will miss forecasts and the stock will sell off. This will give us the chance to buy at a discount from the stock's amazing trajectory to $3,000 and beyond.
Consider this: for the past three years, Amazon has grown its earnings per share by roughly 99%. That's a run rate of doubling roughly every 10 months.
But let's take a more conservative approach and cut that figure back by two-thirds.
We'd still see the per-share profits doubling in just a tad over two years. Even if we double the period to be extra conservative, we're looking at 100% gains in less than five years.
Now you know why I believe my $3,000 price tag is once again on the money.
In other words, this mega-cap stock is the kind you can count on for the long haul.
And that makes it a great foundational holding in a winning tech portfolio.
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