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Amazon.com, Inc. - Common Stock (AMZN) Mar 2026 Filing Analysis
Does management do what it says?
Q2 2026 operating income was $27.461 billion, exceeding the upper end of guidance by $3.461 billion, or approximately 14.4%. (1 exceeded across 1 tracked commitment)
“Operating income is expected to be between $20.0 billion and $24.0 billion, compared with $19.2 billion in second quarter 2025.”
Management plans to increase 2026 cash capital expenditures, primarily for technology infrastructure supporting AWS growth and additional fulfillment capacity. — target: Cash capital expenditures are expected to increase from the Q1 2026 level of $43.2 billion; no full-year amount was provided (+4 more commitments)
“Cash capital expenditures were $24.3 billion and $43.2 billion during Q1 2025 and Q1 2026, which primarily reflect investments in technology infrastructure (the majority of which is to support AWS business growth) and in additional capacity to support our fulfillment network, both of which we expect to increase in 2026.”
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How durable is the business?
Amazon materially deepened its technology and infrastructure moat, especially for AWS. AWS property and equipment increased 17.4% in one quarter, and Q1 net property-and-equipment additions allocated to AWS more than doubled year over year. This supports capacity and switching-cost advantages, but it also raises depreciation, energy, and capital intensity: trailing-twelve-month free cash flow fell from $25.925 billion to $1.232 billion. (1 expanding)
“AWS $190,055 $223,056... Total net additions... AWS $20,464 $41,516. Free cash flow $25,925 $1,232.”
Third-party seller services expanded faster than Amazon's total revenue and increased its revenue share. This supports continued marketplace scaling: Amazon earns commissions and related fulfillment and shipping fees without necessarily owning the underlying inventory. (1 expanding)
“Third-party seller services $36,512 $41,578. Includes commissions and any related fulfillment and shipping fees, and other third-party seller services.”
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Where does growth come from?
AI-related AWS commitments expanded materially in Q1 FY26: OpenAI added $100 billion over eight years to an existing $38 billion arrangement, creating a disclosed total OpenAI arrangement of up to $138 billion. The filing also describes a commercial AWS arrangement with Anthropic, but does not quantify a new Anthropic expansion in this document. This is a newly disclosed, large-scale demand signal rather than a multi-quarter growth-rate series. (2 new trend across 2 signals)
“In Q1 2026, AWS and OpenAI Group PBC (“OpenAI”) announced an expansion of the existing $38.0 billion multi-year commitment and commercial arrangement with OpenAI by $100.0 billion over 8.0 years.”
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