Street View: Amazon's web services on track for growth
** Amazon.com AMZN.O posts Q3 profit and sales above Wall Street estimates, boosted by retail sales
** Stock up 5.76% to $197.14 premarket
LONG-TERM GROWTH DRIVERS IN PLACE
** Wedbush ("outperform," PT: $250) says Amazon has a number of drivers for future margin expansion, including continued cost efficiencies within its network and the ongoing mix-shift towards higher margin Amazon Web Services (AWS) and advertising revenue
** Canaccord Genuity ("buy," PT: $230) notes AI innovation continues to drive robust AWS growth and improve ops across other businesses, like its AI-powered shopping assistant, Rufus
** J.P. Morgan ("overweight," PT: $250) remains comfortable with co's capital expenditure set-up outlook this year and higher spending in 2025, given its clear path to AI monetization through AWS
** "We continue to believe AWS is well-positioned in GenAI through its full-stack approach across chips, foundational models and agents/applications"
** Pivotal Research ("buy," PT: $260) says AMZN remains on track at AWS and appears ahead of schedule on better monetization in its core retail/advertising/subscription businesses
Reporting by Kanchana Chakravarty in Bengaluru
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