Revenues for Q1 rose 17 percent from the year before to USD 59.7 billion, hit by USD 1.1 billion worth of negative forex effects. Without these, sales would have risen 19 percent. The operating profit more than doubled to USD 4.4 billion from 1.9 billion the year before, while the net profit lifted to USD 3.6 billion or USD 7.09 per diluted share, from 1.6 billion and 3.27 per diluted share. The group operating cash flow jumped to USD 34.4 billion for the trailing 12 months, from 18.2 billion year-on-year, while the free cash flow increased to USD 23 billion from 7.3 billion.
For North America, revenues lifted to USD 35.81 billion from 30.72 million, with the operating profit rose to 2.287 billion from 1.149 billion. At International, revenues climbed to 16.19 billion from 14.87 billion, and the net loss narrowing to 90 million from a loss of 622 million. At AWS, sales jumped to USD 2.22 billion from 1.40 billion and the operating profit to USD 7.69 billion from 5.44 billion.
For the second quarter, Amazon sees revenues up 13-20 percent to USD 59.5-63.5 billion and the operating profit advancing to USD 2.6-3.6 billion from 3.0 billion the year earlier.
