Amazon has a special business that investors 'don't understand,' and it's more important to the company than AWS
But Michael Pachter thinks investors and other analysts that focus on those area are overlooking a big part of the company's recent success and its future promise: its business of selling and shipping products on behalf of other companies.
Amazon is best known as an online store that sells goods directly to consumers. But it also operates a kind of marketplace where manufacturers, mom-and-pop merchants, and other major retailers also offer products. When shoppers search Amazon's site, there's a good chance they'll find goods offered by those third parties rather than by Amazon itself. Indeed more than half of the products listed on Amazon come from those third parties, Pachter estimated.
Amazon will offer investors and analysts more insights into its third-party sales business on Thursday, when it
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