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Amazon Finally Closes Above $1 Trillion After Months of Flirting

Amazon Finally Closes Above $1 Trillion After Months of Flirting

Amazon Finally Closes Above $1 Trillion After Months of Flirting
An Amazon logo sits on a cardboard delivery box as an employee processes customer orders ahead of shipping at one of Amazon.com Inc.’s fulfillment centers in Peterborough, U.K. (Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)  

(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. closed with a valuation above $1 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, after failing to hold above that threshold through the end of a trading day in the previous two sessions.

The stock closed up 2.3%, with the e-commerce company ending the day with a market cap of $1.021 trillion. Amazon briefly joined the 13-digit club on Friday, with shares surging in the wake of a blowout earnings report, but the stock closed off its high and ended with a valuation of $999.96 billion. The pattern repeated on Monday, with an intraday bounce above the level failing to hold.

This was something of a familiar story for the company. Amazon first earned a $1 trillion valuation in September 2018, but that was also on an intraday basis, and it failed to stay above the level through the close. The company also neared it in July 2019, again without success.

Amazon Finally Closes Above $1 Trillion After Months of Flirting

Amazon is only the fourth U.S. stock to close with this valuation, following Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Alphabet Inc., which joined the elite club for the first time just last month. Alphabet closed with a market valuation of about $993 billion on Tuesday after a disappointing earnings report sent the stock down 2.5%. Globally, the list also includes Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, which currently has a market cap of about $1.8 trillion.

The milestone also further extends the wealth of Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive officer, who owns more than 11.5% of outstanding Amazon shares, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Bezos, the richest man in the world, has a net worth of about $124 billion.

To contact the reporter on this story: Ryan Vlastelica in New York at rvlastelica1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Catherine Larkin at clarkin4@bloomberg.net

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