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Moody’s: Amazon is ‘weakest’ of large retailers

August 31, 2017

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Amazon isn’t as dominant as is widely believed — at least not according to a new report from Moody’s Investor Services.

Yes, the online giant continues to outpace other retailers when it comes to online sales growth, and its stock has gone through the roof. But it falls behind its large competitors in some key areas, according to Moody’s VP and lead retail analyst Charles O’Shea, reported MarketWatch.

“Although Amazon’s share price is outperforming retailers, conventional methods of evaluating operating performance, such as operating margin or any profitability measure, suggest that Amazon is actually the weakest of the large retailers, excluding sales growth,” O’Shea wrote in a report.

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