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Back when the company had its IPO in 1997, Amazon was pretty much just an online bookstore. The company sold its shares for just $18 to raise $54 million at a valuation of $438 million. Today, it takes Amazon about two days to raise that much cash (based on its 2016 free cash flow). If you had been able to buy $2,000 of Amazon's IPO and held on to it for the past 20 years, you'd be sitting on about $1,136,000 in Amazon stock today. That's a return of 56,821%, or an average of around 37% annually.
Amazon earnings: $1.78 per share, vs expected EPS of $1.11. Amazon shares swung higher after the retail giant posted its fifth-straight period of profitability, and handily beat Wall Street's forecasts. The online retailer reported earnings per share of $1.78 adjusted, easily sweeping past expectations for $1.11, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate. Revenue came in at $30.4 billion, also beating forecasts of $29.55 billion.