Amazon, a major IT company in the United States, announced its financial results for the three months to March, and the use of online shopping continued to increase due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, so the final profit was more than three times that of the previous year. As a result, sales and profits increased significantly.
Amazon announced its financial results from January to last month on the 29th, with sales of 108.518 billion dollars and 11.8 trillion yen in Japanese yen, an increase of about 44% compared to the same period of the previous year. I did.
In addition, the final profit was 8,107 million dollars, and the Japanese yen was more than 880 billion yen, which was more than tripled, resulting in a significant increase in sales and profits.
This is due to the continued increase in the use of online shopping due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, as well as the expansion of the cloud business, which stores data via the Internet.
In addition, regarding the results for the three months to June, Amazon has indicated that sales will increase by up to 30% compared to the same period of the previous year.
In the United States, Apple and Facebook also announced their financial results this week, but each company is doing well due to the growing demand for services that can be used at home, and the performance of huge IT companies continues to expand even under Corona. I will.