Loose Cannon: Amazon’s $912 Million Loss Success Story – A Prediction

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According to my homegrown number-crunching techniques, when Amazon.com releases its financials, it may take a loss in the neighborhood of $912 million loss for 2001. If Amazon keeps it that low, it should break out the champagne and get all of its employees sozzled.

A $912 million net loss will mean this prototypical dot-com is getting healthier, if one can use that term about a firm that has yet to show a profit after six-and-a-half years. Nonetheless, below are my predictions for Amazon