Bloomberg - GP function in the Bloomberg Terminal

Let's check Amazon's current situation and how the company has expanded.

• Source: CrunchBase. n.d. Price of selected acquisitions by Amazon as of August 2024 (in million U.S. dollars). Statista. Accessed 6 March, 2018.,  https://www.statista.com/statistics/192309/price-of-selected-acquisitions-by-amazon-since-1999/.
   
• Diversification – Amazon has businesses in many different areas. By doing this, the company may be trying to mitigate the risk and encourage experimentation (source: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-manage-outside-innovation/ , readings from Innovation and Strategy in the Digital Economy course)
   

Business: retail, delivery, healthcare. banking is next. 

Analytics: Amazon’s business is built around data

Regulation: a challenge for everyone

Banking is a highly regulated area. Amazon needs to partner up; or exploit government incentives (i.e. PSD2 in EU).

Prices are time series. GP function within the Bloomberg Terminal shows the historical development of the company.

It is possible to add annotation onto the price charts and save your progress. However, it seems that annotations do not appear in the exported files. The screenshot of results was taken in this example.

• Horizontal lines indicates different acquisitions by Amazon. Unusual observation: 2016 was the year with no acquisitions;
• Full 'timeline' of Amazon is available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon.com
• Time plot is the visualization of values against time;
• More on the time series components: https://www.otexts.org/fpp/6/1 and https://www.otexts.org/fpp

When you work on Bloomberg or Datastream remember to save your charts.