Amazon Stock Crushed the Market in 2024. Can It Repeat in 2025?

Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) were up 44% in 2024, handily outpacing the 23% return for the S&P 500. And as far as I'm concerned, this outperformance was easy to anticipate for investors who knew what to look for.Over the last 20 years, Amazon stock has dropped 25% or more many times. But it has never posted a year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue. Therefore, Amazon's stock price isn't strongly correlated with its sales, which have always gone up, whereas the stock price has its ups and downs.For Amazon, operating income has long had a stronger correlation with its stock price. Directionally speaking, when the company's operating income rises, the stock price tends to follow, as the chart below illustrates.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool