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Source: Amazon 10-K Annual Report
Published: January 2020
Amazon’s 2019 10-K
Circulated: March 9, 2020
A 10-K is an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that gives a comprehensive summary of a company’s financial performance. Among the 83 pages published in Amazon’s 2019 annual report:
Amazon employed approximately 798,000 full-time and part-time employees as of December 31, 2019.
Amazon organizes operations into three segments to evaluate business performance and manage operations: North America, International, and AWS.
Net income increased 15% to $11.6 billion, compared $10.1 billion in 2018
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