"The world's richest half-day tour" behind: two quarterly Amazon fell 2.5% after seven years is the most moderate.

US Eastern Time (July 27th, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) released the second quarter ended June 30 this year, of which earnings per share (EPS) from $ 1.78 last year plunged 71.6% to $ 0.4 , Which is well below the forecast of $ 1.41, the biggest drop since the 72.3% fall in EPS in the second quarter of 2014 and led directly to Friday's close (28 July), with Amazon plummeting 2.48% %), The market value of evaporation of about 12.5 billion a night.

However, the "Daily Economic News" reporter noted that the past seven years, Amazon released earnings after the first trading day, there have been 12 down. While the 2.5% decline is far lower than the average decline in the 12 trading days.

Seven years the most "moderate" crash

US financial media MarketWatch found that over the past seven years, the Amazon quarterly release after the first trading day, there are 12 trading days Amazon shares fell, the average decline of 7.6%; the rest of the day the overall average rose 7.3%.

In addition, the "Daily Economic News" reporter noted that the two years from the past two years, this time the Amazon 2.48% of the crash is the most "moderate" - the fourth quarter of 2015 after the release of the first transaction Amazon shares plunged 7.6%, 2016 third quarter after the release of plunged 5.1%, 2016 fourth quarter after the release of 3.5%.

In addition to the sharp decline in EPS, in the second quarter ended June 30, Amazon's net income of $ 197 million, compared with 857 million US dollars last year fell sharply 77%.

For the majority of investors, this is undoubtedly unacceptable. While Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is more because the company's stock price rose sharply in the short term, only when the half-day "the world's richest man."

Thursday trading hours, Amazon hit a high of $ 1083.31 to Bezos in the "world's richest man" seat for a few hours, then put the throne handed over to Bill Gates. Calculated by Thursday's closing price, Amazon's share price has fallen from the highest point of $ 63.27 (5.8%). Bezos currently holds about 80 million shares of Amazon, accounting for about 16.7%, that is, he held the stock value in just 24 hours evaporated about 5.1 billion US dollars.

"Forbes" the latest global list of the rich list of data show that the current net assets of Bezos behind Bill Gates 3 billion US dollars, ranked second, the Spanish giants, the European richest man Amanio Otega (Amancio Ortega) Ranked third.