Why Amazon Nay-Sayers Should Be Scared

Another quarter, another blowout earnings report for Amazon.com. The online retailer and technology juggernaut blew away analysts’ expectations on Thursday, posting $13.18 billion in revenue for the first three months of the year. The stock is up 13 percent. At this rate, the company will easily become the fastest retailer in history to cross $50 billion in sales for the year (it just missed in 2011). “The March quarterly results showed just enough upside in both revenues and margins to make the naysayers run for cover,” Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan wrote in a research note, sticking the shiv into the vociferous Amazon short-sellers.