This Analyst Explains Why He Sees Amazon's Cloud Unit Reaching A Valuation Of $3T

• Redburn Ltd analyst sees Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Web Services poised for a $3 trillion value, almost triple Amazon's present worth.

• Alex Haissl considers Amazon's cloud unit potent enough to split it from the massive, slower-growing online retail operation lest the latter fail to recover.

• He did not offer any timeline for reaching the $3 trillion mark.

• Haissl recommended a Buy on the stock with a $270 price target implying an upside of 150%.

• He saw AWS as better positioned than rivals run by Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) due to lower costs and better technology.

• AWS accounts for less than 20% of Amazon's revenue but will contribute all of its earnings this year, as per Haissl.

• AWS' revenue jumped 37% to $18.4 billion in the first quarter, even as the company's core e-commerce business saw a decline in sales.

• "There is no sugar-coating the weak performance" of online retail, he said, adding that "we do not think the business is structurally broken."

• Haissl rated Microsoft a Buy, Snowflake Inc (NYSE: SNOW) as Neutral, and has a Sell on MongoDB Inc (NASDAQ: MDB).

• Price Action: AMZN shares traded lower by 0.17% at $107.58 in the premarket on the last check Wednesday.

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