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AMZN forward model
Horizon
Consolidated fair value $635.64 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $777M 0% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution −$1.20B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The build is the moat. AWS holds its build rate instead of fading it, Trainium takes enough of the inference workload to hold revenue per megawatt flat rather than falling, and the margin keeps widening the way it did this quarter - 650 basis points in a year while absorbing the heaviest capex in the company's history. Retail margins keep pace as advertising compounds at mid-twenties growth on a base that costs almost nothing to serve, and Leo turns the constellation into a second subscription business with AWS-like economics once it is overhead.

Zoox

Basis quarter$0
Final quarter$777M
Final revenue mix0%

The purpose-built robotaxi Amazon has been running in Las Vegas and San Francisco, with no steering wheel and no disclosed revenue. It is the smallest line in the model and the one with the widest range of outcomes: a fleet business whose revenue is set by how many vehicles are on the road and how many hours a day each of them earns.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $0 Reported
2025 Q4 $0 Reported
2026 Q1 $0 Reported
2026 Q2 $0 Reported
Robotaxi ridesFleet operations and depot services
Capacity energised 1500 vehicles at the basis quarter 1,500 vehicles on the road when the line opens in 2027 Q2. Amazon discloses no fleet size; this is an estimate.
Capacity added 500 vehicles/qtr changing +6.0% per quarter 500 vehicles a quarter, growing 6% - a city-by-city rollout from a purpose-built factory, not a retrofit ramp.
Utilisation 40% gliding toward 65% 40% of the fleet earning. Charging, cleaning, depot time and weather take the rest of the day.
Revenue per vehicles $40000/qtr drifting −1.0% per quarter $40,000 per vehicle a quarter, about $440 of bookings a day. A busy vehicle in a dense city.
Zoox

Latest: $777M (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $0.00
2025Q2 $0.00
2025Q3 $0.00
2025Q4 $0.00
2026Q1 $0.00
2026Q2 $0.00
2026Q3E $0.00
2026Q4E $0.00
2027Q1E $0.00
2027Q2E $40M
2027Q3E $55M
2027Q4E $72M
2028Q1E $93M
2028Q2E $116M
2028Q3E $143M
2028Q4E $173M
2029Q1E $207M
2029Q2E $246M
2029Q3E $290M
2029Q4E $339M
2030Q1E $393M
2030Q2E $454M
2030Q3E $523M
2030Q4E $599M
2031Q1E $683M
2031Q2E $777M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • No reported history and no carved-out base: Amazon has never disclosed Zoox revenue, ridership or fleet size, and the early rides have been free. The line is held at zero across every historical quarter and takes three quarters to open, so the first revenue counted is 2027 Q2.
  • Modelled as vehicles x utilisation x revenue per vehicle rather than as a growth rate, because a robotaxi fleet has no revenue to grow from - the only question worth asking is how fast vehicles reach the road and how hard each one works once there.
  • $40,000 per vehicle per quarter is roughly $440 of gross bookings a day, which is a busy vehicle in a dense city and a generous one anywhere else. Utilisation of 40% gliding to 65% is the share of the fleet actually earning: depot time, charging, cleaning and weather take the rest.
  • The fleet reaches roughly 15,000 vehicles by 2031 in the base case, which is a city-by-city rollout rather than a national one, and produces well under $2B a year. Zoox is an option on Amazon, not a driver of it, and at this scale it moves the fair value by less than a dollar a share.
  • The margin starts at -220% and glides to 30%: vehicles, depots, remote operations and safety staff are all real costs against almost no revenue at the start, and the terminal margin is deliberately below AWS's because a fleet wears out and has to be replaced.
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