Despite Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) being a behemoth $1.65 trillion company at the end of January, the fourth quarter results released on Feb. 1 were so impressive that the stock rose nearly 8% the next day, adding another $125 billion to its market cap.

For reference, that's like adding another business the size of Lowe's or UPS to its market cap. Despite this jump, I think it's just the beginning for Amazon's stock, as there was a lot of promising news in this report.

Amazon is slowly becoming a service-based company rather than an e-commerce store. Although revenues from its online stores grew at a respectable 9% pace to $70.5 billion, its service divisions fared much better.

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