Amazon.com, Inc. operates within the Catalog and mail-order houses sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Amazon.com with three other miscellaneous retailers and wholesalers in North America: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (2019 sales of $56.01 billion of which 86% was Core commerce), Mitsubishi Corporation ($145.09 billion of which 31% was Living Essentials), and Jd.Com Inc ($83.61 billion ).

Sales Analysis. During the year ended December of 2019, sales at Amazon.com were $280.52 billion. This is an increase of 20.5% versus 2018, when the company's sales were $232.89 billion. This was the fifth consecutive year of sales increases at Amazon.com (and since 2014, sales have increased a total of 215%). Sales of Other saw an increase of 39.3% in 2019, from $10.11 billion to $14.09 billion. Not all segments of Amazon.com experienced an increase in sales in 2019: sales of Physical Stores fell 0.2% to $17.19 billion.