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Perth Now
10-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Bella Thorne recalls being 'obsessed' with Lil Wayne
Bella Thorne was "obsessed" with Lil Wayne during her school years. The 27-year-old actress fell in love with hip-hop music while she was starring in Shake It Up, the Disney sitcom that also featured Zendaya, and Bella even wrote a school essay about her admiration for Lil Wayne. Asked to recall the first single she ever downloaded, Bella told the Observer newspaper: "I was in Shake It Up when I started falling in love with hip-hop. I went on a binge and discovered BedRock by Young Money. I was so obsessed that I ended up writing an essay about why I admire Lil Wayne for school." Bella also revealed that she knows every word of 6 Foot 7 Foot, Wayne's 2010 single. She shared: "I became obsessed with 6 Foot 7 Foot by Lil Wayne featuring Cory Gunz because of the music video. The incredible visuals made it easy to memorise the lyrics, even though he's an incredibly fast rapper." Meanwhile, Bella previously claimed that all child stars should have access to a therapist. The actress has been through lots of ups and downs during her time in the spotlight, and Bella thinks other child stars would also benefit from seeing a therapist. She told People: "There should be real therapy mandated for children growing up and becoming famous overnight. "I think Chappell Roan just spoke about this too — how you'd be crazy not to go crazy because it's just too much at points in your life. "If the correct guardrails aren't in place — and even when they are in place — things can still go wrong." Bella wishes that she had access to a therapist during her younger years, but she feels it was "still taboo" at the time. The former Disney star said: "I definitely wouldn't give my younger self advice except, 'Go talk to somebody.' But when I grew up, therapy wasn't really ... That was still taboo. And even now, it's still quite taboo, where you're like, 'Guys, what world are we living in?' I think we all need therapy."
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Market Sell-Off: The Ultimate Growth Stock to Buy With $1,000 Right Now
The recent market sell-off created a number of solid entry points for equities. But one growth stock that should be on your list is Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), whose shares are down about 20% from their highs as of this writing. Let's look why Amazon is a great stock to scoop up on this market dip. Throughout its history, Amazon has invested heavily in its business. The company essentially built the world's largest warehouse and logistics network from scratch. This helped transform the company from an online book seller to the largest e-commerce marketplace in the world. Meanwhile, e-commerce is not even its largest business by profitability: That title goes to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing business. It created the infrastructure-as-a-service business model when it launched AWS back in 2006 after facing its own struggles scaling up its infrastructure as well as when trying to help affiliates build their platforms. Both of these businesses took a massive amount of capital expenditure (capex) to build out. Meanwhile, the company would often sacrifice short-term profits during heavy investment cycles. However, Amazon has never taken a short-term view of its business, and instead has been focused on the long term, not just quarterly profits. This attitude helped it grow to become one of the largest companies in the world. Today, the company is going through its next big investment phase with artificial intelligence (AI). AWS has been a nice beneficiary of AI, as Amazon has been at the forefront of helping customers build their AI models and applications. With its BedRock platform, it offers customers a number of leading foundation AI models that they can use as a starting point. The company has developed its own models, while it also offers popular models such as Meta Platforms' Llama, Anthropic's Claude, and DeepSeek's R1 model. Meanwhile, its SageMaker platform can help developers create and train more custom models and deploy them in a production-ready hosted environment. Amazon has also developed its own customer AI chips through its Annapurna Labs subsidiary to help with both AI training and inference. Custom AI chips tend to perform better at the very specific tasks for which they were designed and consume less energy, leading to cost savings. AWS has been seeing strong growth as a result of AI, with segment revenue growing 19% last quarter. However, the unit has been capacity constrained given how strong demand has been. As such, the company is once again investing big, announcing it will spend a whopping $100 billion in capex this year, largely to build more data center infrastructure to add capacity for AWS. Investors sometimes don't like Amazon's spending due to the impact it can have on its short-term results. Large amounts of capex spending increases depreciation costs. Capex spending is the initial upfront costs the company outlays and it does not directly impact earnings at the time it is spent. Instead the cost is spread out over an asset's useful life, which impacts earnings. For servers and networking equipment, Amazon currently depreciates the costs over six years. However, Amazon has historically come through periods of high capex spending as a better company. While much of the attention on Amazon at the moment is around AWS and its AI opportunity, the company remains the leader in e-commerce. This segment is still a solid grower, with its North American revenue up 10% in Q4 and international revenue increasing 8%. However, the company is growing operating income much faster than its revenue. North American operating income climbed 43% last quarter, while international operating income flipped from a loss of $419 million to a profit of $1.3 billion. This is due to the company using AI to become more efficient, as well as through high-margin ad sales. Amazon has turned to AI to help with such tasks as predicting inventory trends, finding better delivery routes, and using AI robots in its warehouse that can do such things as determine if an item is damaged before it is shipped. Meanwhile, Amazon has become the world's third-largest digital advertising company behind Meta and Alphabet's Google. Sponsored ads remains a fast-growing and high gross margin business. Last quarter, its advertising revenue grew by 18% to $17.3 billion, which is off a pretty large base. The recent drop in price has left Amazon trading at a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) of 34.5 times and a forward P/E of just over 25 times 2026 analyst estimates. Those metrics are some of the cheapest the stock has been at in quite awhile. With a big AI opportunity in front of it and an attractive valuation, now is a great time to buy Amazon stock. Before you buy stock in Amazon, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Amazon wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $720,291!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 838% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 164% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join . See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of March 18, 2025 Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Randi Zuckerberg, a former director of market development and spokeswoman for Facebook and sister to Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Geoffrey Seiler has positions in Alphabet. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta Platforms. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Market Sell-Off: The Ultimate Growth Stock to Buy With $1,000 Right Now was originally published by The Motley Fool
Globe and Mail
21-03-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Market Sell-Off: The Ultimate Growth Stock to Buy With $1,000 Right Now
The recent market sell-off created a number of solid entry points for equities. But one growth stock that should be on your list is Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), whose shares are down about 20% from their highs as of this writing. Let's look why Amazon is a great stock to scoop up on this market dip. A big spender Throughout its history, Amazon has invested heavily in its business. The company essentially built the world's largest warehouse and logistics network from scratch. This helped transform the company from an online book seller to the largest e-commerce marketplace in the world. Meanwhile, e-commerce is not even its largest business by profitability: That title goes to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing business. It created the infrastructure-as-a-service business model when it launched AWS back in 2006 after facing its own struggles scaling up its infrastructure as well as when trying to help affiliates build their platforms. Both of these businesses took a massive amount of capital expenditure (capex) to build out. Meanwhile, the company would often sacrifice short-term profits during heavy investment cycles. However, Amazon has never taken a short-term view of its business, and instead has been focused on the long term, not just quarterly profits. This attitude helped it grow to become one of the largest companies in the world. Today, the company is going through its next big investment phase with artificial intelligence (AI). AWS has been a nice beneficiary of AI, as Amazon has been at the forefront of helping customers build their AI models and applications. With its BedRock platform, it offers customers a number of leading foundation AI models that they can use as a starting point. The company has developed its own models, while it also offers popular models such as Meta Platforms ' Llama, Anthropic's Claude, and DeepSeek's R1 model. Meanwhile, its SageMaker platform can help developers create and train more custom models and deploy them in a production-ready hosted environment. Amazon has also developed its own customer AI chips through its Annapurna Labs subsidiary to help with both AI training and inference. Custom AI chips tend to perform better at the very specific tasks for which they were designed and consume less energy, leading to cost savings. AWS has been seeing strong growth as a result of AI, with segment revenue growing 19% last quarter. However, the unit has been capacity constrained given how strong demand has been. As such, the company is once again investing big, announcing it will spend a whopping $100 billion in capex this year, largely to build more data center infrastructure to add capacity for AWS. Investors sometimes don't like Amazon's spending due to the impact it can have on its short-term results. Large amounts of capex spending increases depreciation costs. Capex spending is the initial upfront costs the company outlays and it does not directly impact earnings at the time it is spent. Instead the cost is spread out over an asset's useful life, which impacts earnings. For servers and networking equipment, Amazon currently depreciates the costs over six years. However, Amazon has historically come through periods of high capex spending as a better company. An e-commerce giant While much of the attention on Amazon at the moment is around AWS and its AI opportunity, the company remains the leader in e-commerce. This segment is still a solid grower, with its North American revenue up 10% in Q4 and international revenue increasing 8%. However, the company is growing operating income much faster than its revenue. North American operating income climbed 43% last quarter, while international operating income flipped from a loss of $419 million to a profit of $1.3 billion. This is due to the company using AI to become more efficient, as well as through high-margin ad sales. Amazon has turned to AI to help with such tasks as predicting inventory trends, finding better delivery routes, and using AI robots in its warehouse that can do such things as determine if an item is damaged before it is shipped. Meanwhile, Amazon has become the world's third-largest digital advertising company behind Meta and Alphabet 's Google. Sponsored ads remains a fast-growing and high gross margin business. Last quarter, its advertising revenue grew by 18% to $17.3 billion, which is off a pretty large base. Attractive valuation The recent drop in price has left Amazon trading at a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) of 34.5 times and a forward P/E of just over 25 times 2026 analyst estimates. Those metrics are some of the cheapest the stock has been at in quite awhile. 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