Amazon.com, Inc.
Industry Group: Retailing
Country/Region: United States of America
Identifier: NAS:AMZN
Amazon is a leading online retailer and one of the highest-grossing e-commerce aggregators, with $386 billion in net sales and approximately $578 billion in estimated physical/digital online gross merchandise volume in 2021. Retail-related revenue represents approximately 80% of the total, followed by Amazon Web Services' cloud computing, storage, database, and other offerings (10%-15%), advertising services (5%), and other. International segments constitute 25%-30% of Amazon's non-AWS sales, led by Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
ESG Risk Rating
Ranking
Industry Group (1st = lowest risk)
Retailing 498 out of 500
Universe
Global Universe 11038 out of 15561
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| Amazon.com, Inc. |
30.6
High
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498 out of 500 |
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Controversy Rating
Highest Controversy level that has impacted Amazon.com, Inc.'s ESG Risk Rating in the last three years
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