Amazon’s gross sales and revenue soared within the newest quarter as consumers turned to the net large to ship items to their properties within the pandemic.

Amazon stated Thursday that throughout the three months ending September 30 its gross sales grew 37% in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months, to $96.1 billion, and revenue elevated 197% to $6.three billion. The outcomes topped estimates from Wall Avenue analysts. They don’t embrace Amazon’s Prime Day occasion, which passed off October 13-14 this 12 months after being postponed over the summer time due to the pandemic.

Gross sales at on-line shops, which embrace merchandise like Alexa and objects Amazon sells on to clients on its web site, grew 38% final quarter. Amazon’s gross sales from third-party sellers that supply objects on its web site elevated 55%.

Income from Amazon Internet Companies, the corporate’s cloud computing enterprise and largest revenue driver, grew 29%, whereas its promoting enterprise grew 51%.

Amazon’s gross sales at bodily shops, together with Complete Meals, dropped 10%.

“There is no such thing as a doubt that Amazon’s newest outcomes present it continues to be a winner from disruption brought on by the pandemic,” Neil Saunders, analyst at GlobalData Retail, stated in a be aware to purchasers. However he famous that the enhance that the retailer bought earlier within the 12 months was an exception that was the results of lockdowns which have since been eased.

Amazon expects gross sales to be between $112 billion and $121 billion throughout its remaining quarter of the 12 months and working earnings to be between $1 billion and $4.5 billion, together with roughly $Four billion of prices associated to the coronavirus.

Amazon’s inventory was down practically 1% throughout after-hours buying and selling. Heading into Thursday, Amazon’s inventory had rallied greater than 70% this 12 months.

Amazon has strengthened its place throughout the pandemic, drawing current Prime members to its platform extra continuously and including new subscribers.

Amazon’s core Prime consumers skew larger earnings, which make them much less vulnerable to job losses stemming from the pandemic and a brand new stimulus invoice not being handed in Congress, analysts say. Prime consumers are spending much less on journey and different leisure actions than they did earlier than the pandemic and have shifted their spending to electronics, kitchenware and different objects.

Amazon’s progress comes at a time when the corporate is — like its fellow tech corporations Fb, Google and Apple — below scrutiny from lawmakers over issues about its market energy. The Home Judiciary Committee launched a report earlier this month that discovered that “Amazon has engaged in in depth anticompetitive conduct in its therapy of third-party sellers” and different ways that stifle competitors. (Amazon has denied wrongdoing.)