The stock of Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) closed at $1,186.10 on Thursday after climbing 0.32% for the day. The holiday season is almost at an end and many expect that Amazon has something in store. Over the course of this holiday season, records indicate that Amazon’s Echo Dot was the top seller.
The company is excited about the fact that it succeeded at selling them at such high numbers. In the meantime, Amazon’s newer Alexa-enabled devices, Echo Dot, Echo Spot and Echo Buttons were sold in large numbers as well, helping the company accumulate more revenue. Any customer has the choice to move ahead a make preorders since that is the best way to ensure that one isn’t left out.
Over the course of this Christmas season Amazon’s Alexa app moved higher to top the charts and this tells much regarding the influx of new customers who wish to set up their devices.
In total, the company revealed that it had managed to sell tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices around the globe and this figure was much higher that that recorded in the previous year.
The company’s spokesperson said, “Along with the Echo Dot, the Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote was another top-selling Amazon device and one of the best-selling products across all of Amazon. This holiday season, customers bought more than twice as many Amazon Fire TV Sticks than they did during last year’s holiday season.”
He went further to outline that indeed it was the biggest holiday season for Amazon since what happened has never been witnessed before. Customers around the globe flocked in to make their purchases at record levels. Amazon in its recent statement disclosed that about four million had become Prime members whereas another section kick-started their free trials.