Will Amazon Disrupt UPS and Uber or Will Uber Disrupt Amazon, FedEx, and UPS?
Place your bets guys. I think Amazon with its tremendous advantage will damage Uber. Uber will scew up and whatever customers they can get will soon drop them. Gotta say long term XPO has done a tremendous job of steering clear of this by strategically picking their verticals. UPS and FedEx will be hurt and forced to look toward XPO and the different logistics verticals we now hold. This may have been our real strategy all along.
Having said that long, long term there isn't much to stop Amazon, Google or the likes from ruling the world except the implemation of pertinent quota laws. We need to sell between long term and long, long term imo
Saturday, October 24, 2015 10:10 AM
Third Party Logistics: Will Amazon Disrupt UPS and Uber or Will Uber Disrupt Amazon, FedEx, and UPS?
Last week Uber rolled out on-demand delivery in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Is that the wave of the future?
Or Is Amazon About to Disrupt Delivery Services by Taking UPS and FedEx Head On?
Colin Sebastian at RW Baird published a note yesterday highlighting the opportunity for Amazon to begin to offer third-party logistics services in a similar way that it offers Web Services. The analyst believes that this could be a $5 billion opportunity for Amazon even if it only captures 1% marketshare in the various segments of the industry.
Transportation and logistics is the next massive market opportunity for Amazon but rather than developing it as another internal business unit, this may be spun out.
Amazon currently operates 167 distribution facilities around the world, totaling more than 100 million sq. ft., and continues to grow.
In North America, Amazon operates 92 facilities (including local sortation centers).
Amazon’s third-party Marketplace is a good example which leverages the scale of Amazon’s e-commerce traffic and supporting fulfillment infrastructure.
Another Massive Market for Amazon
Colin Sebastian says Yet Another Massive Market on the Horizon
Amazon is not finished disrupting industries.
Just as Amazon leverages infrastructure behind the core retail business to grow AWS and Marketplace, there is evidence the company may extend its increasingly complex and technology-centric logistics and delivery platform as a third-party offering.
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Market Caps
Uber - Not Public - Valued at $70 Billion after raising still more cash.
FedEx - FDX - $45 Billion - PE: 42.02
United Parcel Service - UPS - $95 billion - PE: 24.9
Amazon - AMZN - $280 billion - PE (Negative earnings)
Any of those valuations seem ridiculous?
For more on Uber, please see UberRUSH: Uber's On-Demand Delivery Service Rolls Out in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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