The Three Global Online Retail Titans: An Overview

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Amazon.com, Inc(AMZN), Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) and Mercadolibre Inc(MELI) are the top three online retailers in the world. Amazon dominates the US market though its increasingly under threat from competitors. From a seller of books the retailer has grown to be an advertising powerhouse and a leader in cloud services through its AWS division. Alibaba is the largest player in China and Argentina-based Mercadolibre is a growing leader in the Latin American market.

The following table gives a high-level overview of these three online titans:

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Source: Three Technology Titans Reshaping Retail, Franklin Templeton

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Knowledge is Power: Global Dividends, Smart Investor, Earnings Growth Edition

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Argentina is the top performer so far this year with the Merval Index up by 21%. Mexico has increased by a modest 5% despite hopes of great gains after AMLO came to power. Among the developed European markets, Germany is up by 8.5% while UK’s FTSE 100 has gained only 6.7% as the market is still caught up in the great British Brexit chaos. Unlike last year, China is leading major emerging markets with a gain of 12.4% and India is basically flat year-to-date.

Below are some interesting links for weekend reading:

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