More Squawk From Jim Cramer: Amazon.com (AMZN) Website Outage 'High-Quality Problem'

Amazon.com (AMZN) might have trouble reaching Citi's $1 billion target for Prime Day sales given checkout problems, Jim Cramer says.
By Rachel Graf ,

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Amazon.com (AMZN) - Get Report are falling 0.76% to $748.02 in morning trading on Tuesday after the e-commerce giant tweeted that customers are experiencing checkout problems during its Prime Day promotion.

"We don't want that [site] going down," TheStreet's Jim Cramer said on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" this morning. "That's not going to make the $1 billion Citi target."

Citigroup estimated that Amazon.com would generate $1 billion in sales during this year's one-day shopping event exclusively for Prime members. Amazon.com brought in between $630 million and $660 million in Prime Day sales last year, the firm said.

People nonetheless remain doubtful of Amazon.com because they don't realize that the company is taking share in other categories, Cramer pointed out.

"When was the last time you bought toilet paper in the store?" he asked his "Squawk on the Street" co-anchors.

Customers have stopped buying items from the supermarket because they now have Amazon.com's Dash Buttons that enable users to reorder household items with the push of a button, Cramer noted.

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Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates the stock as a "buy" with a ratings score of B-.

Amazon.com's strengths such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, robust revenue growth, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

You can view the full analysis from the report here: AMZN

TheStreet Ratings objectively rated this stock according to its "risk-adjusted" total return prospect over a 12-month investment horizon. Not based on the news in any given day, the rating may differ from Jim Cramer's view or that of this article's author. 

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