Amazon remains dominant in e-commerce and cloud computing with Amazon Web Services.
"But what we've seen recently is a company simply pursuing too many ideas, with weaker ideas taking away the oxygen, capital, and most importantly focus from the truly disruptive initiatives that 'only Amazon can do.'"
Amazon shares are up 50% year to date, but they've underperformed top peers by about 52% over a five-year period, he said.
Amazon should "divest, seek outside funding, or trim spend" in health care and its nascent low Earth orbit satellite venture, called Project Kuiper, Shmulik wrote.
He pointed to Amazon's multiyear effort to break into health care, before abandoning efforts like its Care telehealth service, Halo health and fitness band, and a joint health-care venture called Haven.
Persons:
Bernstein, Andy Jassy, Mark Shmulik, —, Google —, Shmulik, Jeff Bezos, Jassy, Bezos, irrelevance
Organizations:
Amazon Web, Microsoft, Google, Amazon
Locations:
New York, Haven