Amazon close to catching Walmart in US sales

Amazon may be considerably behind Walmart when it comes to U.S. sales, but the e-commerce behemoth’s rapid pace of growth means that the company will be on par with Walmart in terms of domestic sales by 2020-2021, according to a JPMorgan Chase analyst.

Ticker Security Last Change Change %
AMZN AMAZON.COM INC. 210.71 +2.82 +1.36%
WMT WALMART INC. 92.64 +0.14 +0.15%

In 2017, Walmart had U.S. sales of $318.5 billion, up 3.5% year-over-year, whereas Amazon reported $186 billion in U.S. gross merchandise volume last year, up 31% year-over-year.

Amazon’s growth will come from, “the prime ecosystem; endless aisle driven by third-party seller expansion; outsized growth in large, unpenetrated categories, and removing friction and moving closer to customers.”

Walmart declined to comment to FOX Business about its growth.