An Update on ‘Other Income’ This Quarter
Amazon.com ($AMZN) reported its latest quarterly earnings last Friday, and of course the company reported gobs of revenue ($180.2 billion) and pretax income ($28.2 billion) because that’s what you do when you’re an e-commerce giant astride the globe. Then, as always, Calcbench squinted more closely at that $28.2 billion in pretax income. Only $17.4 billion of that number came from Amazon’s operating income; another $10.2 billion came from the ever-mysterious line item known as “Other” income. What was that about? So we dove into Amazon’s footnote disclosures, because you can do that in Calcbench thanks to our Tracing feature and our Disclosures & Footnotes Query page. Soon enough, we found this explanation on Page 30 of the 10-Q , tucked away in the Management Discussion & Analysis: The net gain of $10.2 billion in Q3 2025 and $14.1 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 is primarily from an upward adjustment for observable changes in price relating to our ...