Amazon.com and Overstock.com are the two companies that will be researched in detail. Their financials will be comb through and synopsis of their financial status will be developed. These two companies are within the same industry of selling discounted products online. This is a tough industry to do well in and competition is tough. The e-commerce marketplace is intensely and savagely competitive. Their financials tell the story and show how lean and mean …showed first 75 words of 1280 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1280 total…direction. There will be some needs for asset utilization for amazon.com, but in the end they foresee a bright future. Reference: Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN). (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2006, from Edgar Online Web site: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=AMZN&annual Overstock.com Inc. (OSTK). (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2006, from Edgar Online Web site: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=OSTK&annual <Tab/>