ZOOM
- video conferencing, San Jose, Calif.
- $664 million revenue growth May to June, driving Y/Y profits from $5.5 million to $186 million
AMAZON
- e-commerce, Seattle, Wash.
- $90 billion total revenue Q2, Amazon handled half of all online sales, 14 percent of all retail sales
BIG BOX
- brick and mortar, digital Target, Walmart, Home Depot
- 24% Y/Y revenue gain for Target; Walmart 97 percent spike in e-commerce Q2; Home Depot 9 percent increase in revenue.
PELOTON
- smart exercise equipment, New York, N.Y.
- 1 million members, doubled Y/Y. Revenue nearly tripled to $607 million in Q2.
VIDEO GAMES
- Xbox, PlayStation, Microsoft, Sony
- 200% Sony doubled sales in Q4. Activision Blizzard revenue rose 38 percent Q/Q.
GUNS
- guns, ammo national sales spike
- 95% increase in gun sales. Ammo sales 139 percent up Y/Y. Five million are first time gun buyers and sales were only slowed by inventory and background check backlog.
AIRLINES
- $1 billion. Delta, American, United losses in Q2. Southwest lost $915 million. All have made or plan to make major workforce cuts.
ACCOMMODATIONS
- Hotels, casinos
- $154 million Maryland-based Marriott losses Q2. It’s worldwide occupancy was down to 11 percent. One of many examples in the industry.
MOVIE THEATER
- AMC, largest U.S. chain revenue loss in Q2
- 99% Not only did theaters close during the worst quarter since 1920, but big studios also put major projects on hold.
RESTAURANTS
- Sizzler and Chuck E. Cheese filed bankruptcy; Olive Garden’s revenue dropped 43 percent.
- $165 billion lost restaurant sales in March through July with 8 million workers furloughed.
HOUSES OF WORSHIP and associated schools
- 150 U.S. Catholic schools shuttered due to financial pressures from C19. Even while, against the Constitution, church closings are causing financial, emotional and operational hardship.
- holds 87 percent of U.S. search engine market share nationally
- 2% decrease in Google ad sales in Q2. Google’s first ever fall as advertisers pull back on budgets.
