QBTS vs AMZN
Side-by-side quantum stock comparison: market cap, share price, classification, and thesis.
Market cap, head to head
Stat-by-stat
| Metric | QBTS | AMZN |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Pure-play | Diversified |
| Segment | Hardware | Hardware + Software |
| Exchange | NYSE | NASDAQ |
| Country | CA | US |
| Market cap | $7.37B | $2.64T |
| Share price | $20.08 | $245.34 |
| Employees | 216 | 1,560,000 |
| Sector | Technology | Consumer Cyclical |
| Industry | Computer Hardware | Specialty Retail |
Quantum thesis
D-Wave is the only public pure-play on quantum annealing, an approach optimized for combinatorial-optimization problems rather than universal gate-based computation. The company also offers a gate-model roadmap and a Leap cloud service, but its differentiator is annealing hardware that is already in commercial deployment with customers in logistics and finance.
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Amazon runs Amazon Braket, a cloud service that brokers access to multiple third-party quantum processors, and has its own Center for Quantum Computing at Caltech working on error-suppressed cat-qubit hardware. The thesis is similar to Microsoft's: cloud aggregation today, an in-house hardware bet for tomorrow.
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