Best Stock to Buy Now: Alphabet vs. Amazon | The Motley Fool

Best Stock to Buy Now: Alphabet vs. Amazon | The Motley Fool

Amazon and Alphabet saw huge growth in cloud computing during Q4.

Alphabet (GOOG 1.08%) (GOOGL 1.06%) and Amazon (AMZN 0.39%) are two of the largest companies in the world, and each is heavily investing in artificial intelligence (AI). However, each is also making a fair bit of money from it, too, thanks to their cloud computing services.

Several investors are bullish on both companies (including myself), but which is the better buy right now? Let’s take a look at what each business is doing and see the better stock to own over the next few years.

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AI is powering growth in cloud computing

Alphabet and Amazon are more similar than you may think. Each has a base business. For Amazon, it’s base business is its e-commerce platform; for Alphabet, it’s Google Search. But they also have several other business units on the side, including cloud computing and several other bets that could pay off big time.

Cloud computing is one of my top reasons to own both…

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