By Geoffrey Seiler
Publication Date: 2026-01-01 22:30:00
Nvidia and Alphabet are among the companies best positioned to benefit from the next phase of the AI trend.
Artificial intelligence (AI) remains the biggest driving theme in the market today, and there is little reason to believe it won’t stay that way. The demand for both AI infrastructure and AI services appears to be insatiable, and it still looks like we are still in the early stages of this trend.
With that in mind, let’s look at the two best AI stocks to buy right now.
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1. Nvidia
Today’s change
(-0.56%)$-1.04
Current price
$186.50
Important data points
Market capitalization
$4.5 trillion
Daily range
$186.49 -$190.56
52 weeks range
$86.62 -$212.19
volume
120M
Avg. Vol
185M
Gross margin
70.05%
Dividend yield
0.02%
Nvidia (NVDA 0.56%) is the king of AI infrastructure and the company’s recent acquisitions have made it even stronger. It is best known for its graphics processing units (GPUs), which provide the computing power for most AI workloads. GPUs are particularly…