Amazon and Microsoft saw some great surge in the year 2024, backed by the epic bull run at the US stock market, especially in the filed of technology. But, who will get the edge in 2025? Here' what we

Both Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) saw strong growth in their cloud-computing business units in 2024. While Microsoft's Azure saw the higher revenue growth, it was Amazon's stock that outperformed in 2024.

Microsoft Azure offers a suite of cloud computing services with a competitive pay-as-you-go pricing model. Some services can even be used for free.

Amazon.com said on Tuesday that its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), plans to invest about $11 billion to expand its infrastructure in Georgia to support cloud computing and AI technologies.

That said, 20% earnings growth is still impressive and is reason enough to own the stock, as long as it can be purchased at a fair price. Amazon currently trades at 36 times 2025 earnings, which is a bit pricey.

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Amazon and Microsoft are the world's two largest cloud-computing companies. Both companies are seeing strong growth in their clouding-computing units. Meanwhile, both companies also have dominant ...

Amazon and Microsoft, of course, are more than just their cloud businesses. Amazon is still the world's largest e-commerce and logistics company. It also owns the Prime Video streaming service.

Among Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Tesla, there's a phenomenal bargain hiding in plain sight, as well as a highflier that may be more than fully valued.

Microsoft stands out as a good value for 2025 and beyond. The stock isn't overpriced, sporting a 34.9 price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio compared to its 32.1 median P/E over the last decade. However, Microsoft is arguably a far stronger business today with better growth prospects than it was 10 years ago.

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