Amazon vs. Microsoft: Which Stock Is a Better Buy for 2026 and Beyond? [Yahoo! Finance]
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One stock's valuation arguably looks more attractive. 10 stocks we like better than Amazon › Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) enter 2026 with the same headline tailwind: enterprises are rebuilding their tech stacks around cloud computing and generative AI (artificial intelligence) . Even more, they have similar headwinds: the capital-intensive nature of building out AI infrastructure -- and more AI demand than they can handle (or is that a tailwind?). Regardless, these are two great companies with stocks likely to perform well over the long haul, but one looks slightly more attractive than the other. If you think Amazon is primarily an e-commerce business, think again. The company's third-quarter net sales rose 13% year over year to $180.2 billion, while operating income came in at $17.4 billion -- and AWS (Amazon's cloud business, called Amazon Web Services) alone produced $11.4 billion of that operating income. Even more, this lucrative cloud business
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