Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, left, speaking with Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell at an event in Seattle last year to announce new funding for affordable housing

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.

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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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.

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Shares in Vistra ( VST -1.57%) rose by an incredible 257.9% in 2024, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The company started the year as an integrated retail electricity and power generation company, and it ended the year by becoming one of the year's hottest artificial intelligence (AI) plays on the market.

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