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3 Core Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Leaders to Buy with $1,000 Right Now and Hold for the Next 20 Years

Finding stocks you can comfortably buy and hold for two decades isn't easy.

3 Core Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Leaders to Buy with $1,000 Right Now and Hold for the Next 20 Years

Published July 3, 2026 · Category: Finance

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If you've got $1,000 available to invest for the long term right now, I'd suggest looking at three stocks that are about as close to set-it-and-forget-it as it gets: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META). In my view, they are highly likely to outperform the market over a two-decade stretch. That's a bold statement, but given the market positions that my core artificial intelligence (AI) stocks hold, I'm confident in this projection.

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Microsoft has been a dominant force in the tech industry for decades already, so expecting it to maintain that strength for another 20 years isn't far-fetched. It's taking the right steps to stay relevant, including building AI solutions into its business productivity software and investing heavily in cloud computing infrastructure, which will power AI workloads for as long as there are AI workloads to power.

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