{"id":272608,"date":"2026-02-07T16:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272608\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:55:10","slug":"2-artificial-intelligence-stocks-you-can-buy-and-hold-for-the-next-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272608\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Artificial Intelligence Stocks You Can Buy and Hold for the Next Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be one of the driving themes of the stock market. However, there have been some recent AI stock<\/a> laggards that look like great stocks you can buy and hold for the next decade while they are on sale.<\/p>\n

Let’s look at two.<\/p>\n

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One of the first companies to push all in on AI, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) finds itself in a good position despite its lagging stock price. It’s also attractively valued, trading at a forward price-to-earnings (P\/E)<\/a> ratio of about 25 times based on fiscal 2026 analyst estimates (ending June 2026) and below 22.5 times fiscal 2027 estimates.<\/p>\n

The company was an early investor in OpenAI and owns an approximately 27% stake, along with privileged access to its intellectual property and AI models through 2032. The ChatGPT maker has also committed to spending $250 billion on computing power with Microsoft’s cloud computing arm, Azure. Azure has been Microsoft’s biggest growth driver, with revenue growing by 30% or more for 10 consecutive quarters, including 39% last quarter.<\/p>\n

With large commitments from both OpenAI and Anthropic, growth should remain strong over the next several years.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s software businesses have also been strong, led by continued adoption of its AI assistant copilots. Last quarter, Copilot seats soared 160%, while daily active users surged 10 times.<\/p>\n

Given its cloud computing growth and Copilot strength, Microsoft is a stock to buy and hold for the long term.<\/p>\n

Another top AI stock that has lagged over the past year that looks like a long-term buy is Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META).<\/p>\n

Despite the social media giant’s strong growth, the stock trades at a forward P\/E of just 23 times based on the 2026 analyst earnings consensus. That’s cheap for a stock that just grew its revenue by 22% in 2025 and expects its revenue growth to accelerate in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Meta has been investing heavily in AI, and it’s been paying off with increased user engagement and better ad conversions. This helped lead to an 18% increase in ad impressions last quarter and a 6% rise in ad prices, with total revenue growth of 24%.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the company forecast that its Q1 revenue would grow between 26% and 34%, as this momentum should continue.<\/p>\n

Meta Platforms is also just starting to introduce ads to its popular WhatsApp messaging platform, which has more than 3 billion users. While most are lower monetizing international users, this is still a huge opportunity. At the same time, it is still in the very early innings of building out and starting to monetize its newest social media platform, Threads.<\/p>\n

Between AI and these new ad opportunities, Meta is a stock to buy and hold for the long haul.<\/p>\n

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Geoffrey Seiler<\/a> has positions in Meta Platforms. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Meta Platforms and Microsoft. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2 Artificial Intelligence Stocks You Can Buy and Hold for the Next Decade<\/a> was originally published by The Motley Fool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be one of the driving themes of the stock market. However, there have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,33438,609,111,139,69,1817,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-272608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-meta-platforms","12":"tag-microsoft","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-stock-market","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}