Microsoft Corp (MSFT)

For AI exposure. Not a buy now, as it's near all-time highs. Wait for pullback. Huge installed base, so it's easy to add AI characteristics into products and then increase subscription prices. High margins, big cashflow to continue to invest in R&D.

They need no introduction. Not only a key AI play, MSFT also boasts a growing cloud business in Azure (they reiterated 2024 guidance), Office 365, LinkedIn and particularly Copilot, which is an AI add-on to Office. It is amazing, priced at $30/monthly to 78 million licensed Office users who could potentially buy it. So, revenue upside is meaningful.

Their AI platform is hailed as one of the most productive programs of our time. They will make a lot more money from AI, otherwise why would the MSFT CEO hire OpenAI founder/CEO as soon as that board fired him?

Record high in share price. Trend line is positive. Long term momentum is good. If 15% above 200 day average, might be over bought. Current strength in share price warrants caution on buying. 

Last year was an opportunity to buy one of the world's great companies at a low multiple. Strong franchises. AI has pushed shares to near all-time highs. Keeps growing market share. Core holding. Not a screaming buy today. He'd buy on dips for new clients.

Shares swooned after announcing AI in the spring, but AI development and adoption needed a few months to get going. Now, we see the revenues coming from Copilot AI. Shares will continue to rise.

They have a firm AI strategy that will make big money. Look at their Copilot, just released, that almost everyone will use.

Owns and likes both, but MSFT gets the nod if you forced him to choose, because of its AI potential.

A lot of the trend right now is in AI, and MSFT will be the winner. They already have the platform, just increase the price and that's good for margins. Strong user-installed base that AI can leapfrog off of.

GOOG is more of an advertising company, and ads are coming back. Net margins of 25%, good growth. GOOG will have more work to do on the AI front. Given the recent price drop, there are worse companies to buy.

They reported this week. He added more shares. He reiterates that MSFT is the #1 play in AI.

They crushed it across the board recently. Has recommended it before and does so now. They beat top and bottom.

Their recent report just crushed it in tone and delivery as they use open AI inside the company. Copilot AI will be huge.

Delivered stellar numbers last night, amid many bad earnings reported by other companies today. Shares rallied 3% today. Maybe this is a nation unto itself.

Is down 6% since its last quarter, when they crushed the top and bottom lines. Boasts double-digit growth for years.

Hard to figure out who the runaway winner will be. Ton of innovation going on. AI is likely to be as disruptive as the internet. Need to own these names. Good growth at 16%, but trades at 29x. Better names now are META, GOOG, AMZN, or NVDA.