1) Alphabet (GOOGL)
Google is a search engine and internet company founded in 1998. It’s the world’s most popular search engine and has many products including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, and Android. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University. They wanted to make a better web search experience for everyone by organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible. Alphabet had an operating income of $4.4 billion in 2016, with $75.8 billion in revenue. Alphabet owns over 20 subsidiaries such as Nest Labs (smart thermostat), Fiber (high-speed Internet service), Verily (life sciences), Jigsaw (cybersecurity), and DeepMind Technologies Ltd., which is artificial intelligence research lab that was acquired on January 2017.
2) Apple (AAPL)
With a market cap of $2.5 trillion, the odds are that you have at least one Apple product in your home or office. But with new innovations like the iPhone X, Apple Watch Series 3 and AirPods wireless headphones on the horizon, it's worth considering adding more AAPL shares to your portfolio. The company has had a long run of innovation and growth and is unlikely to slow down anytime soon. AAPL stock currently trades for about $170 per share and pays an annual dividend of 2.4%. Apple also offers financing through its store.
If you're looking for another top-tier technology stock, Facebook (FB) is a good choice as well.
3) Amazon (AMZN)
Amazon is one of the most popular e-commerce companies in the world. With a wide range of products and services, Amazon competes with other leading retailers such as Walmart, Target and eBay. Amazon has used its massive retail space to sell more than just books, CDs and DVDs; it's now an online marketplace for everything from household goods to clothing. The company is also heavily invested in cloud computing infrastructure and runs some of the world's most popular web services including Twitch, IMDb and Alexa Internet.
4) Facebook (FB)
1. Visa Inc. (V) is the world's leading global payments company, and the first truly global payments network, serving consumers, financial institutions, governments and multinational companies. The Company provides a variety of services that enable its customers to use electronic funds for commerce and banking around the world.
5) Microsoft (MSFT)
Microsoft is a company that has been consistently profitable and stable over the past decade. It continues to dominate in the desktop operating system market, with its Windows OS accounting for over 90% of the market share. Microsoft also owns the Xbox gaming console and Skype, which accounts for more than half of the world's online voice traffic. The company's revenue has grown by double digits in every quarter since 2009, and it pays a dividend yielding 3%.
6) Salesforce (CRM)
Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system. The company offers four editions of the software, enabling companies of all sizes, in all industries, and using various technologies to use Salesforce as their customer management system. Salesforce also provides Pardot, a marketing automation platform; Quip, an enterprise collaboration platform; and Chatter.
The company has more than 240,000 customers with operations in 190 countries including more than 80% of the Fortune 100 companies.
7) Nvidia (NVDA)
NVDA has been one of the best-performing stocks in the S&P 500 so far this year, with its share price up 47%. The company has benefited from increased demand for video-game consoles and graphics cards, and is now well positioned to take advantage of autonomous driving technology.
The chipmaker continues to advance autonomous driving technology with the release last month of new software tools for developers. The announcement was made at GTC China 2017, an event held in Shanghai by Nvidia's Chinese partner Horizon Robotics.
8) Visa (V)
Visa (V) is a global payment processing company that operates in over 200 countries and territories. The company provides credit card services, debit card services, and digital payments. Visa offers online services for consumers, businesses, financial institutions, governments, and enterprises. Shares of Visa have been trading up recently as the general market has been performing well. Investors may want to consider buying this stock now as it may be undervalued.
9) Mastercard (MA)
Mastercard is a leading global payments company. The company provides consumers, businesses and governments with innovative ways to spend and store their money securely and conveniently. Mastercard also offers programs for merchants. The Company offers credit, debit, connected commerce and other payment solutions that help make transactions safe and fast for everyone, everywhere.
Mastercard's stock has risen 16% over the last 12 months, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by more than two times over the same period of time.
10) JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
JPMorgan Chase is a multinational banking and financial services holding company. The company provides a variety of banking and financial services for consumers, businesses, governments and institutions. JPMorgan Chase operates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Canada and more than 70 countries around the world. Shares of JPM are down 2% so far this year but up 9% over the past five years as it continues to take market share from other banks with its large global footprint.company
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