4 Growth Stocks Down 20% or More to Buy Right Now

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Geoffrey Seiler, The Motley Fool

Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 3:14 PM 5 min read

Down conscionable implicit 20% from its highs, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is trading astatine 1 of its lowest valuations successful its past with a trailing price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of astir 34. That's contempt the beardown maturation the institution has shown, with gross expanding by 10% past twelvemonth portion its adjusted net per stock (EPS) soared 91%.

The company's unreality computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has been its biggest maturation driver, arsenic the institution helps customers make and deploy their ain artificial quality (AI) models and apps connected its level done the assistance of its Bedrock and SageMaker services. The institution has besides developed its ain customized AI chips to amended show and little costs.

The institution is embracing AI passim its business, which is helping amended ratio and little costs successful its logistics and warehouse services, portion driving income connected its e-commerce platform. Amazon is besides seeing beardown maturation from its high-margin sponsored advertisement business.

With the institution investing heavy successful AI, Amazon looks poised to beryllium a semipermanent AI winner.

Down astir 25% disconnected its highs, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) has seen bearish sentiment rise. Investors stay acrophobic that AI chatbots similar ChatGPT volition displace its dominance successful search. This could beryllium partially true, but Google Search remains amended astatine things specified arsenic gathering real-time information, sourcing materials, and discovering caller content.

And retrieve that Google Search traditionally serves ads connected lone astir 20% its hunt queries, truthful it has a large accidental to monetize much hunt and AI queries successful the future. Its highest-revenue hunt queries thin to beryllium for elemental words oregon phrases similar iPhone, "cheap flights," oregon "car insurance," not intricate questions you would inquire a chatbot.

The existent AI chatbot exemplary with nary ads, on with immoderate premium offerings charging a monthly fee, is not a sustainable concern model. Alphabet is the largest integer advertiser successful the world, and arsenic specified has a immense vantage fixed that it already has this immense two-way web successful spot and beardown advertisement targeting capabilities.

At the aforesaid time, the institution is astir a batch much than search. It besides owns Prime Video, 1 of the world's astir watched streaming services; the third-largest unreality computing platform, and the starring robotaxi concern successful the U.S. with Waymo. It is besides astatine the forefront of quantum computing with its Willow chip.