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Young investors looking for high returns might consider building a portfolio of around 50 individual stocks, despite greater volatility compared to investing in the S&P 500 index fund. The S&P 500 has delivered a compound annual return of 10.7% since 1957, whereas notable stocks like Amazon and Microsoft have significantly outperformed this with returns of 338,180% and 676,310%, respectively, since their IPOs.
Amazon’s revenue from its artificial intelligence-driven AWS platform rose by 37% in Q2 2026, totaling $148 billion in the last four quarters, with a potential future revenue of $1 trillion annually. Microsoft’s Azure also saw a 43% revenue increase in the same quarter and has a backlog of $678 billion in AI customer orders.
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