Better Buy: Amazon vs. Google
Few stocks today attract the level of attention that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Google-parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) do.
That's understandable: They're nearly unavoidable. Amazon, as the nation's dominant online retailer, controls more retail spending in the U.S. than any other company aside from Walmart, and its massive cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services, helps the websites and businesses Americans use every day run successfully. And the Google search engine is so popular that it became a verb. That competitive advantage alone would be enough to hold investors' interest, even without considering Alphabet's many other popular websites and services, such as YouTube, Gmail, and the Chrome web browser.
Both companies also weigh in with market values close to $1 trillion, and they make up half of the famed quartet of FANG stocks that have provided a large fraction of the bull market's gains over the last decade.
Source Fool.com
