Should You Avoid Amazon Stock, or Is This a Once-in-a-Decade Buying Opportunity?
Would you be shocked to learn that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock has underperformed the broad market indices over the past five years? That's right: Even though the mega-technology company keeps posting impressive growth figures, it is only up 23% cumulatively from five years ago. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has produced a total return of 88% over that same time frame. Amazon's stock has underperformed the index due to investor concerns about losing the race in artificial intelligence (AI), large capital ...