Spending on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure has been solid over the past couple of years, and that trend is expected to continue in 2025 as well, with market research firm IDC forecasting that the total outlay on AI could hit an impressive $227 billion in the new year.

Artificial intelligence continued to be a driving force behind stock market returns in 2024. Here are some of the stocks that have benefited the most.

Equity analyst Dan Ives has made a quite a few prescient calls in his career. In the last year alone, he predicted the Nasdaq Composite would hit 20,000, and he remained bullish on Palantir despite widespread skepticism.

True, Amazon's top line isn't growing as fast as Nvidia's. In the third quarter, Amazon's revenue increased 11% year over year to $158.9 billion. The company's net income of $15.3 billion was up 54.5% from the year-ago period.

Rather than focusing on quarterly earnings beats or temporary market sentiment, my investment strategy centers on identifying companies that can compound value over many years or even decades. While many view the current AI boom skeptically,

Explore the importance of diversification in your investment portfolio. I discuss two of my largest non-REIT dividend investments.

The S&P 500 (\^GSPC 1.26%) is home to 500 companies from 11 different sectors of the economy, making it the most diversified of the major U.S. stock market indexes. But the S&P is

The early 2024 enthusiasm for Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) had some real truth to it. Micron makes both DRAM memory and NAND flash storage, but DRAM makes up the majority of its revenue, at 73%. With the rise of artificial intelligence,

Despite finishing up more than 23% higher for the second year in a row, the S&P 500 has been weighed down by sell-offs amid thin volume trading as investors take profits before the new year. For many investors,

Artificial intelligence has been a hot market throughout 2024. AI fueled the surge in share price for companies such as Nvidia, which saw its stock rise nearly 180% over the past year through Dec. 31.

Dividend stocks provide income, even amid market sell-offs, and can hedge against inflation in 2025. Learn about 3 top dividend stocks for 2025.