{"id":444238,"date":"2022-12-10T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=444238"},"modified":"2022-12-10T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T14:12:30","slug":"better-buy-microsoft-vs-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/better-buy-microsoft-vs-amazon","title":{"rendered":"Better Buy: Microsoft vs. Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stock market sell-off in 2022 has brought down the share prices of some of the world&#8217;s most valuable companies. For instance, Microsoft &#8216;s (NASDAQ: MSFT) shares have tumbled 26% year to date, while Amazon &#8216;s (NASDAQ: AMZN) have fallen 48% in the same period. As leading companies in some of the most lucrative markets, Microsoft and Amazon are attractive investments amid a sell-off. Microsoft has a considerable market share in cloud computing, computer operating systems, and gaming. Meanwhile, Amazon is the leader in cloud computing and the champ in e-commerce. As a result, you might be looking at adding at least one of these companies to your portfolio, wondering which is the better buy. So without further ado, let&#8217;s take a look at each. Microsoft Despite a stock dip in 2022, Microsoft shares have risen 195% in the last five years. The company offers investors a diverse business home to top-performing brands such as Windows, Office, Xbox, and Azure,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stock market sell-off has made 2022 a perfect time to invest in tech titans like Microsoft and Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,36,1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-news","category-stocks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}