Following our last blog, here are three more stocks to consider January 2025.
Walt Disney
The Disney+ streaming service, which has become a dominant force, benefited from the pandemic, but its theme park and film companies suffered. Five years after its debut, Disney+ has roughly 154 million members, and Hulu has 51 million more. Additionally, Disney’s streaming business recently turned a profit for the first time ever, and the market tolerates price hikes without affecting the number of subscribers.
The demand for Disney’s theme parks, films, and cruise lines has been robust despite customers suffering the effects of inflation. Due to initiatives that have increased in-park spending, Disney’s parks generate significantly more money per visitor than during comparable pre-COVID-19 epidemic periods. To ensure that its theme parks and cruise line remain full for the foreseeable future, the firm also declared that it will invest $60 billion over the next ten years.
Disney may be the safest stock on this list because of its impressive portfolio of intellectual rights (Star Wars, Marvel Cinematic Universe, ESPN, Pixar, etc.) and the cash-machine theme park industry. Additionally, as its more recent business divisions develop, it still has enormous potential for earnings development.
The Alphabet
While Alphabet isn’t precisely well-known, Google, its primary business, is. And the enormous internet search company with a significant market share is just one aspect of the company and its potential.
Google Services and Google Cloud are Google’s two primary divisions. YouTube, Google Play, Gmail, Android, Chrome, and Nest smart home gadgets are all examples of Google services. Most of the company’s revenue comes from advertising, but in-app purchases (Google Play) and hardware (Nest) also contribute significantly.
After Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, the company’s cloud services subsidiary, holds the third-largest market share. The market for cloud infrastructure is expected to triple by 2030, and Google Cloud has been increasing its market share in recent years. Therefore, even if it only accounts for 10% of the company’s current sales, it may be the main factor driving growth in the years to come.
Furthermore, Alphabet has an “other bets” division home to several exciting early-stage companies. Perhaps the most well-known is the self-driving car technology business Waymo. There is a lot of long-term promise even if none of the “other bets” businesses currently generate any sizable revenue.
Amazon
For most people, Amazon doesn’t need an elevator pitch. In the American e-commerce market, the corporation holds a commanding dominance. Additionally, its cloud platform, Amazon Web Services, leads the industry considerably over the other two major competitors, Alphabet and Microsoft (MSFT 1.14%).
But there’s more room for growth than you may imagine. E-commerce only makes up more than sixteen percent of all retail sales in the United States, so we’re still far from reaching its full potential. Although still in its infancy, the cloud market is predicted to grow by about four times to get a valuation of $2.3 trillion by 2032. In addition, Amazon has enormous potential in several other sectors, including grocery shops, healthcare, local markets, and more, making January 2025 a great opportunity.
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