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Microsoft's shares surge after a fiscal Q4 earnings beat. See why ETFs with significant MSFT exposure may offer diversified access to its AI and cloud growth.

The tech sector was leading today’s stock market bounce back, and chip stocks were a standout group. Tech was the top performing sector in the S&P 500 by a large margin. The State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF was up 4.9%, while the next best performing sectors saw less than 1% in gains.

Shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are up 9% in early Thursday trading, changing hands at $427 after the software giant delivered a fiscal fourth-quarter blowout and crossed a symbolic Azure milestone. The pop lifts the stock off Wednesday’s $390.54 close and pushes it back toward levels last seen in the spring. As of yesterday’s close, Microsoft ... Microsoft Surges 9% as Azure Tops $100B and Q4 Beat Lifts Most Price Targets

70% of S&P 500 tech stocks are down more than 20% from their all-time highs, and half of those are off at least 35%.

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Apple's $30B Broadcom chip deal highlights tech ETFs with exposure to both companies as investors seek diversified AI-related opportunities.

These two tech stocks look primed for long-term rallies.

Microsoft's steepest monthly drop since 2000 has investors eyeing tech ETFs as a diversified way to gain AI exposure while limiting single-stock risk.

Micron's blowout earnings lifted the entire semiconductor complex on Thursday.

US-Iran deal hopes may ease oil prices, curb inflation and lift risk appetite. Here are some ETFs that could win, and those that may lag.

AMD's stock has already more than doubled this year.

While Akamai Technologies has exceeded the technology sector over the past year, Wall Street analysts maintain a cautiously optimistic outlook on the stock’s prospects.

Lumentum Holdings has outperformed its sector peers recently, and analysts remain highly optimistic about the stock’s prospects.

Despite XLK's 33.2% YTD surge, five tech laggards including PLTR, TEAM, TOST, U, and ROP show growth potential on AI and business momentum.

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As Seagate Technology has significantly surpassed the technology sector over the past year, Wall Street analysts maintain a strongly optimistic outlook on the stock’s prospects.

As Teradyne has exceeded the technology sector over the past year, Wall Street analysts maintain a strongly optimistic outlook on the stock’s prospects.

Hewlett Packard has notably outperformed the Technology sector over the past year, and analysts are cautiously optimistic about the stock’s prospects.

After delivering stronger returns than the broader technology sector over the past year, ON Semiconductor continues to garner a moderately bullish outlook from analysts.

Datadog has outperformed the technology sector, and analysts remain highly optimistic about the stock’s outlook.

A mega-IPO is about to land in a market already running hot, and one Wall Street strategist sees it as the catalyst that forces investors to broaden their bets. Carol Schleif, Chief Market Strategist at BMO Wealth Management, told CNBC this week that the SpaceX IPO on Friday will pull capital out of the year’s ... Wall Street Strategist: SpaceX Will Force a Major Stock Market Repositioning. Buy These Stocks Instead.

Monolithic Power Systems has considerably outperformed its sector peers recently, and analysts remain highly optimistic about the stock’s prospects.

Investors’ focus, away from the much-hyped SpaceX IPO, will be the coming week’s consumer price index for May.

Or is the iShares U.S. Technology ETF a better technology ETF?

Tech ETFs with heavy exposure to NVDA gain attention, as the company enters the PC market with its RTX Spark AI superchip.

Analysts loved what they saw from these three AI stocks in May, placing them on MarketBeat's list of most upgraded names during the month.

Iran deal hopes, AI-fueled tech gains and Dell's upbeat outlook lifted stocks to record highs, while inflation fears and space-stock volatility persisted.

QUALCOMM has considerably outperformed its sector peers recently, yet analysts remain cautious about the stock’s prospects.

Cisco Systems has outperformed the Technology sector over the past year, and analysts are moderately optimistic about the stock’s prospects.

Texas Instruments has delivered stronger returns than the broader technology sector over the past year, and analysts remain moderately bullish on the stock's future performance.