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These Tech Stocks Will Make Me Rich

By Tim Beyers – Updated Apr 5, 2017 at 8:29PM

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I'm betting real money on these five stocks.

Welcome to week 10 of my stock-picking throwdown with Mr. Market. Let's get right to the numbers:

Company

Starting Price

Recent Price

Total Return

Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM)

$22.23

$14.71

(33.8%)

Harris & Harris

$6.22

$4.74

(23.8%)

IBM (NYSE:IBM)

$129.05

$90.78

(29.7%)

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL)

$22.75

$17.02

(25.2%)

Taiwan Semiconductor

$10.34

$7.74

(25.1%)

AVERAGE RETURN

--

--

(27.52%)

S&P 500 SPDR (AMEX:SPY)

$126.73

$93.21

(26.45%)

DIFFERENCE

--

--

(1.07%)

Source: Yahoo! Finance as of Oct. 17.

Mr. Market still has me down like everyone else but, lately, I've been making up ground. And I continue to be optimistic; 15 years of Foolishness through good and bad markets will do that.

Good results will, too. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) beat estimates in the most recent quarter, and Big Blue's results show that it's a stock market superhero. I've been a recent buyer of Big G and other tech issues because, like Foolish colleague Buck Hartzell, I believe now can be my finest hour as an investor.

That's how top investors generate superior returns -- like when David Gardner produced a decade of 20% returns by buying and holding the likes of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and eBay in the real-money Rule Breaker portfolio, or when Tom Gardner selected a "simpleton portfolio" to hold for a decade, with market-crushing results. I think these five tech stocks will produce plenty of durable gains.

This week's checkup
Now, let's move on to the rest of this week's update:

There's your checkup. See you back here on Friday for more tech stock talk.

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  • The good news? The panic might make you a better investor.
  • And tech stocks can make you enormously wealthy.

Amazon and eBay are Stock Advisor selections. Akamai, Intuitive Surgical, Google, and Harris & Harris are Rule Breakers recommendations. Try either of these market-beating services free for 30 days. There's no obligation to subscribe.

Fool contributor Tim Beyers is getting killed in CAPS right now. Thankfully, his real portfolio is doing better. Tim had positions in Akamai, Google and Google LEAPs, Harris & Harris, IBM, Oracle, and Taiwan Semiconductor at the time of publication. The Motley Fool owns shares of S&P 500 depository receipts and has a tech-tastic disclosure policy.

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Stocks Mentioned

Alphabet Inc. Stock Quote
Alphabet Inc.
GOOGL
$98.33 (-0.41%) $0.41
Amazon.com, Inc. Stock Quote
Amazon.com, Inc.
AMZN
$115.61 (1.61%) $1.83
International Business Machines Corporation Stock Quote
International Business Machines Corporation
IBM
$122.15 (-0.46%) $0.56
Oracle Corporation Stock Quote
Oracle Corporation
ORCL
$63.74 (-1.25%) $0.81
Akamai Technologies, Inc. Stock Quote
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
AKAM
$81.18 (0.09%) $0.07
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust Stock Quote
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
SPY
$364.64 (-0.90%) $-3.31

*Average returns of all recommendations since inception. Cost basis and return based on previous market day close.

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