Stocks can swing wildly from year to year, as investors were reminded in 2022. While investors can't control the markets, some stocks allow them to sleep well at night better than others.

(NASDAQ: MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) provide essential services people use every day, and new technologies and product development are only strengthening their long-term growth prospects. Here's why these two top stocks will continue winning for investors over the long term.

You would be hard-pressed to find a more solid investment than Microsoft. Windows and Office software are widely used in the consumer and enterprise spaces, and Microsoft has successfully migrated these products to subscription services in recent years, leading to robust growth in earnings that helped fuel the stock's performance.

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