Better Buy: Microsoft vs. Oracle

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) are both resilient tech stocks that rebounded from ugly market downturns over the past three decades. But over the past five years, Microsoft's stock nearly quadrupled and crushed Oracle's 20% gain.

Microsoft's rally was driven by the expansion of its higher-growth commercial cloud business, which reduced its dependence on its older software products. Oracle attempted a similar turnaround by pivoting from its legacy database software toward cloud services, but it grew at a slower pace than Microsoft.

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