Growth stocks are often a tale of two outcomes. Either they underperform expectations and leave investors in the red, or they thrive and make their investors a lot of money along the way. It's generally seen as the typical risk-reward trade-off.

You can't be sure how a stock will perform, but you can tell when a company has the resources and market opportunities to provide good value over time. If you have $1,000 available to invest, here are three companies to consider splitting it between and sitting back and letting time do its thing.

As the world's fifth most valuable company with a market cap of just under $1.4 trillion, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been one of the stock market's quintessential growth stocks of the past decade or so. Remarkably, there's still a lot more growth to go.

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