Investors should consider adding growth stocks to their portfolio to complement the blue chip stocks that dominate major market indexes. Tech companies with excellent growth prospects and strong products can deliver returns that outpace the market over the long term, but it's important to buy shares before they launch to expensive valuations. If you're making contributions to a Roth IRA for last year, these two stocks could be a great way to deploy $1,000 for long-term growth.

Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) provides cloud-based observability, application monitoring, and analytics solutions that are valuable resources to other technology companies. That's a lot of jargon for the unacquainted, but these are important functions to ensure the effective, efficient, and secure deployment of enterprise software. That's made Dynatrace an important piece of the digital transformation trend in recent years, and the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is keeping that momentum alive.

Dynatrace's products are regarded as among the best in class by rating organizations and customers.
Some analysts assign a narrow economic moat to the business, suggesting that its competitive position could be jeopardized by capable peers. That's something to consider for the long term, but its reputation is pristine for the moment, and that's unlikely to change in the short term.

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