The S 500 has climbed about 24% in 2023, hovering right around its all-time high. The Nasdaq Composite is up 44%, although the tech-heavy index still has some ground to cover before it starts carving out new all-time highs of its own.

This rally has made stocks generally more expensive, but there are still some good deals for investors looking for a bargain. Here's why investors should consider International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) and DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) as 2023 comes to a close.

A start-up building something from scratch is free to run all its workloads on public clouds and use whatever generative artificial intelligence (AI) service it wants. But for a large enterprise that's been around for decades or longer, things are more complicated.

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