2 Magnificent Growth Stocks Up 40% and 93% This Year to Buy and Hold for the Long Haul

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares have popped by about 40% since the start of 2023. The tech giant's domination of some of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative industries, from e-commerce to cloud computing, not to mention its growing footprint in other fast-growing spaces like entertainment, healthcare, groceries, and more, has given it a moat that few other companies have been able to penetrate at scale. It's also important to understand that no company is wholly impervious to the operating environment in which it exists.