We recently published a list of the 12 Best Long-Term Growth Stocks to Buy Now. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER) stands against other best long-term growth stocks to buy right now.
Expectations Regarding Fed’s Rate Cuts in 2025
Released on Friday, February 7, the January jobs report showed resilience in the labor market with higher-than-expected wage growth. December’s monthly job gains also showed an upward revision, highlighting that the US labor market ended 2024 in a better position than previously reported. Economists are thus of the opinion that the Federal Reserve may not cut rates in the near future. Consequently, this increases pressure on inflation data to cool down before the central bank considers slashing borrowing costs.
On January 30, Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital, appeared on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” to discuss the stock market and the Fed’s decision to leave rates unchanged. Sticking to the opinion he gave in December, Gundlach was of the view that 2025 would bring a maximum of two rate cuts by the Fed. He reiterated that he was not predicting two cuts but that two would be the maximum number attained in 2025, keeping one rate cut as the base case for the year. The unemployment rate went up for several consecutive months before ticking down, which Gundlach thinks is a matter of deep solace for the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.
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What Does the 2025 Outlook for the Stock Market Look Like?
On February 10, Mary Ann Bartels, Sanctuary Wealth’s chief investment strategist, appeared on CNBC to discuss the 2025 outlook for the stock market. She showed bullish sentiment towards the market, particularly due to strong earnings growth. Comparing the current environment to previous periods of innovation, such as the 1920s and the 1990s, Bartels highlighted the role of robotics, AI, and Web3 in driving long-term growth in the present.
She noted that companies today fund investments with cash and equity rather than excessive leverage, unlike the 1990s. Her estimates showed that the S&P could reach 7,200 to 7,400 this year and 10,000 to 13,000 by the decade’s end, as she expects the bull market to extend through 2029 to 2030.
Our Methodology
We sifted through stock screeners, online rankings, and ETFs to compile a list of 20 growth stocks. We checked their 5-year revenue growth (at least above 15%) and then selected the top 12 most popular stocks among elite hedge funds as of fiscal Q3 2024. We sourced the hedge fund sentiment data from Insider Monkey’s database. The list is sorted in ascending order of hedge fund sentiment.
Why do we care about what hedge funds do? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter’s strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 275% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 150 percentage points (see more details here).
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Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER)
5-Year Revenue Growth: 27.60%
Number of Hedge Funds: 136
Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER) is a multinational transportation company that offers ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight services. The company is increasingly employing AI to strengthen its autonomous vehicles and rider safety. It announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia in early 2025 to boost the integration of AI technology into self-driving cars.
Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER) plans to develop AI models using Nvidia’s Cosmos platform and DGX cloud. The company is also making moves in the robotaxi and autonomous vehicles sector. It announced that customers in Austin, Texas would be able to order an autonomous vehicle through its platform in March as part of a collaboration with Alphabet’s Waymo. The company ranks sixth on our list of the 12 best long-term growth stocks to buy now.
Ithaka US Growth Strategy stated the following regarding Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER) in its Q4 2024 investor letter:
“Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER) employs a marketplace-based technology platform used to match drivers and their vehicles with individuals, products, and packages moving from point A to point B. The company offers its ~6M independent contractors (drivers) access to its 130M monthly active users (riders), providing both parties real-time access to logistics services. Uber’s business consists of three segments: Mobility, Delivery, and Freight. These businesses combined for ~$140B in annual bookings across 9.5B trips in 2023. Uber’s stock suffered from the perceived risks autonomous vehicles would pose to the company’s base business. This fear intensified when Donald Trump won the 2024 election, as investors anticipated that one of Trump’s key allies, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, would leverage his burgeoning influence to accelerate the implementation of national autonomous driving regulations.”
Overall, UBER ranks sixth on our list of best long-term growth stocks to buy right now. While we acknowledge the potential of PG, our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than UBER but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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