Arguably, there's been no bigger bull in the artificial-intelligence (AI) rally than Wedbush's Dan Ives. Ives has been cheerleading the AI boom since shortly after the debut of ChatGPT. In February 2023,

Equity analyst Dan Ives has made a quite a few prescient calls in his career. In the last year alone, he predicted the Nasdaq Composite would hit 20,000, and he remained bullish on Palantir despite widespread skepticism.

From cloud computing to personal computers (PCs) to workplace productivity, Microsoft is well placed to capitalize on multiple AI-centric end markets. This tells us why CEO Satya Nadella remarked on the company's October 2024 earnings conference call that its "AI business is on track to surpass an annual revenue run rate of $10 billion next quarter,