Market dominance, a superior net cash position, and aggressive growth characterize the best tech stocks in the market right now. In this Motley Fool Live excerpt from “Ask Us Anything”, recorded on April 12Fool.com contributors Demitri Kalogeropoulos, Jose Najarro and Nicholas Rossolillo explain why Microsoft (MSFT -4.18%), Alphabet (GOOGL -3.72%) (GOOG -3.72%)and Apple (AAPL -3.66%) are their best choices.

Demitri Kalogeropoulos: Which of these stocks do you want to own by 2032, Apple, Google, Alphabet or Microsoft? Jose, what do you think?

Jose Najarro: For me, out of those three, I would say, I think all of them will do pretty well over the next 10 years. My favorite among them was Microsoft, simply because it has all these different markets. As I mentioned, the business, the game and the consumer. The second, I think, would be Google, then Apple last, I think the advertising market will continue. Right now we only see it in the digital aspect but I think it could eventually move into any metaverse or whatever so I think Google will be able to have some marketing or solid digital advertising everywhere.

Demitri Kalogeropoulos: Nick, which one do you like?

Nicholas Rossolillo: Alphabet. Two reasons, I think if antitrust becomes an issue and Alphabet is broken up, I love individual companies, I’d like to own YouTube as a standalone stock, Google Cloud as a standalone stock, the industry advertising as support – stock alone, I think the three would be perfectly fine on their own. Also, to my knowledge, I think Alphabet has the deepest pockets around net cash, net of debt. Alphabet has $130 billion in cash and that blows up the net cash, net of debt position of all the other big tech stocks by a very wide margin. It’s pretty powerful there.

Demitri Kalogeropoulos: Yeah, that’s also an interesting thought experiment, because my initial answer is Microsoft because I can see more clearly. It’s just that they have an easy path, it seems that they dominate the market or continue to be excellent. They’ve got this business like Jose said, games, they’ve got these huge consumer-focused, enterprise-focused global cloud subscription services, all that stuff. They have everything you would want in a business, including this amazing brand.

But at the same time I like Google’s alphabet in that it could be the real question mark it could be like the wild card there because some of these bets they have I forget what they call this segment where they make these crazy capital bets on technology. But a lot of them are in various stages of really interesting stuff, and it’s aggressive business that way, which I think could be a game-changer in terms of whether any of the ones I know are also in autonomous driving technology. I think Waze is spinning, if I remember correctly. All kinds of great tech there. I think Google could be that surprise or Alphabet’s Google could be that surprise.

So what was the third? Yeah, Apple. I own Apple. I have owned it for 10 years. It’s almost like you never bet against Apple, I wouldn’t say. I agree with Jose, I think these three companies are going to beat the market in the next 10 years. Microsoft, I would say, is probably the safest bet. Personally, as I said, because of the visibility on this, but depending on what Apple and Google release over the next five years, that could change pretty quickly.