5 Cloud Stocks to Help Your Portfolio Fly High

Cloud stocks are divided into three categories: the cloud owners, the cloud arms merchants, and the cloud users. The five Cloud Czars — Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL), Amazon.Com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) — all built clouds with cash flow from existing businesses. Apple and Facebook still run this way. Clouds are built on open source software and commodity hardware. They’re meant to give their biggest benefits to users. Companies built using the cloud can become huge, like…