From Dell to Oracle, Legacy Tech Stocks Soar by Tapping Into AI Buzz

  • Legacy tech companies see gains from budding AI business
  • The stocks are much cheaper than Nvidia or Super Micro

Legacy companies better known for computers and servers than for new-fangled products are seeing stock values soar.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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This time, it actually is your dad’s tech rally.

Legacy companies better known for computers and servers than for new-fangled products are seeing stock values soar, fueled by encouraging signs in their nascent artificial-intelligence businesses. Shares of International Business Machines Corp., Oracle Corp. and Dell Technologies Inc. have risen 17-to 49% this year, equaling or outpacing the Bloomberg Magnificent 7 Index, which measures the performance of prominent tech stocks.