Investors can profit from some of these, but there are different markets that are stronger. Let’s look at three of them and see how they can be great investing options.

1. Fintech

The fintech market has digital-payment platforms and online banking services, along with cryptocurrency platforms. This market keeps expanding as people switch from cash to shop online more, and depend less and less on traditional banks.

Businesses are also beginning to see the value of streamlining their payments, integrating tools into mobile apps, and taking advantage of analytics to track their customers’ purchases. Allied Market Research predicts the mobile payment market to expand globally at a compound annual growth (CAGR) of 30.1% between last year and 2027 to reach $12.06 trillion.

Companies that might profit from this explosion are PayPal (PYPL), which has its popular online-payment platform that reaches 377 million accounts, and Square (SQ), which handles payments for merchants and allows consumers to make peer-to-peer payments through its app.

2. AI

The AI market is usually thought of as being only “smart robots” but its scope is actually much larger. AI services are now being used to calculate data for advertising platforms, processing large amounts of info to aid companies in making choices.

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They can also power chatbots to help a company’s customer-support, or help optimize a company’s supply chain by finding inefficiencies, and increasing safety standards by finding hazards.

The global AI industry increased to $39.9 billion in 2019, as reported by Grand View Research, but might go even further with a CAGR of 42.2% through now and 2027.

My top stocks in this sector include NVIDIA (NVDA), which gives high-end GPUs for completing AI tasks, and Palantir (PLTR), which finds and processes data for federal agencies and corporate customers.

3. VR and AR

The virtual reality and augmented reality sectors are still small but they have both expanded and have great growth potential.

VR devices, which put users inside digital environments, can be used by more than just video games, simulations and even socialization. Facebook‘s Oculus system has a first-mover’s advantage in this sector, and its headsets might expand Facebook’s ecosystem beyond mobile devices.

AR devices, which push digital images onto real-world environments, can be used like heads-up displays for particular professions.

One company worth keeping an eye on in this market is Vuzix (VUZI), which mostly sells AR smartglasses to corporate customers. It is a small company but they have an early-mover’s advantage in the AR market, and might keep expanding as more people and companies get into AR glasses.

The global AR and VR markets might expand at a CAGR of 42.9% between 2020 and 2030, according to reports by Research and Markets, and become a $1.27 trillion sector. That is a bullish prediction suggesting that VR and AR devices might become the next big platforms after smartphones.

Don’t be so fast to embrace that saying. While there is data to support the theory that stocks don’t do well after May and October, some terrible years can change the average return during this time, to look downward. During a normal, bullish market, the next months could be as progressive as any other. And if you have the right stocks, it could be even more profitable.

So here are three of those types of stocks. Ones with great growth opportunities and are ripe for buying this month.

1. Entegris

For the first time in seven quarters, last month, Entegris’ (ENTG) earnings fell lower than analysts’ consensus estimates. Its Q1 top line was short from expectations too, though it grew by 24% y/y. The company’s Q2 predictions for earnings per share was between $0.77 and $0.82 on revenue of around $530 or $545 million is pretty much what analysts modeled, and well higher from last year’s numbers of $0.60 per share and sales at $448.4 million. But investors could not get over the earnings miss, maybe wondering if the company is being harmed by the chip shortage that is working against other companies.

It is a worry, however, that ignores the true dynamic of the low supply of semiconductors.

The shortage is connected to incredible global demand. This means Entegris is doing the same business it was doing before covid harmed supply lines. The firm is actually getting greater demand as users of its components try to offset the shortage by optimizing their yields and improving their current technologies; that is where an advanced process solutions provider like this one can change everything.

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Despite last quarter’s not so great results, analysts say the company is on track to grow its revenue by almost 17% this year, with profits increasing by almost 25%.

2. Align Technology

Align Technology (ALGN) might not be a well-known name yet, but there is a good probability someone you know is using its product. It’s among the top companies making invisible braces. You may know it as Invisalign.

The coronavirus forced large problems onto the company as dentists contributed to the virus-reduction effort by only performing emergency procedures. Align Technology’s Invisalign requires a trip to a dentist to get your teeth scanned; it does not offer scanning through a “SmileShop” or through an at-home dental kit as competitors do.

Customers do seem to like having their dentists do this kind of work, however. With the COVID pandemic pulling back and dental practices getting back toward normal work, Align’s Q1 revenue was not just higher by 62%, but hit a record-breaking $895 million. Analysts say this growth level will continue for the rest of 2021, and while sales growth should eventually decrease in pace, the market is still seeking double-digit percentage growth through 2022. Profit growth could be even better.

The stock price is down by 7% from last week’s high, but that sell-off seems to be more like profit-taking than a reason to worry.

3. The Trade Desk

Finally, lets talk about The Trade Desk (TTD) and why you should add it to your list of stocks to invest in before May ends.

The Trade Desk gives the advertising industry a cloud-based solution that optimizes ad-buying. More than just buying traditional advertising, it uses consumer data and campaign management tools to guarantee that advertisers get the most bang for their buck.

Not only has covid not been an issue for the company, it has even accelerated The Trade Desk’s success. Last year, its revenue increased by 26%, almost doubling per-share profits. Analysts anticipate sales growth of 35% for 2021, with a rebounding economy helping out. While these analysts are also predicting an earnings lull in 2021, understand that this company has not failed to beat earnings estimates since 2017. The current outlook seems to underestimate what could happen.

However, the stock is having relatively bad performance since it reached a high in December. While most of the 28% price pullback since then can be said to be about profit-taking, it’s not like The Trade Desk is not doing great.