After a brief hiatus, the market’s bigger-picture pullback appears to be back underway, once again led by the names that were once its most popular picks.

As veteran investors will still attest, however, this weakness is ultimately a buying opportunity.

With that as the backdrop, here’s a closer look at three deeply discounted growth stocks that long-term investors should consider buying on this short-term dip. In no particular order…

1. UiPath

It’s no real secret why UiPath (PATH +1.86%) shares are down more than 40% from their early December peak. Most artificial intelligence (AI) stocks started struggling around that time as the hype surrounding them began running headlong into fiscal reality, and UiPath is very much an AI stock. It could be considered one of the industry’s overlooked pioneers, in fact.

And that’s precisely what makes this ticker’s pullback a buy. While rivals have tried to replicate and mimic what UiPath does, this company’s initial vision of automated workflow is the one that still makes the most intuitive sense for end users.

Simply put, UiPath allows an organization’s employees to automate computer work that would otherwise be done manually at a much slower pace. Data backups, paying invoices (and flagging unusual ones), turning an overwhelming number of documents into manageable and actionable insights, and automatically optimizing inventory levels — including forecasting future demand — are all in this company’s technical wheelhouse.

And the marketplace increasingly likes what it does, making and keeping this company viable. UiPath turned $481 million worth of revenue into non-GAAP operating income of $150 million during the final quarter of last year, up 14% and 12% year over year (respectively) to extend long-established growth trends. This ticker’s recent pullback is mostly about the broader industrywide sell-off. Now priced at less than 14 times this year’s projected per-share profits, this particular stock’s sell-off is likely nearer its bottom than not.

2. Remitly Global

Given all the digital capabilities at the world’s disposal in this modern era, one would think it’s relatively easy to send money across any border. But that’s not the case. It’s still a surprisingly complicated process.

Remitly Global (RELY +1.46%) is making it easier, though. While the industry is still highly regulated to prevent unauthorized or impermissible money transfers, Remitly’s platform — which functions similarly to PayPal, Cash App, and Zelle — handles the technical logistics of cross-border transfers including any necessary currency exchange. If and when they’re not allowed, the platform simply doesn’t facilitate the transaction. Consumers and enterprises conducting cross-border business are welcome to use the app.

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And they are using it, in droves. The app’s active customer count improved 19% year over year to 9.3 million during the final quarter of last year, driving a 35% increase in the total amount of money transferred. Total revenue grew 26% to $442 million, allowing the company to swing from a loss of $5.7 million in the same quarter a year earlier to $41.2 million this time around. Analysts are looking for comparable growth for at least the next couple of years, too. The 41% pullback from last February’s peak certainly looks like a gift.

3. Meta Platforms

Last but not least, buy Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META 0.82%) while its shares are down 28% from August’s high.

Today’s Change

(-0.82%) $-4.76

Current Price

$574.47

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$1.5T

Day’s Range

$559.78 – $578.56

52wk Range

$479.80 – $796.25

Volume

965K

Avg Vol

16M

Gross Margin

82.00%

Dividend Yield

0.37%

It’s not difficult to figure out what’s happened here. Although it’s not a massively important artificial intelligence player, AI does feature prominently in Meta’s growth plans. For instance, its artificial intelligence-powered chatbot Meta AI is accessible directly from Facebook members’ primary feeds, preventing them from moving offsite to an alternative platform like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini (an Alphabet product). The company’s also using AI to improve the performance of its own flagship advertising business. This much exposure to the artificial intelligence revolution has understandably caused investors to lump Meta in with most other companies that are also investing heavily in AI.

This generalization, however, ignores an important, nuanced difference between Meta and other companies building artificial intelligence businesses. That is, whereas most of the other names in the industry are building stand-alone products that rely on broad demand for artificial intelligence hardware, software, and platforms (think Qualcomm‘s AI-capable Snapdragon mobile processor, CoreWeave‘s expensive cloud computing platform built specifically for training/learning, and Broadcom‘s recent deep focus on developing high-speed networking solutions specifically for AI data centers), Meta still remains the planet’s preferred social networking platform. It’s simply — and wisely — just using artificial intelligence as a means of bolstering this proven business.

It’s working, too. The company’s fourth-quarter 2025 revenue growth accelerated to a pace of 24%, thanks to steady user growth and a 16% year-over-year improvement in average revenue per user, mirroring similar growth in the total number of ad impressions delivered during the three-month stretch.

The point is, rather than looking for stocks of companies that can develop artificial intelligence solutions, perhaps investors should be looking for companies that can actually do something constructive with them. That’s Meta to be sure.

Futures tied to the Dow Jones industrial average fell 284 points, or 0.61%. S&P 500 futures were down 0.57%, and Nasdaq futures lost 0.56%.

U.S. oil futures rose 1.9% to $113.69 a barrel, and Brent crude climbed 1.8% to $110.99. The national average gasoline price reached $4.11 a gallon on Sunday, according to AAA, up from $2.98 before the war.

In Europe, which depends heavily on Mideast refiners for jet fuel, shortages forced Italy to limit supplies at several airports. That’s after several countries in Asia have already started rationing energy.

The U.S. dollar was up 0.07% against the euro and up 0.16% against the yen. The yield on the 10-year Treasury was flat at 4.345%.

The conflict has entered its sixth week, reaching the end of Trump’s earlier timeline for the war to last four to six weeks.

But Tehran shows no signs of relinquishing its grip over the Strait of Hormuz, even as it allows a growing trickle of tankers through, while Trump appeared to be emboldened by a daring rescue of a U.S. airman shot down over Iran.

In a social media post on Sunday, he threatened to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges if the strait isn’t open by Tuesday, then demanded, “Open the F—in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

That appeared to push his deadline back from Monday, which was already delayed from an earlier deadline a week and a half ago.

Trump also told ABC News that if Iran doesn’t make a deal, “their whole country is gone.” He then told Fox News, “If they don’t make a deal and fast, I’m considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil,”

And in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he said that if Iran keeps the strait closed, “they’re going to lose every power plant and every other plant they have in the whole country.”

Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iran parliament, responded in kind. “Your reckless moves are dragging the United States into a living HELL for every single family, and our whole region is going to burn because you insist on following Netanyahu’s commands,” he wrote on social media.

“Make no mistake: You won’t gain anything through war crimes. The only real solution is respecting the rights of the Iranian people and ending this dangerous game.”

Meanwhile, more than 2,000 Marines are in the Middle East, with thousands more troops on the way—as well as a third aircraft carrier.

Trump could deploy them to seize Kharg Island, from which 90% of Iran’s oil is exported, or other small islands near the Strait of Hormuz to weaken Iran’s grip on the narrow waterway that’s critical to the global oil trade.

For now, it’s unclear if the successful rescue of the F-15 airman after a harrowing operation makes a future ground assault more or less likely.

“On the one hand, the costs from this episode (four, as many as seven aircraft) may suggest the risks to such operations are simply too great to contemplate,” Gregory Brew, a Eurasia Group analyst focusing on oil and Iran, posted on X. “On the other hand, the admin may perceive the successful retrieval following operations inside Iranian territory as proof that such operations are feasible.”