5 Best UK Stocks to Buy Now

4. Vodafone Group Plc (LSE: VOD.L)   

Vodafone Group Plc (LSE: VOD.L) is a Berkshire-based telecommunications firm. It was founded in 1982 and is ranked fourth on our list of 10 best UK stocks to buy now. The company has diversified business in recent years to include an array of investments in the Internet of Things universe. Vodafone stock has returned more than 41% to investors over the past year. The company has close to 700 million mobile, broadband, and television customers scattered around the globe. 

Vodafone Group Plc (LSE: VOD.L) recently inked a deal with technology giant Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) for the development of a cloud-based storage and analytics platform that would hold Vodafone data. Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is one of the biggest companies in the world and at the end of the fourth quarter of 2020, 179 hedge funds in the database of Insider Monkey held stakes worth $21.9 billion in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), up from 162 in the preceding quarter worth $14.7 billion.