I have a hypothetical for you. Say you had a Uncle that died and left you $50,000 in stock. Your choice between AAPL,AMZN, FB, GOOG, MSFT, or TSLA. The one stipulation is that you have to leave it alone for ten years. Which would you pick? Feel free to add to that list if you think there is a better long term prospect.
Dang -one heck of a question. There’ve been sooo many names that everyone thought were eternal and invulnerable -—General Motors, Pan Am, Woolworth, Atari, Lehman Brothers, they all went bankrupt leaving shareholders w/ nothing even while a decade earlier they were all favored darlings.
Last night the wife and I were watching the episode of “Downton Abby” where the Earl of Downton finds out what a mistake he’d made ten years before when he put the entire family fortune into one stock —it was a sure thing that failed while he was ignoring all the warning signs.
imho investments need to be checked regularly because the future’s never certain.