3 Heirloom Stocks to Hold Forever

Most of us have known folks who had the good fortune to inherit great stocks. Companies fall by the wayside all the time, but some have endured for years and years -- and continue to reward their investors even today.

Those are heirloom stocks, the kind we'd all be very happy to inherit. But what are the heirloom stocks of the future, the stocks we'd like to leave our beloved descendants? We asked three Foolish investors to each tell us about a stock they see as having true heirloom potential. Here's why they like The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK). 

Keith Noonan (The Walt Disney Company): Take a moment to think about how much life has changed since the 1920s. Charles Lindbergh made the first solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, and, today, we're looking at the dawn of commercial space travel. You can purchase detailed records of your ancestry through a variety of competitors that store and transmit the information to the handheld computing device of your choice -- thanks to the revolutionary connectivity platform known as "the internet." Yet, even with all of the radical shifts that have taken place and the generations of people that have come and gone, Mickey Mouse still stands as one of the world's most valuable intellectual properties.

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Source: Fool.com