3 Stocks to Buy and Hold for 100 Years

3 Stocks to Buy and Hold for 100 Years

Companies that are able to survive for a century or more require certain special attributes. After all, they have to weather not only changing consumer tastes over time but also the ups and downs of the market, their industries, and the economy as a whole. There's good reason why businesses like these aren't all that common.

We asked three Motley Fool investors, and they came up with Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), and Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) as stocks that you would do well to buy today because they'll likely still be standing 100 years from now. Let's find out why.

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