3 Stocks You Can Buy and Hold for the Next Decade

If you're looking at some exciting companies and are thinking of buying them, be sure you're planning to hang on for a bunch of years. If you're hoping to own them for a year or so, expecting a big gain in that period, you stand a good chance of being disappointed, since stocks can be very volatile, moving in unexpected directions over short periods. Remember that many great fortunes that have been built via stocks have been amassed over decades, not overnight.

Here, then, are three companies for your consideration. Each of them appears to have a long runway of growth ahead.

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