Buying a stock with the intention of never selling it, or perhaps only selling it in a few decades, requires a level of conviction that most investments simply don't warrant. It's not enough to believe that a business is doing well today, or that its management team right now is doing an effective job.

What's necessary is a rock-solid business model that's already withstood different turns of the market and different economic regimes. Here are three stocks that I'm comfortable buying today and holding until retirement at the very earliest.

While I don't own Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX), I'd be willing to buy it right now and then hold it forever if I had capital to spare.

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Source Fool.com