3 Top Stocks You Can Buy and Hold for the Next Decade

Holding a stock for 10 years may sound crazy to some, but your job as an investor is exponentially easier if you can commit to holding this long. Consider that you can pick a great stock and have a well-researched and accurate investment thesis. But if you're only planning to hold for a year and then the market crashes, it's likely your fundamentally sound stock pick will go down with everything else.

According to data compiled by The Balance, the worst return for any rolling 10-year period ever for the S&P 500 was negative 3%. Therefore, if history is any indication, it's extremely likely stocks will be generally higher 10 years from now. Any potential crashes between now and then will likely be wiped out by bull markets.

Of course, a lot can happen in 10 years. Therefore, it's important to only pick the strongest companies when looking that far out. Here are three stocks I believe are well positioned for the coming decade.

Source Fool.com