4 Surefire Stocks to Buy in the Next Bear Market

Investors often fear bear markets. But as much as we enjoy bull markets, we also need to embrace the bumpy periods too as part and parcel of how the markets work. We can learn to appreciate these periods by having a solidly diversified portfolio of stocks that work for us in different investing environments -- and by using bear markets to identify companies with strong, long-term opportunities that should soar when the bull comes back.

I want to recommend four stocks to buy in the next bear market. Two of them can help shield your portfolio when times are rough, and two of them are trading at high valuations and can become better values if prices fall. The first two are Realty Income (NYSE: O) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST), and the second two are Square (NYSE: SQ) and Shopify (NYSE: SHOP).

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