5 Top Stocks to Buy in December

When all is said and done, 2020 will likely go down as the most tumultuous year since the 1960s. We had:

Here's the truly odd part: Despite all this news, it still paid to be a buy-and-hold investor. The S&P 500 is actually up around 13% for the year; the NASDAQ even more -- roughly 36%. Both are far larger than an average year's gain. While the headlines focus on the bad news, the stock market reflects the truth that things continue to progress bit by bit. This progress overwhelms the downturns.

In the spirit of investing in this incredible wealth maker in the year ahead, we asked five of our analysts what stocks they consider to be "buys" heading into the final month of the year. Read below to see why Sea Limited (NYSE: SE), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), CareTrust REIT (NASDAQ: CTRE), Tanger Factory Outlets (NYSE: SKT), and Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE: CLF) all made the cut.

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