I don't need to run stock screens to unearth some of my favorite stock ideas right now. I can crack open by own portfolio. Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST), Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), and (NASDAQ: ROKU) are some of my largest personal investments.

I wouldn't own substantial stakes in them if I didn't believe in them, but this doesn't mean that you can't start small. Even if you have just $1,500 to put to work, I believe that you can confidently put your money to work in these three well-known but perhaps underappreciated names.  

There aren't too many all-weather retail stocks as resilient as Costco. The stock is up 10% over the past year, 50% over the past three years, and is trading nearly 150% higher than it was five years ago. The stock has hit a new all-time high every year for more than a decade.

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