In This Election Year, These 4 Stocks Are My Highest-Conviction Holdings

Election years are always tricky for investors, but this year's brutal campaigning has put changes for everything from taxes to trade to tariffs on the table. Those are important underpinnings for the stock market, and each could look considerably different a year from now.

There are some companies, however, that should do well regardless of who's living in the White House come late January. Shareholders of Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Shopify (NYSE: SHOP), and PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) have less to worry about than other investors do regarding prospective shakeups of the current market landscape. Let's take a closer look at these four stocks.

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