When you start investing, there are certain things to look for as you start to construct a stock portfolio. For one thing, you should focus on businesses that are well-established and have excellent track records of growth (and room to keep growing). It's also a good idea to look for businesses that are easy to understand, and that aren't terribly recession prone.

With that in mind, here are five of my favorite stocks that are great buys right now for beginning and experienced investors alike.

It's difficult to find another business like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) that is dominant in not one but two massive industries. Amazon is well known as the largest retailer in North America because of its e-commerce marketplace, and its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business has a sizable lead in cloud computing services.

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