Starting From Zero? These Are the 10 Stocks I'd Buy for the Long Term
I have a net worth of over $1,100,000 at age 35.
If I had to start over, I would buy and hold these 10 stocks forever:
1. $NVIDIA(NVDA)$
Nvidia sells the chips at the center of the AI buildout. Revenue grew 106% to $96.2B last quarter at a 75% gross margin, and data center revenue grew 117% to $89B. It guided to $108B for the quarter it reports on November 17 and returned $26B to shareholders in the last one.
2. $Broadcom(AVGO)$
Broadcom designs custom AI chips for hyperscalers and the networking that connects them. AI semiconductor revenue grew 221% to $16.7B last quarter, and it guided to $21.7B for the quarter it reports on December 9. It also converted 46% of revenue into free cash flow, which came to $13.7B in a single quarter.
3. $Amazon.com(AMZN)$
Amazon owns the largest cloud infrastructure business in the world, and it is speeding up. AWS revenue grew 39% to $46B last quarter with a $578B backlog. Operating income reached $28.1B for the quarter, and its advertising business generated $19.6B in revenue.
4. $Alphabet(GOOGL)$
Alphabet owns Search, YouTube, Google Cloud and Gemini. Revenue grew 25% to $127.6B last quarter, while Google Cloud grew 103% to $30.7B and more than tripled its operating income to $11.1B. The Gemini app has reached one billion users.
5. $Robinhood(HOOD)$
Robinhood is growing from a trading app into a full financial platform. Platform assets grew 19% to $396B, and customers added $71B in net deposits over the past 12 months. Gold subscribers grew 34% to 5.2M, and it now has 14 business lines that have each reached $100M or more in annualized revenue.
6. $Palantir(PLTR)$
Palantir's revenue grew 96% to $2.31B last quarter. U.S. commercial revenue grew 148% to $984M and passed U.S. government revenue for the first time. It runs a 62% adjusted operating margin and raised its 2026 guidance to about 91% revenue growth.
7. $SpaceX(SPCX)$
SpaceX went public in June. Revenue grew 161% to $14.6B last quarter, and it posted $4.4B of net income compared with a loss a year earlier. Starlink reached 13.6M consumer subscribers, up from 7.2M, and its AI segment, which includes Grok and its AI cloud business, grew 830% to $7.6B. It also completed its first orbital Starship flight.
8. $Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSM)$
TSMC manufactures the most advanced chips for companies like Nvidia and Apple. October revenue grew 59.7% from a year ago, and revenue for the first 10 months of 2026 is up 43.3%. It guided Q4 revenue to $52.3B to $54.3B, up from $46.7B in Q3.
9. $SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$
SoFi is building a one-stop digital bank. Record revenue grew 44% to $1.39B last quarter, members grew 35% to 17.1M, and net income grew 73% to $241M. It raised its 2026 revenue guidance and plans to reach 100 million products by 2030, up from 26.7M today.
10. $NEBIUS(NBIS)$
Nebius builds and rents out AI computing capacity. Revenue grew 454% to $582M in Q2, and it expects to end 2026 with $7B to $9B of annualized run-rate revenue, up from $3B in June. It signed a deal with Meta in March worth up to $27B. It reports Q3 on November 12.
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