I got my hands on a Kiplinger Magazine from 1990 the other day, and one article was a list of the “Top 10 Picks For The Next Decade” by an investment club that had monthly meetings in Texas. The ten picks were: Gillette (now Procter & Gamble), Philip Morris (now Altria, Philip Morris International, Kraft, and Mondelez), Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, Disney, Pepsi, Amoco (which is now BP), Johnson & Johnson, Disney, and their wild international pick was Nestle.
All of those companies still exist today, and are much more profitable now than they were then. Some people heavily discount information like this because there was probably some investment club in Florida that predicted Enron and Woolworth as its long-term holdings.
The question is: Can you predict companies that will still be making sizable profits ten years from now? Of course you can.
All you have to do is look around you.… Read the rest of this article!
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