Ten stocks for the next 10 years.

[Spidey]

The latest MoneySense issue picked 10 stocks to buy and hold for the next 10 years. Their holdings are: Boeing, Cemex, Ebay, Fairfax Financial, Leucadia National, JNJ, Microsoft, Service Corp, Transcanada, and Walmart.

Most of these, other than JNJ and TRP, wouldn't be my ten year picks. For one thing, I find the MoneySense portfolio to be too heavy towards US stocks. So would anyone be willing to provide your own choices of 10 stocks to hold for ten years?

[moneygardener]

How About 7:

TD Bank
Procter & Gamble
Walgreen or CVS
CP Rail
Canadian Oil Sands
General Electric
Rogers Communications

[Kinny]

My picks:

TD (any big Canadian banks seems good...e.g. BNS, RBC...)
CNR over CP
COS.UN.TO (however, holding an income trust in a non-registered account can make filing your taxes a headache!?!?!?)
TRP.TO (Pipeline = constant stream of money).

[FinancialJungle]

Exxon Mobile
United Tech
Johnson and Johnson
Novartis
McDonald's
Coke
CNR
Shaws Cable
A big Canadian bank
COS.un

[canadianbanks]

My list wouldn't include a single bank.

[moneymusing]

My list wouldn't include a single bank.

I lol'd at the irony

[CanadianCapitalist]

The latest MoneySense issue picked 10 stocks to buy and hold for the next 10 years. Their holdings are: Boeing, Cemex, Ebay, Fairfax Financial, Leucadia National, JNJ, Microsoft, Service Corp, Transcanada, and Walmart.

Most of these, other than JNJ and TRP, wouldn't be my ten year picks. For one thing, I find the MoneySense portfolio to be too heavy towards US stocks. So would anyone be willing to provide your own choices of 10 stocks to hold for ten years?

I'm surprised nobody has picked this one yet, but being a big Buffett fan, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) is my only pick for the next ten years.

[whitegoodman]

For the next 10 yrs. (10)

TRP, IPL.UN, RY, ECA, JNJ, MSFT, XOM, UL, SI, MCD

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[Max]

I'm with you on BRK.B, but what happens when Buffet "retires". If the succession plan sounds like it will keep the business philosophy alive, then I think BRK is a great buy right now.

[bpither]

I'm sticking to Canada ... for income (read dividends and the Fed/BC tax credit therein).
TD,RY,BNS,CNR,ENB,TRP,MRU,PWF,FTS,ECA

The banks are going to earn their way out - just like in the eighties and nineties when they were hugely exposed to Latin American debt/Olympia and York collapse. Yields were high then too ... National was the only bank to suspend/cut their dividend ... twice. From what I read it was worse for our banks than now, although the debt load of the average family is of course higher. The question is how many will actually default? Despite how some may beg to differ I was hearing a LOT more scare stories about dividend cuts, etc back in February than now. Hmmm ... I should have bought more!

CNR is a well diversified north american railway.

ENB and TRP: The price of oil/natural gas may go up and down but the rent goes on forever

MRU is back east and has a large portion of the low end grocery sector. They're loaded with cash.

PWF. OK maybe the parent is better (POW) ... and it is the largest shareholder of TOTAL oil through their subsidiary.

FTS: diversified NFLD company, owns Terasen gas in BC. raised their dividend every year for the past 36

ECA: well managed, pipelines,oil and natural gas

See how many of the above raised their dividend in the spring! If they can do that in this climate it bodes well for the future.