If I Could Only Buy and Hold a Single Stock, This Would Be It

When one hears about stocks that turned a $5,000 investment into millions, it can make investors think of betting it all on one stock. Some stories of such gains are real. However, there is no way of reliably predicting such an outcome before the fact, and trying to bet everything on one name can often lead an investor to ruin.Instead of trying to "bet it all," investors may have a safe way to buy one stock and still come out ahead. While this stock will probably not turn a small investment into millions, it has a long track record of outsized returns in a growth industry and can deliver such results at a substantially lower risk.Image source: Getty Images.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool