Market data powered by FactSet and Web Financial Group. While this led to a similarly impressive 74% rise in sales, earnings are actually down during this span due to the elevated capital expenditures to support this growth and improve its operating efficiency. The company also has its targets set on other rare diseases. And it has a pipeline that holds the potential to give Vertex blockbuster drugs in additional indications beyond CF. There are several catalysts that should drive MongoDB stock higher in 2020. So, Walmart is positioned well to take advantage of the growth in the middle class in China. And when consumers are confident, they tend to shop more, which ought to be a boon for Visa. With the economy on sturdy ground and consumer confidence at a nearly 20-year high, Visa (NYSE:V) should also be on your list of stocks to buy in 2020. Partly due to a campaign by respected activist ValueAct Capital, the company’s board is more assertively tackling the company’s problems. Updated Aug 26, 2020 The S&P 500 Index is a market-capitalization-weighted index of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S. And there are plenty of great stocks to consider. Returns as of 10/05/2020. The digital payments … At $26.19, UTF carries a 7.1% current annualized yield and is trading very near its $26.61 net asset value. Driven by growing consumer demand for organic and all-natural food and dietary supplement options, specialty natural and organic grocery store retailer Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage has seen its store count climb by 76% over the past five years to 153. Buy up to $19.00 for a 4.00% annualized yield. Analyst Laura Martin likes the same growth drivers that I like. Amazon has another incredible growth opportunity in cloud computing. This CF franchise has enabled Vertex to grow rapidly over the last several years, but the biotech's growth story isn't over by any means. The global database market ... 2. Kohl’s is a cash machine, generating $10.81 per share in free cash flow in the past year. That’s four times the annual dividend payout of $2.68 per share. Revenue in the year ahead is expected to grow 1.8% to $19.3 billion, with earnings stagnant at $4.88 per share. The best stocks to buy for 2020 run the gamut from obscure names to large caps. Joe honed his investing skills as an analyst for Stock Advisor, Supernova, and Fool One. The explosion in connected television (CTV) is also dramatically expanding the number of available digital ad opportunities. Cumulative Growth of a $10,000 Investment in Stock Advisor, The 2 Best Stocks to Buy for 2020 @themotleyfool #stocks $AMZN $V, 3 Surefire Winners Robinhood Investors Can't Stop Buying, Forget Snowflake: 3 Buffett Stocks to Buy Instead, The 5 Fastest-Growing Stocks Warren Buffett Owns, Here's Who Bank and Fintech Investors Need to Start Watching, 3 Robinhood Stocks That Are No-Brainer Buys, Copyright, Trademark and Patent Information. He battle-tested his investment philosophy and strategies as portfolio manager of Tier 1, a market-crushing Motley Fool real-money portfolio that delivered 24.58% annualized returns during its existence. John Dobosz, Forbes Dividend Investor, Forbes Premium Income Report. The quarterly dividend has grown 20% over the past two years, and at $0.18 per share gives the stock a yield of 5.4%. After producing a stunning 10-fold gain since the 2009 financial crisis, ADS shares have fallen about 160% from their 2015 high on weak card volumes and a disappointing price from its Epsilon marketing platform divestiture this past April. And it makes Visa's stock a terrific buy today. Visa earns a fee on each transaction it processes, including every time someone makes a purchase with one of the 3.3 billion credit and debit cards on its network. She also highlighted the opportunity for the company to benefit from the U.S. election cycle, with an estimated $10 billion in political ad spending projected this year. But Walmart has been transforming. Vertex and partner CRISPR Therapeutics, for example, are evaluating a gene-editing therapy for treating rare blood diseases beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease in early stage clinical studies. That same year Walmart took a large stake in the number two online retailer in China, JD.com. Starting off the year by choosing stocks with tremendous long-term growth prospects does feel a little extra special, though. Most of ad buying and selling still isn't done programmatically, though. While many people would have you believe otherwise, a business's past performance is one of the best indicators of its future success. Market data powered by FactSet and Web Financial Group. With more than 1,100 stores, Menominee, Wisconsin-based Kohl’s is the largest U.S. department store chain. It's highly profitable with a growing cash stockpile. Kohl’s trades 20% below its five-year average multiples of earnings and cash flow, and 25% below its average price-sales ratio. Amazon also has a booming digital advertising business. When the tech bubble burst two decades ago the S&P 500 lost 9% in 2000, and went on to lose another 12% in 2001, and 22% in 2002. Mongo -- short for humongous -- is a pretty good way to sum up the potential for MongoDB (NASDAQ:MDB). That's the perfect storm for MongoDB. Negative news was everywhere, from an inverted yield curve and a manufacturing slowdown that seemingly signaled recession, to a trade war with China and an impeachment inquiry in Washington. The company bought Jet.com in 2016, an American online retailer. My point, of course, is that anytime is a great time to invest. Needham picked The Trade Desk as its top stock to buy for 2020. There are plenty of risks but also sizeable turnaround potential in ADS shares. Corning is the leading maker of glass and ceramic substrates found in liquid crystal displays, fiber-optic cables, automobiles and laboratory products. The Trade Desk. Sure, MongoDB has plenty of competition. Let's conquer your financial goals together...faster. It is widely regarded as … This is one of the most important lessons I learned working beside Motley Fool co-founders and master investors Tom and David Gardner. The Trade Desk's platform has won multiple awards as the best technology available for buying digital ads programmatically. Brandywine Realty Trust, which is based in Philadelphia, is one of the nation’s largest publicly traded REITs. Like e-commerce, this is a large and fast-growing market -- one that's expected to surpass $166 billion by 2024, according to research firm MarketsandMarkets, up from $73 billion in 2019. Through it all, however, the economy continued to grow, interest rates remained at historically low levels, and the Federal Reserve cut rates for the first time in ten years, providing a potent mix for market gains. That gives The Trade Desk a lot of room to run, especially considering that programmatic advertising is growing five times faster than the overall ad market. The most important is the company's Atlas database-as-a-service product. The digital payments giant operates the largest credit and debit card network in the world today. Vertex's latest CF drug, Trikafta, won U.S. approval in October 2019. Taesik Yoon, Forbes Investor, Forbes Special Situation Survey. Here are two businesses that have been winning for decades -- and that are likely to continue to deliver market-beating returns to investors in the year and decade ahead. It’s also a company that’s seen its stock lose more than 80% of its value so far this year as a result of much weaker-than-expected operating results driven by several headwinds. There are only four drugs approved in the U.S. that address the underlying genetic cause of CF. And the perception has been that Walmart was destined to become another rise and fall story of a dominant American retailer. Alliance Data Systems manages store-branded credit card programs. These are the best stocks in the S&P 500 as of October 2020. Here are three growth stocks that I think are top picks to buy in January (listed in alphabetical order). MongoDB uses a "freemium" model where customers can use a limited version of its product for free then migrate to the commercial version to get more features and support. Amazon has yet to find its way in China. Picking stocks for your portfolio during times like these can be difficult so I turned to some of Forbes’ top investment newsletter editors for potential opportunities in fundamentally sound growth stocks, dividend-payers and income-oriented ETFs.