It's almost the end of the decade, which makes it an apt time to reflect on which investment themes and stocks performed best over the last 10 years, and to ponder which ones might do best over the next 10.
The 2010s didn't just mark a calendar decade. It's been almost precisely a decade since the U.S. climbed out of the Great Recession -- an event that looms large in this article. As you are about to see, most of the companies to be discussed below were blessed with significantly favorable changes in their end markets over this period. Let's take a look at them, and see if they can give some clues as to what stocks to buy for the next decade.
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