Many investors believe that stocks will revert to the mean: What goes up will come down, and what goes down will come up. This belief is profoundly untrue. Stocks that have dropped often continue to drop after you buy them. Buying a stock that has lost a great deal of money for its investors is highly risky. I've tried to do it multiple times and I've only succeeded once. That's why you should not rush in to buy the 10 worst stocks of 2019.
You might, however, want to buy stocks that were terrific winners last year. While writing an article about the top 10 stocks of 2019, I found some really interesting growth stocks, and my family bought shares of two of them: EverQuote (NASDAQ: EVER) and Axsome Therapeutics (NASDAQ: AXSM). EverQuote jumped a wild 725% in 2019. And that was nothing compared to the insane 3,578% return of Axsome Therapeutics. Here's why I think these amazing growth stories are just beginning.
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