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If I could only choose 20 stocks - rayray - 11-11-2015 As always when I'm off I read and search the net, laundry, errands, basically waste time to avoid things I should be doing. Although, laundry is fairly important! Plus laundry is partly a waiting game so I can do other things to waste time Kill two birds with one stone. This morning I was reading an article in how many stocks to own as an individual investor and while it varies I chose the number 20 just because it seemed like a nice even number. Wells Fargo wfc Markel mkl Berkshire Hathaway brk.b IBM Qualcomm Qcom Apple aapl Johnson & Jonhnson jnj Proctor & Gamble pg Kimberly-Clarke kmb AT&T t Verizon vz General Electric ge Cummins cmi 3M mmm Pepsi pep Coca cola ko Altria mo Philip Morris pm Chevron cvx ExxonMobil xom Well, this is my list just off the top of my head, no real research performed. Sure, there are better choices but I think this would be a solid portfolio over the course of 30 years. If I sat down and really thought about it maybe about 5 to 8 would be different. It's a tough one because I'm more in the thought process of 20 stocks times 5. I put this in the off topic section because I'm not recommending any of these stocks, it's more of "If I could only..." You get the picture. What would your 20 stocks be? RE: If I could only choose 20 stocks - KenBob - 11-21-2015 Assuming I could get them at good valuations, here are my 20 stocks in no particular order: PG, JNJ, MMM, CSX, UNP, MAA, CPT, STAG, O, SO, VRT, T, VZ, ORI, IP, CSCO, INTC, DOW, EMR, NUE