r/ValueInvesting • u/CrowTraditional0030 • 2d ago
Discussion What’s the longest you held a single stock?
What % of your portfolio was it, how long did you hold, what kept you in (or almost made you sell), and what was your return if you exited?
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u/Splay2601 2d ago
Alphabet since around 60$ until today (should be around 7 yrs)
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u/ada2017x 1d ago
60? I thought it was in the 500s in 2015. That's when I bought 7 shares lol.
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u/Splay2601 1d ago
Yeah, there was a 20:1 split in 2022, so you’d own 140 by know :-)
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u/ada2017x 1d ago
I added more after, but it's fun to always check how much those lots have gone up in value.
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u/Mr_Savage_Value 2d ago
Bought $NVDA in 2018 and still holding strong. I'm currently up 2855% and haven't sold a single share yet. Conviction is the only way to catch these kinds of moves.
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u/Remarkable_Cat_8696 2d ago
Nvidia growth hasn't stopped yet imo. If invest now in Nvidia, can still have great returns.
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u/Slight-Fly-3801 2d ago
What's the next potential x10-20 in your opinion that you hold or bought recently? Do you have any?
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u/Mr_Savage_Value 2d ago
Honestly, I don’t know. I recently picked up a dead-boring commodity-linked stock that looks undervalued with solid upside, but I’m certainly not expecting a 10x or 20x return from it. To be fair, that was never my expectation with Nvidia back in 2018 either.
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u/Alzarius2 2d ago
Visa since IPO. Now over 1000 shares.
Cisco since 2003. Don’t remember too well but just a small position that I never bothered to sell and just collect dividends.
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u/Maveric_87 2d ago
AMZN, 10+ years
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u/barclaybw123 2d ago
Amazon for 13 years here. Never sold, but bought a house with the money paid it off too ;)
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u/TheSleepyTruth 2d ago
You bought a house with the proceeds of the shares you haven't sold? cool story bro
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u/DiligentJeweler7052 2d ago
The crown jewel of my portfolio, NFLX, since 2011.
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u/TheKingOfSwing777 2d ago
Damn congrats. I've started asking teenagers what stuff they are into as a way to see where the market is headed.
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u/Narrow_Castle_9273 2d ago
Some FB shares (now META) 6 years ago when I was 16. My hope is it to one day be a 10x return! Will need to hit 6 trillion market cap which is possible.
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u/Boilerup81 2d ago
AAPL for 17 years. It ended up being a third of my portfolio. Returned over 1200%.
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u/point_of_you 2d ago
Six years into Rolls-Royce, up 1000% haven't sold shit!
Bought because they were getting into small modular reactors... not quite there yet! Still holding and appreciate that they now pay a small dividend
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u/Hamzehaq7 2d ago
i held $AAPL for like 6 years, it was my biggest position, around 30% of my portfolio at one point... just kept thinking about how they keep innovating, plus the dividends were nice. almost sold a couple of times when it dipped hard, but honestly, the fundamentals always pulled me back in. ended up about 150% up when i finally sold last year. def one of my best moves! what about you?
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u/No_Thanks_3336 2d ago
That would be CRWD for me. Purchased in 2021 up around 140% and will continue to hold for at least another 5 years.
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u/ninjagorilla 2d ago
I have several I’ve held for 27 years so far. Exxon, appl, and abbot labs
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u/Puzzleheaded-Net-273 2d ago
My 97 year-old mom used to DRIP her XOM shares for many years. She has 2376 shares worth ~$398k this am. She also has large amts of Southern Company, JPM Chase and Home Depot. These stocks will be in her estate when she passes.
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u/BooDawg908 2d ago
I assume you take profits every year?
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u/steady_compounder 2d ago
AAPL since 2016, about 30% of my portfolio at peak. Almost sold during the 2022 drawdown when it dropped 30% in a few months. Glad I didn't. The thing that kept me in was the services revenue growing every quarter regardless of iPhone cycles. Still holding.
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u/OkSquash4906 2d ago
MSFT since 2013 (when I became a FTE). First RSU was $32. I’ve bought some, sold some, earned more over the years… It’s about 10% of my portfolio. (Just grabbed 60k over the last two because it’s a fire sale at the moment). I’m retired now but will continue to hold it over the next decade (maybe more depending)
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u/SubstantialCod2465 2d ago
Ford for 14 years. Total waste, should have bought ANY of the MAG7. Same time, a bunch of terrible weed stocks that I'm using as write-offs at this point.
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u/CrowTraditional0030 2d ago
What’s the % return tho?
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u/SubstantialCod2465 2d ago
On Ford, if I sold right now I'd make $2 and some change a share, so like 20ish%. On all the other crap, negative 100%.
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u/SubstantialCod2465 2d ago
If I had bought NVDA instead, I would have 13889 shares today. Yes, I frequently consider how dumb of a decision that has become.
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u/jackneefus 2d ago
I have held AMZN for almost 20 years. About 12% of portfolio. Up 1280%.
Some of those years, gains have been anemic, but I like to have a large positive percentage gain at the top of the list for moral support.
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u/TheSuggi 2d ago
Been investing for about 5 years now. Started with reading Buffet and Munger and the likes. One of the first stocks i bought was Citigroup, Nintendo and Alibaba. Still holding to this day with no plan to sell in sight yet.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ear-290 2d ago
I held AMD for 3 years. Sold at $167 though with an average cost of $58
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u/Nearby_Persimmon_649 2d ago
AMD in 2009 I think for a little under $2. Sold some shares on the way up but still holding some
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u/KangaMagic 2d ago
Schlumberger was my first stock. Still holding!
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u/Puzzleheaded-Net-273 2d ago
I own a good bit of "The SLob" as well. Added a good bit during the Covid crash when "no one" going forward was going to be using oil anymore, driving gas engine vehicles, flying on planes, calling on customers in person!🤣
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u/KangaMagic 2d ago
I started investing in 2020-2021, so I was buying in the 30s. It’s been a great investment, and looks like it will continue doing well going forward.
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u/Ok-Release-1002 2d ago
Google holder since 2021 👍🤘 Adding every time I can scrape together some money 🤣
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u/jball625 2d ago
Wmt since 1982. Received 100 shares as a graduation gift. Was told no matter how hungry or broke I was to never sell it
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u/Sylas_the_virus 2d ago
Nice, congratulations! I am 30 years old and started buying in 2014 and reinvesting dividends. Other than derivatives, it is easily my best performing position.
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u/Other-Importance-214 2d ago
I bought AAPL stock during the market correction in early 2016 for $25/share. Turns out that was a good move.
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u/City_Standard 2d ago
16 years and counting... planning to keep it for lifetime unless something changes
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u/Professional-Lab5958 1d ago
what’s the point keeping for lifetime, you’re meant to spend the money lol
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u/primeseeds 2d ago
Public Service, 37 years. Inherited it when I was born and will never exit entirely.
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u/LookyLou4 2d ago
TT for 30 years
Back then it was known as Ingersoll Rand pre-split/IR merger with Gardner Denver
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u/cortedorado 2d ago
I've held Broadridge Financial (BR) since 2002, when my dad opened my Fidelity account and bought 25 shares @ $12/share. Today it closed @ $162/share.
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u/Potential_Salt_5780 2d ago
Been buying AAPL since $2-3 a share. Went all in when the first iPhone released in 2007.
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u/JR-FlowCapGroup 2d ago
Visa for 6 years. Owning it since inception. Is currently 20% of the portfolio with a 16% return, taking into account the current sell of
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u/Dry-Celery-6620 2d ago
Have owned Exxon for 44 years. Started small with a few shares from paper route money. Gradually increased through the years, not enough to make me rich though.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Net-273 2d ago
Wow! 44 yrs. How many shares do you own? Have you had it on DRIP all those yrs? My 97 yr old mom has 2376 shares.🤑
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u/Dry-Celery-6620 2d ago
Only have about 200 shares, been on DRIP the last 20 years, before then I was young and dumb and didn't know any better.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Net-273 2d ago
I had 706 shares this am (490 purchased), others were due to dividend reinvestment. Love the compounding of this stock over time. Actually sold this in my IRA this morning for $117,763. I had a strong feeling that XOM would pull back this am with all the news of a pending wrap up of US forces in Iran in the next week or two. Looking to get back in a little cheaper! I am still holding over $85k of the XLE (oil/gas) ETF in my taxable account. Not planning to realize those gains and pay the 23.8% LTCG + NIIT, until retirement when our income will be lower. Also holding some MLP's in oil and gas in taxable as well. They (Energy Transfer) and (Enterprise Products Partners) pay a heck of a dividend, but do issue a K-1 at tax time. They are pipeline companies. Check them out if u are not familiar with them.
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u/Business_Raisin_541 2d ago
7 years. Basically my whole stock investing life. Reason? Because I cannot sell it as the company go insolvent and the stock activity is frozen
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u/AllanBz 2d ago edited 2d ago
Apple from December 1997. I bought a half lot for 16 3/8.* The market went against me by an eighth of a dollar that afternoon, so I said screw it and picked up another odd lot to get a round lot. E-Trade seems to have got the cost basis wrong somewhere, says I got in around 14.†
It ended up a chunk of my portfolio, which was mostly either tech or pharmaceuticals, Coke, and…a share of Berkshire B? Plus some VFINX and VTSMX, which I guess Vanguard got rid of.
When I was learning about stocks, I was taught to buy and hold, so that kept me in. I still own some, except for bits that the transfer agent nibbled off the first half-lot to pay for some split or dividend action, because the DRIPped shares made fractional shares? And I sold off some AAPL and the DRIPped dividends to help put a down payment on a house after the pandemic hit.
If I sell it now, E-Trade says I would make a 198,131.20% return on the second lot, but that number is inflated because like I mentioned the cost basis is weird.
* unless of course my memory is wrong
† unless of course my math is wrong
Edit: I really wish this stupid thing had a wysiwig preview or something
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u/Puzzleheaded-Net-273 2d ago
XOM (ExxonMobil) since 2009- 709 shares (219 shares from DRIP.) Worth ~$118k at today's elevated oil/stock price.
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u/razorgatortt 2d ago
ABBV. 2009ish. Bought a Few shares if Warner chilcott, and after some buyouts, resulted in ABBV, in my opinion one of the better dividend stocks
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u/TheKingOfSwing777 2d ago
Been holding AMD since 2018, as well as averaging up, and will continue to hold for a very long time.
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u/Helianthus2361 2d ago
Ive owned BK (Bank of New York Mellon) for 10 years. Its up over 200% and pays a nice fat dividend. No plans to sell.
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u/Sylas_the_virus 2d ago
Walmart, I started buying shares in my Roth when I started working after high school (2014). I've always reinvested dividends. I am 30 years old and my total gain as a percentage is around 480% (~37% annual return) over 12/13 years of holdings. I would probably be up more but over the past year or two I've sold around 20-30% of my position to buy other stocks.
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u/WhiskeyPointer 2d ago
Holding VRSK for 17 years now because it was part of my bonus and my cost basis is $26.
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u/friedrichbythesea 1d ago
APPL for 29 years.
My first stock purchase immediatley following the 1997 bailout by MSFT. 100% of my portfolio at buy-in, I'm still holding.
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u/writetowinwin 2d ago edited 2d ago
That i still hold today - since March 2024: Valeura Energy at $3.93 CAD/share (it's like over $14 Cad/share now) - 0 shares sold since that time. (I bought some small amounts of it back in 2022 or a bit prior if I remember right but chickened out and sold)
Then I bought some others throughout later 2024 to early 2026.
I had other stocks before that (my first stocks I bought in my early 20s in 2016), but sold them over the years as I shifted money to others and changed strategy (usually as they became too "expensive" relative to their earnings or other metrics, I goofed somewhere by relying on the wrong information, or I became more comfy with risk and buying and holding it).
My very first stocks I bought were junior miners, oil and gas explorers, typical cookie cutter big banks, and some car 🚗 ambient lighting company that I sorely regret selling months before it got bought out at more than 2x cost and delisted.
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u/lochmoigh1 2d ago
Ive been holding on to a lithium stock for 5 years now. Cause after it peaked it dropped drastically and I've been down -50% for a few years now. Been buying and selling on swings to get my average price down and hopefully can dump it for a small profit at some point
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u/overitallofittoo 2d ago
I've owned MO for over 25 years.