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Top ranking stocks in 2025

Our highest-ranked stocks across major sectors, based on our proprietary scoring model.

Technology

Cadence Design Systems (97%)
Lam Research (94%)
Nvidia (93%)
KLA Corporation (92%)
Arista Networks (90%)

Consumer goods

Coca-Cola (88%)
Hermès (87%)
Procter & Gamble (85%)
Inditex (84%)
Monster Beverage (81%)

Healthcare

Vertex Pharma. (82%)
Regeneron Pharma. (81%)
Novo Nordisk (80%)
Zoetis (80%)
Merck (78%)

Other sectors

Cintas (90%)
Illinois Tool Works (86%)
Meta Platforms (81%)
Copart (81%)
Alphabet (80%)

Ranking and scores as of 14 November 2025

Finding good stocks to buy and hold can be hard

Too much choice: With more than 50,000 publicly traded companies it can be hard to know where to start looking.
A lot of effort: Doing a proper analysis of a business requires time and financial literacy. Doing it for more than a handful of stocks easily overwhelms the typical individual investor.
Too much noise: Friends, the media, financial advisors – there is no shortage of investment ideas today. But hype and emotions have a terrible track record when it comes to investment decisions.
Stocks can be risky: Price volatility, low liquidity, foreign exchange risk and various kinds of frauds make some stocks risky bets rather than solid investments.

Our latest business analysis reports

Apple Stock Analysis 2025: Margins, Earnings and Competitive Strength Explained

27 November 2025

Apple’s 2025 financial performance highlights strong margins, consistent earnings and efficient capital use, supported by a powerful competitive position across key metrics. Despite high liabilities and negative retained earnings, Apple’s profitability and operational discipline keep it among the industry’s top performers and illustrate the robustness of its underlying business model.

4 May 2025

Monster Beverage continues to stand out in a competitive landscape. In our 2025 Competitive Strength Scorecard, we benchmark the company against nine major industry rivals using four key financial metrics. The result: Monster outperforms in 74% of all comparisons. This article breaks down the metrics that matter and where Monster excels.

23 April 2025

Ferrari stands out with strong gross margins, impressive earnings growth, and disciplined cost control-rare traits among car manufacturers. Our full analysis, based on a custom scoring model, evaluates whether Ferrari qualifies as a financially sound business worth considering for value-focused investors. Discover how it compares to peers and where its strengths and weaknesses lie.

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Credible advice: Our research is independent and unbiased: no sponsors or commissions. The only aspect that affects our scores and rankings is the actual financial performance of a business.
Quantitative analysis model: Our objective and structured analytical model mirrors the methods successful professional investors use to appraise businesses.
Reduced risk: Our laser focus on the highest quality stocks – American and European large caps – eliminates many of the typical risks of stock picking.
Save time and effort: We have already put in the hours and done the hard work of monitoring and analyzing a universe of stocks to condense it to the ones that deserve your attention.
Confident investment: Use our stock reports, scores and rankings to build a portfolio of great stocks to buy and hold for the long-term

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Our most viewed business analysis reports

Kering (KER.PA) – quantitative stock analysis September 2024

10 September 2024

Is Kering a value opportunity in the luxury sector? A deep dive into financial performance and competitive positioning shows strengths in margins and earnings consistency, alongside recent strategic investments. Our valuation models suggest a significant disconnect between price and value worth exploring.

10 March 2025

Adobe scores 18 out of 19 in our financial model, placing it among the top performing companies we track. With high margins, strong earnings, and minimal debt, it stands out even in comparison to tech giants like Microsoft and Apple. Our analysis breaks down exactly how Adobe maintains this strength across financial and competitive dimensions.

4 May 2025

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Blue chips value investing

Who this site is for

At Blue Chips Value Investing we know you are the kind of people who want to be successful stock investors. Those who transform their savings into growing wealth. In theory it is simple: Just find a few good stocks to buy and hold for the long term and then sit back and watch them grow in value.

Our investing philosophy

The problem is that finding good stocks can be very time-consuming, which can easily make you feel that it is too much effort to even get started as an individual investor. We believe that building long-term wealth shouldn’t be a privilege for the few. It should be possible for anyone with the right guidance. We understand that most individual investors don’t have the time or tools to conduct in-depth fundamental analyses for hundreds of companies to build a strong small portfolio of stocks that lets them sleep well at night. Nor should they have to.

How we analyze businesses

That’s why we have developed our quantitative stock analysis model that condenses the vast universe of publicly traded companies to the ones that we feel deserve your attention. Here’s how it works:

We extract the valuable information that is buried in the financial statements of publicly traded companies and transform it into a business health scorecard that readily tells us if a business is in good financial shape.
To enhance the analysis, our competitive strength assessment compares a company’s key financial performance metrics against its closest peers to determine if it benefits from a competitive advantage that will allow it to continue to prosper in the future.
When combined, these two tools provide us with a compass that sets our direction towards great companies and helps us stay clear of questionable investments.

These are the exact metrics we are using in our quantitative stock analysis model to determine the financial health of a business:

Gross and net margin
SG&A expense rate
Net income and retained earnings growth
Long term debt to earnings ratio
Total liabilities to equity ratio
Existence of share buybacks
Return on equity
Capital expenditures to earnings ratio

And these are the questions that guide our assessment:

Are the margins high and consistent?
Is the income consistent and growing?
Is the amount of debt the company has small compared to earnings and equity?
Is the return on equity high?
Are expenses sufficiently low?

What you gain as a reader

Take a look at our top ranking stocks and read our analysis reports to gain a deeper understanding about why we believe they present wonderful investment opportunities, so you can become a better investor who can build a high-performing stock portfolio with confident and informed investment decisions.