► Subscribe for new videos every day!: http://bit.ly/dai_youtube ► "Growth and Income" Portfolio (Grand-Twins College Fund): https://dividendsandincome.com/mike-nadels-grand-twins-college-fund/ ► Income Builder Portfolio: https://dailytradealert.com/income-builder-portfolio/ ► Read it Here: https://dividendsandincome.com/2021/08/25/if-i-could-only-own-one-stock-forever-this-would-be-it/ Microsoft (MSFT) makes products that corporations need and consumers want. Although it is considered “old tech” by some, it is an innovative company that is still growing strongly. It has a very wide moat, and it boasts a pristine balance sheet. Microsoft is one of the most valuable businesses in existence for a simple reason: It is among the very best companies on the face of the earth. As a strong believer in a diversified portfolio and as an investor who has lived through several recessions, I get the willies just thinking about having a one-stock portfolio. So rest assured … nobody here is suggesting that any investor have Microsoft (or any other single company) as one’s only holding. But if I was going to pick only one stock, and I had to own it forever — or at least for years and years — it had better be a darn good one. Microsoft certainly is that, and more. Then … And Now Not all that long ago, Microsoft was primarily a software company, selling floppy disks loaded with Windows and Office. It was a highly profitable business, turning college dropouts Bill Gates and Paul Allen into two of the world’s richest people. As the computing universe changed, however, MSFT was slow to adapt. While competitors were embracing “the internet of things” and going mobile, Microsoft was still hawking Windows and Office disks for PCs. My primary strategy is Dividend Growth Investing, so I like that Microsoft’s dividend has increased substantially over the last decade-plus. With its ability to generate free cash flow, its extremely low debt and its low payout ratios, Microsoft gets a Dividend Safety score of 99 (out of 100) from Simply Safe Dividends. When I first started buying Microsoft stock, it had a 3% dividend yield. The stock’s price surge over the last few years has dropped that yield well below 1% … but that’s a very pleasant “problem” to have. You’ll never hear me say, “Darn it … Microsoft is making me too much money!” Although Microsoft isn’t really the only stock I own, it has grown to become the largest position in my portfolio by a pretty wide margin. And as long as its business model remains relevant and fundamentally sound, I see no reason I’d ever sell it. MSFT also has been a star in all three real-money, public portfolios I manage. With a total return of about 650% since December 2014, Microsoft has been the best performer in the Dividend Growth 50, it has the second-highest total return in the Income Builder Portfolio, which I launched in 2018; and MSFT is the No. 4 gainer in the Grand-Twins College Fund that I started in June 2020. Before settling on Microsoft, other stocks I considered for this exercise included NextEra Energy (NEE), Visa (V), McDonald’s (MCD), Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Johnson & Johnson. My portfolio holds all of those companies, and it would be hard to imagine long-term investors going wrong with any of them. Nevertheless, I kept coming back to Microsoft as the one I’d own if I could own only one. It’s a well-run, wide-moat, dividend-growing, forward-thinking, money-making machine. ► Website: http://www.dividendsandincome.com/ ► Jason Fieber's Patreon: http://bit.ly/dai_patreon #DividendGrowth #DividendStocks #WhatStockstoBuy