“The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”

Peter Lynch once said, “The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” There’s a lot of truth in that.

I’ll give you an example.

Here’s a look at Clorox (CLX) over the last 30 years. The stock has been a huge winner. CLX is up more than 30-fold over 30 years.

Here’s the same stock, but I’ve zoomed in a bit on one five-year stretch.

The point is that even with big winners, there are periods of lackluster performance. Just don’t get scared out of them.

Posted by on January 15th, 2020 at 1:05 pm


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