This article was published on Dividend Kings on Tuesday, March 7th.
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Bear markets are wonderful, though they never feel that way while you’re in them. Why? Because this is exactly the best time to buy the world’s best companies at reasonable to downright face-slapping great prices.
Bear market lows can’t be predicted with consistency. And you never know except in hindsight when they have occurred. But the rallies off the final lows are almost always astonishing.
And this is just the S&P 500 (SP500). Individual blue-chips can deliver even more incredible life-changing returns coming out of a bear market.
Consider the examples of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), the kings of cloud computing.
What kind of 12-month returns following a bear market can you get with these world-beater growth stocks?
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