Top Stocks to Buy and Hold in 2025

There are thousands of publicly traded companies you can invest in, not to mention the many exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds you can buy. So, it's unsurprising that many investors don't know where to begin. Even with a market that reached record highs in late 2025, plenty of stocks remain extremely attractive for long-term investors to consider buying.

But what are the best stocks to buy in November 2025? Although I can't consult a crystal ball that tells me what stocks will deliver the best returns, I've tried to do the next best thing. In this article, I'll discuss 10 stocks that I think could be great buys for long-term investors looking to put their money to work.

The new leaders are already making some big moves, including rolling out an industry-leading cash-back debit card product and launching an advertising platform. Since the new leadership took over, efficiency has improved dramatically, and earnings per share (EPS) is significantly higher.

This could be just a starting point. Management has recently presented investors with a growth roadmap and believes it can achieve sustainable 20% annual earnings growth in the not-too-distant future.

The company had 434 million active users across PayPal and Venmo, and it processes about $1.9 trillion in annualized payment volume. It also produces more than $6 billion in free cash flow annually and has been using it to aggressively buy back its own stock, a sign that management thinks it's cheap.

It's not hard to see why PayPal's management is choosing to use its capital this way. As of November 2025, the stock traded at a historically low price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of less than 2 times trailing-12-month sales and for less than 13 times forward earnings.

2. Airbnb

Few companies have been as successful in disrupting an entire industry as Airbnb. The company started in 2007 as a few air mattresses on the floor of the co-founders' apartments (that's where the company gets its name) and has evolved to the point where it has changed the way millions of people look at travel accommodations.

Airbnb has more than 5 million hosts who list over 8 million properties and experiences on its platform. In the most recent quarter alone, more than 133 million nights and experiences were booked on Airbnb's platform, with a total booking value of $22.9 billion, which represents 14% year-over-year growth.

Airbnb is not only massive and growing quickly but also highly profitable. It generated $4.5 billion in free cash flow (FCF) and has a 38% FCF margin over the four quarters ending Sept. 30, 2025.

Looking forward, Airbnb has $11.7 billion in cash and short-term investments on its balance sheet. And it still has a massive growth opportunity.

Its overall market opportunity is estimated to be trillions of dollars when including short-term stays, long-term stays, and experiences. Plus, management clearly believes the stock's valuation doesn't accurately reflect the long-term opportunity, given that the company has been buying back shares rather aggressively.

3. MercadoLibre

One of my favorite long-term stock investments in the market, MercadoLibre, is often referred to as the Amazon of Latin America, and for good reason. The company operates an e-commerce marketplace with a dominant presence in some of the region's most populous nations, including Brazil and Argentina.

However, there's a lot more to MercadoLibre. It operates a fast-growing payments platform called Mercado Pago, a logistics service known as Mercado Envios, a business lending platform, and more.

The marketplace saw $16.5 billion in merchandise volume in the third quarter of 2025, representing a 28% increase over the same quarter in 2024. Mercado Pago processes almost $285 billion in annualized payment volume, with three-quarters of this volume coming from outside the company's e-commerce platform.

Both main parts of the business are growing rapidly. And don't overlook Mercado Crédito, the company's young but fast-growing (and highly profitable) lending business. Mercado Crédito has $11 billion in outstanding loan balances.

MercadoLibre isn't just the Amazon of Latin America -- it's the Amazon, PayPal, Block (XYZ -0.08%) (owner of Square and Cash App), Shopify, and more, all rolled into one. And it's in a much earlier stage of growth. As the e-commerce and fintech landscapes in Latin America evolve over the coming years, MercadoLibre could be a major long-term beneficiary.

CrowdStrike collects security data from each of its many users, analyzes it, and uses it to automate security throughout its entire network. This makes the platform highly effective at detecting the newest threats.

And the more users adopt CrowdStrike's solutions (known as its Falcon platform), the more effective it becomes. The use of crowdsourced threat data, combined with its leading market share, gives it a competitive advantage over peers.

With almost $4.7 billion in annual recurring revenue and an 80% subscription gross margin, CrowdStrike's growth has been impressive, but this could be just the beginning. The company sees its current addressable market at $116 billion in potential revenue and expects that the opportunity could more than double to $250 billion by 2029.

5. Intuitive Surgical

Robot-assisted surgery beats shaky human hands. That general thesis hasn't changed much from when I first noticed Intuitive Surgical stock in 2005. The da Vinci Surgical System is the clear market leader, and its "razor and blades" model helps Intuitive generate a recurring stream of revenue.

In the third quarter of 2025, Intuitive Surgical reported year-over-year revenue growth of 23%, fueled by 20% growth in performed da Vinci procedures. Intuitive Surgical is dominant in its space, with a global market share of about 80%.

It has lots of room to grow as the adoption of its surgical systems and the number of supported procedures increase over time. This is particularly true in many international markets, where the implementation of robot-assisted surgery could be a long-tailed growth catalyst for this excellent business for decades to come.

6. Shopify

Shopify operates a platform designed to enable businesses of all sizes to sell their products online, with a particular focus on empowering smaller businesses and growing with them by establishing long-term relationships. Shopify offers a subscription plan starting at $39 per month for businesses (even less for one-person merchants).

In fact, barely five years after launching, Disney+ Core now has 128 million paid subscribers, while Hulu adds tens of millions more. In addition, the market is absorbing price increases with minimal impact on subscriber count, and Disney's streaming business has recently become profitable for the first time ever.

While consumers are clearly feeling the pressure of inflation, demand for Disney's theme parks, movies, and cruise line has been strong. In fact, per-guest revenue in Disney's parks is far greater than in comparable pre-COVID-19 pandemic times, thanks to initiatives that have driven higher in-park spending. Plus, the company is investing $60 billion over a decade in its theme parks and cruise line to ensure they remain full for the foreseeable future.

With Disney also laser-focused on the profitability of Disney+ and its other streaming platforms, Hulu and ESPN+, this could be a powerful combination of profitable, all-weather revenue streams. In a nutshell, Disney might be the ultimate combination of an in-person experiential stock and a tech-focused growth business.

Disney's amazing stable of intellectual properties (the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, ESPN, Pixar, etc.) and its cash-machine theme park business give it a margin of safety that makes it perhaps the safest stock on this list. And it still maintains tremendous profit growth potential as newer areas of its business evolve.

8. Berkshire Hathaway

Although most of this list is made up of growth stocks, or at least stocks that have some exciting growth drivers, this is the relatively boring value pick of the bunch (but in the best possible way). Berkshire Hathaway owns a collection of about 60 subsidiary businesses, including household names such as GEICO, Duracell, and Dairy Queen, to name just a few.

Berkshire also owns a portfolio of common stocks -- worth about $315 billion as of November 2025 -- that includes massive stakes in Apple (AAPL -0.86%), Bank of America (BAC -1.96%), Chevron (CVX -0.92%), American Express (AXP -0.24%), and Coca-Cola (KO +0.19%), as well as positions in dozens of other companies.

Many were particularly savvy investments, such as the Bank of America stake, which resulted from a preferred stock deal made in the wake of the financial crisis. In addition to its businesses and stock portfolio, Berkshire also had around $382 billion in cash and short-term investments as of June 30, 2025, giving it incredible financial flexibility to take advantage of opportunities as they arise.

Berkshire is putting some of that cash to work, agreeing to buy Occidental Petroleum's (OXY -0.58%) petrochemical unit, OxyChem, in October 2025 for $9.7 billion. That's its biggest deal since 2022, when Buffett's company bought insurance company Alleghany for $11.6 billion.

Berkshire continues to produce market-beating returns in most years despite its massive size. And while Berkshire certainly won't produce the roughly 5,550,000% return (not a typo) it has produced from the time Buffett took the helm in 1964 through the end of 2024, there's no reason to believe it won't continue to outpace the S&P 500 (^GSPC -1.56%) index for the foreseeable future.

In fact, the company recently reached an impressive milestone by becoming the first non-technology company to reach a trillion-dollar market cap. Legendary investor Warren Buffett plans to step down as CEO at the end of 2025, but the company is in good hands. Berkshire's winning culture is likely to live on for decades, even in its post-Buffett era.

9. Amazon

Amazon doesn't really need much of an elevator pitch for most people. The company holds a dominant lead in the U.S. e-commerce market. And its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform is also a market leader, with a significant lead over the other two large players in the space, Microsoft and Alphabet.

However, more growth potential exists than you might think. We're still a long way from maximizing e-commerce adoption, as it accounts for only a little more than 16% of all U.S. retail sales.

The cloud industry is relatively young and expected to roughly quadruple in size to a $2.3 trillion market by 2032. Amazon also has a ton of potential in other areas, including healthcare, grocery stores, neighborhood markets, and more.

10. Alphabet

Alphabet isn't exactly a household name, but its main subsidiary, Google, certainly is. And there's a lot more to the business and its potential than the massive internet search operation that has a dominant market share.