I’ve spent a decent amount of this year writing about sectors, ETFs and individual companies that I think have interesting long term setups (and ones I’d avoid).
Here’s a sampling of what I’ve written about so far this year. Today’s article will have some overlap with these, and will also feature some new ideas:
This piece is not meant to be some definitive list of all of my favorite investments, much less a prescription for what everybody should buy when the market goes down. Rather I wanted to re-up a list of ideas I want to have ready to bat around if we finally get a serious selloff, which I am expecting, from where things stand today.
Heading into this past weekend my *26 Stocks To Watch for 2026 *are up an estimated +24.7% and beating the S&P 500 by an estimated +12.8% on an average, equal weighted basis and I’ve already started compiling my *27 Stocks I’m Watching For 2027 *list ideas for next year. Hopefully this piece can hold us over until we see how the market performs this last quarter of 2026.
It is also worth pointing out what isn’t on this list. The last time I put together a bear market shopping list back on March 28, I specifically highlighted Amazon, Meta and Microsoft as three mega cap names I thought were becoming interesting as their valuations compressed.
Using the March 27 close, Amazon was around $199, Meta around $526 and Microsoft around $357. As of September 11, they were roughly $257, $648 and $496, respectively, gains of about 29%, 23% and 39% in less than six months. I still like the names for the long term, but they’ve already done exactly what I was hoping they would do when I highlighted them so I’m not going to recycle them here.
This list is about where I’d specifically be looking for new opportunities to deploy longer-term capital if the market sold off from where it sits right now.
None of these are recommendations to buy, and none are predictions about where anything will bottom. Some could get absolutely destroyed in a genuine liquidation. That’s the point. This is simply a working shopping list of places I’d start looking if and when valuations reset, leverage gets wrung out and investors start throwing good assets out with bad ones.
