Our Best Blue Chip Stocks for 2025

Blue-chip stocks are from companies that are large, well-established, and financially sound. These companies are leaders in their industries with strong brand names and reputations, and generate dependable earnings. Blue-chip stocks usually boast consistent dividends and are often considered to be less risky, given the financial stability of these companies.

Investor opinion may differ on what is required for a stock to be considered a blue-chip stock. Some investors demand that a stock be included in a particular index, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while others may only include dividend-paying stocks in their list of blue-chip stock. Still others may have specific market capitalisation thresholds for blue-chip stocks.

Regardless of whether you use indexes or market caps to determine whether a company is ‘large’ enough to consider, blue chip stocks often share the following qualities:

• Earn wide Morningstar Economic Moat Ratings: Stocks that have durable competitive advantages, or economic moats, are by their very natures more reliable than no-moat companies in terms of their businesses. Wide-moat companies are financially healthy and highly profitable, two qualities that are prized when the economy is tough.
• Have Low or Medium Morningstar Uncertainty Ratings: The Uncertainty Rating represents the predictability of a company’s future cash flows. As such, we have a reasonable to high degree of confidence in our fair value estimates of stocks from companies with Low and Medium Uncertainty Ratings.
• Have Exemplary Morningstar Capital Allocation Ratings: Companies that earn the highest marks are led by managers who are in shareholders' corners. These managers are exceptional stewards of shareholder capital--and that matters, because capital-allocation decisions ultimately lead to the creation or destruction of value for shareholders.

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