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Blue chips are the stocks of the market's largest, most solid and established companies: the heavyweights of every exchange.
The name comes from poker's blue chips, the most valuable ones. They're sector leaders with stable earnings, often regular dividends and decades of history: Apple, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola.
They offer less explosive growth than small caps but more stability: in crashes they tend to fall less and recover sooner, and they're the first picks of big institutional funds.
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More stable than average, but not immune: even giants like General Electric or Nokia lost their leadership.
By buying individual names or, more simply, ETFs on the major indexes that are full of them.