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Finance: What is a Blue Chip? 18 Views

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What is a Blue Chip? Blue chip stocks are stocks with very large market caps; basically meaning their issued stock is worth a lot of money. These companies are very well established and successful making them safe long-term investment options.

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Finance a la shmoop, what is a blue-chip? Alright people think kids, plastic, poker
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chipset, remember those cheap plastic poker chips? [Someone looking at their cards]
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Yeah the the whites were supposed to be a penny [The money equivalents of the chips are shown]
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the Reds were a nickel and the Blues the most highly valued chips in the set well
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they were worth a dime and that's where the name came from the highly valued

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blue chip and it refers to high-quality, highly valued companies Disney, Coke and [Logos of the blue chip companies]
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in today's world Google, Amazon, Shmoop alright maybe not Shmoop. All right but
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the rest of those companies are blue chips which have a long track record of [Blue chip stamp]
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growing profits if not revenues for a very long period of time and they have
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corporate cultures that are all about winning [People playing poker with their heads replaced by briefcases with company logos on them]
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whatever game they're in so go blue, well sure them too... [Football player is tackled]
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