What "long-term" filters out
Most of finance YouTube is, quietly, about the next few weeks — earnings, a catalyst, a breakout. This list is the opposite cut: the stocks creators frame as buy-and-hold, the ones they say they would still own in five years. That framing changes which names rise to the top. Quick-trade tickers fall away, and what is left skews toward durable businesses with a moat, real profitability and a reason to compound — the holdings creators are least likely to flip.
Because "long-term" is a stance rather than a keyword, we surface it differently from the AI or dividend lists. Here the bar is conviction: a stock only appears when the consensus is firmly to buy and the analysis behind those calls is high-quality — strong reasoning, not a passing mention. The effect is a shortlist of the names creators back with their most considered, least speculative analysis.
Holding power comes from understanding, not a list
The hard part of long-term investing is not picking the stock — it is holding it through the 30% drawdown that every great compounder eventually delivers. A ranking cannot give you that conviction; only understanding the business can. So use this list as a starting shortlist, then open each name and read why multiple creators are willing to hold it, and open the creator profiles to see whose long-term picks actually beat the S&P 500 over time.
It is also worth knowing what this list is not: it is not a portfolio, and a high score is not a hold rating from us. We aggregate what finance YouTubers say with their most patient analysis — the decision, the position size and the time horizon are yours. As with everything here, this is research, not financial advice.