Better Buy: Boeing or All 30 Dow Jones Stocks?
It's a common question for investors: Does it make more sense to hedge your bet and buy into a bundle of stocks, or would it be wiser to take a shot an individual stock?
For most investors most of the time, a broad-based index fund like the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEMKT: DIA) is the better choice. It takes time to manage a portfolio of individual stocks, and even when there's time, the odds of beating the broad market are still rather slim.
There are scenarios, however, when an individual stock is the better buy... even when that stock is beleaguered aircraft company Boeing (NYSE: BA).
Source Fool.com
