10 Best American Stocks To Buy and Hold in 2025

6. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 165

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is an American payment processing company, which is also recognized as one of the world’s largest financial companies. The company handled more than $15 trillion in payments in fiscal 2023. On January 24, Piper Sanlder raised its price target on the stock from $322 to $368, while maintaining an Outperform rating. The firm anticipates that the revenues and margins for the company are largely undervalued when considering the impact generative AI can have on the payment ecosystem.

During the fiscal fourth quarter of 2024. The company reported growing its revenue by 12% year-over-year to reach $9.6 billion. Moreover, Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) has been making significant strides in expanding its business partnerships and enhancing its payment solutions. Management reported securing 650 new business partnerships while also expanding and renewing existing agreements with key organizations including Grupo Promerica, SMCC, Alrajhi, Standard Chartered Bank, and more. It is one of the best American stocks to buy and hold in 2025.

Montaka Global Investments stated the following regarding Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) in its Q3 2024 investor letter:

“Montaka owns several duopolists in the financial services industry, including Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) and Mastercard in payments; and S&P Global in credit ratings and financial data services. These businesses have competitively protected and reliably growing core businesses. But they also have newer, high-probability adjacent opportunities. The market, however, is underappreciating this powerful combination, in our view.

For Visa and Mastercard, their core businesses in global payment processing are being complemented by significant growth in two areas:

New processing opportunities in peer-to-peer, business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and government-to-consumer payments; and

Value-added services, including risk, fraud-detection, issuance, acceptance, and open banking.”