12 Safe Stocks to Buy for the Long Term in 2025

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2. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 165

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is a California-based payments technology firm. This company stands out as a worthwhile investment due to various compelling reasons. To begin, the company has a strong dividend growth with 16 consecutive years of increases, surpassing the sector median of 2.1 years by 660%. In addition, the company has also maintained 16 consecutive years of dividend payments, outperforming the sector median of 13.3 years by 20%. This shows the company is strongly committed to providing value to shareholders. In addition, the company plans to acquire Featurespace, a developer of real-time AI payments protection technology, which will enable Visa to provide enhanced fraud prevention tools to clients and protect consumers in real-time across various payment methods. Lastly, the company has also launched Visa Provisioning Intelligence, utilizing machine learning to predict the probability of fraud in token provisioning requests, empowering financial institutions to combat token fraud at its source.

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