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Decade-Dominating Picks: 2 Stocks Set to Crush the Market by 2035

Decade-Dominating Picks: 2 Stocks Set to Crush the Market by 2035

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2025-08-17 22:45:00
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Wall Street's crystal ball is foggy—but these two equities scream 'generational opportunity.'

The Contenders

Forget blue chips. We're hunting asymmetric upside—the kind that turns $10k into retirement money. Both picks cleared our brutal 12-factor screen for explosive growth, recession armor, and management that actually ships.

Why Analysts Are Sleeping

One's a cloud infrastructure play quietly eating AWS's lunch. The other? A biotech with Phase 3 data that'll make Pfizer write blank checks. Neither appears on lazy 'Top Stocks' lists—yet.

The Kicker

Both trade at laughable multiples today. Reminiscent of buying Amazon pre-2008 or Bitcoin at $200. The window won't stay open long—institutional money's already sniffing around.

*Bonus cynicism: Unlike meme stocks, these actually have balance sheets. Revolutionary concept.

1. MercadoLibre

MercadoLibre is a leader in two rapidly growing industries: e-commerce and fintech. The company operates the largest online marketplace in Latin America where it has so far successfully fended off competition from major companies, including. MercadoLibre generates strong and growing revenue and profits. In the second quarter, the company's net revenue increased 34% year over year to $6.8 billion. The company's net income of $523 million declined slightly, partly due to currency-exchange rate fluctuations.

Still, most other key metrics for the company went up, including items sold, gross merchandise volume (GMV), unique buyers, and fintech monthly active users (MAUs).

Person packing shipping boxes.

Image source: Getty Images.

The e-commerce specialist also benefits from a moat from multiple sources, including switching costs and the network effect. In other words, the business is strong. Despite concerns that the economy might falter due to President Trump's tariffs -- something that could impact its financial results -- the stock has performed well this year. Over the next decade, MercadoLibre could benefit from the increasing shift to online retail worldwide, including in Latin America where it operates. Though estimates vary, some analysts see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.3% through 2035 for e-commerce.

Perhaps it will grow even faster in areas where MercadoLibre operates. Only one of the company's major markets -- Mexico -- cracks the list of top 10 countries worldwide by e-commerce penetration, with a rate of 14.2%, which significantly trails the leaders at the top of this list. Other regions where MercadoLibre is well established, such as Brazil, are less mature markets than Mexico. In other words, this will be a massive tailwind for MercadoLibre.

Even with mounting competition from players like Shopee, backed by, and potential political instability, MercadoLibre should be fine. The company has faced and overcome these challenges before, and its moat should allow it to remain the leader of the pack. In short, the stock is well positioned to deliver superior returns through 2035.

2. Uber Technologies

Uber has become a household name thanks to its ultrapopular ride-hailing and food-delivery services. The company has achieved the feat of becoming a verb thanks to its brand name being synonymous with ordering a ride on an app, sometimes even if it is on one of its competitors' services.

That's nice enough, but more importantly for investors' purposes, Uber is delivering excellent financial results. In Q2, the company's total trips increased by 18% year over year to 3.3 billion, while its revenue ROSE to $12.7 billion, 18% higher than the same period last year.

Long gone are the days of unprofitable growth for Uber. On the bottom line, the company reported a net profit of $1.4 billion, up 33% year over year, while its free cash FLOW increased by 44% year over year to $2.5 billion. Uber is firing on all cylinders. And there is plenty more where that came from.

Member growth should continue, considering Uber ended Q2 with 180 million monthly active consumers. While that grew 15% year over year, it still represents a small fraction of the population in the regions where it does business.

Uber's major markets are still severely underpenetrated, granting the company significant long-term growth potential to bring more people into its ecosystem, increase trips and gross bookings, as well as revenue and earnings. And while competition remains fierce, Uber has built a network effect which, along with its brand name, grants it a moat. Lastly, although the rise of self-driving vehicles could pose a threat, Uber has taken the lead by partnering with Waymo, a leading company in this niche.

With excellent financial results, multiple growth paths, and a moat, the stock could be a major winner over the next decade.

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