John Mackey and Steve Forbes

John Mackey, co-founder & CEO, Whole Foods Market, shared his model portfolio for busy investors recently and identified Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN), the Seattle-based online retail giant, as one of his favorite stocks and affirmed he liked the company long before it bought his organic grocery chain for $13.7 billion in August 2017.

Mackey praised legendary value investor Benjamin Graham, the mentor of Berkshire Hathaway(NYSE:BRK-B) Chairman Warren Buffett, for identifying and buying undervalued stocks before the strategy gained respect. The words of admiration for Graham and Mackey’s description of Buffett as possibly the greatest of all time (GOAT) among top investors reveals a risk-averse philosophy that could form the makings of a portfolio suitable for widows and orphans.

Buffett’s preferred holding period for any good business he buys through his Berkshire Hathaway parent company is “forever,” Mackey said.

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