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# Blue chip US stocks
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Last modified: 2026-10-17

Blue chip US stocks are large, long-established, profitable American companies like Apple, JPMorgan or Johnson & Johnson; the [Dow was built as their list in 1896](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-stock-market-explained). Blue chip describes the business, not the price: a disappointing guide still [sends one sharply lower](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-earnings-explained), as [the Broadcom story](https://mochatrade.com/blog/how-a-quiet-chip-company-became-a) shows.

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