• Nifty Fifty was a group of 50 large-cap stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1960s and 1970s with consistent earnings growth and high P/E ratios.
  • Examples of Nifty Fifty stocks included big names such as General Electric, Coca-Cola and IBM. However, part of that list also included struggling or defunct companies such as Xerox and Polaroid.
  • Today’s blue chip stocks are a lot like Nifty Fifty stocks of past decades.