Walmart, Visa, and Coca-Cola are all long-term winners.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average , which tracks the 30 most prominent companies in America, is a good starting point for finding some reliable blue chip stocks. Over the past decade, the Dow rose nearly 180% even as the pandemic, inflation , soaring interest rates , geopolitical conflicts, and other macro headwinds rattled the global economy.

But not all of the Dow stocks are long-term winners. Over the past five years, Disney 's (NYSE: DIS) stock declined nearly 10%, Nike 's (NYSE: NKE) stock tumbled 33%, and UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH) stayed nearly flat. Those stocks might initially seem like sound investments, but they all faced difficult challenges: Disney racked up steep losses as it expanded its streaming pla

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