What's the Better Long-Term Investment: The Nasdaq-100 or the Top S&P 500 Growth Stocks?

If you're investing in the long term, growth stocks can help you maximize your gains. They can offer superior gains to dividend stocks, which often prioritize making recurring payments over growing their operations at high rates. The downside with growth stocks is that they can experience a lot of volatility from one year to the next. But if you're investing for not only years but decades, it can make a lot of sense to focus on growth stocks since over the long haul they're likely to outperform dividend stocks.Rather than picking individual growth stocks, you may want to put money into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), which gives you broad exposure to many of them through just a single investment. Two popular options include the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ), which tracks the Nasdaq-100 index, and the Vanguard S&P 500 Growth Index Fund ETF (NYSEMKT: VOOG) which focuses on growth companies within the S&P 500. Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool