2 Stocks to Buy if You're Worried About a Recession

Prosper Junior Bakiny, The Motley Fool

Mon, Apr 7, 2025, 2:24 AM 4 min read

Is a recession coming? Our economical outlook seems progressively gloomy owed to President Trump's commercialized policies. Though things mightiness not spell that far, it's inactive worthy readying ahead.

If a recession does hit, it mightiness besides impact the banal market, and antithetic companies and sectors volition execute differently. Let's see 2 stocks that should grip recessions amended than astir and are worthy investing successful for the agelong haul: Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) and HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA).

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is champion known for processing cystic fibrosis (CF) drugs. In patients with this condition, the usually bladed and slippery digestive juices and mucus that support the lungs and different interior organs go heavy and sticky, clogging assorted interior organs and airways. This tin origin each sorts of issues, including respiratory problems.

CF requires changeless care. Vertex markets the lone drugs successful the satellite that people the underlying causes of this disease. Needless to say, patients won't privation to halt taking these medicines, adjacent successful atrocious economical times.

The company's results mightiness endure somewhat if the institution had immoderate competition, but it doesn't. Competitive advantages hardly get stronger than an existent monopoly. That's wherefore the institution should execute good adjacent successful the worst recessions.

Vertex's fiscal results person mostly remained strong. In 2024, the company's gross accrued by 12% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth to $11.02 billion.

The institution inactive has country to turn successful its halfway CF franchise arsenic galore eligible patients person yet to travel connected board. And it has diversified its lineup successful caller years. Its portfolio of approved drugs present features Casgevy, which targets a brace of uncommon humor diseases, and Journavx, a non-opioid medicine for acute pain. These volition lend to Vertex's growth.

Lastly, the institution has a pipeline with respective promising candidates. It is moving signifier 3 studies for inaxaplin arsenic a imaginable attraction for APOL-1 mediated kidney disease, for which nary approved therapies people the underlying causes.

There are respective breathtaking early-stage programs, too. The banal should thrust the adjacent recession conscionable good (whenever it comes) and present fantabulous results agelong after.

HCA Healthcare is 1 of the largest infirmary chains successful the U.S. That's different pouch of the healthcare assemblage that is apt to execute comparatively good successful an economical crisis.