Forget Selling Netflix: NFLX Is the Streaming Stock I'm Buying More Of
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) isn't just another stock to me. This one is special, and I still think it's a great buy in 2026. It was one of the first stocks I ever bought, and the first business model I really understood. This was way back when the red mailers were disrupting Blockbuster's time-honored video rentals. In the summer of 2006, I spent weeks researching the home video industry, interviewing video store owners, and checking the film collections in every outlet I could find. Download services like Vongo and Movielink were promising, and so was the cable TV industry's video-on-demand option -- but those services never got the Hollywood support and huge catalogs they needed. Netflix stood apart with the largest movie catalog, the most convenient delivery service (if you didn't mind waiting for the mail), and unstoppable innovation. The company had "Net" in its name long before most home internet connections were fast enough to stream digital movies. Late fees? Nope, you must be thinking of Blockbuster and Movie Gallery. Continue reading