I owned $MSFT for a decade where it went nowhere, and I ended up selling right at the cusp of the breakout. The frustration of holding a stock, where the stock price is not going anywhere but the business fundamentals getting better, year after year, is something you have to live to understand.
It is not easy to hold a stock for 10 years, and sell it for no return, and then in the next 10 years the stock goes up 10x… No you absolutely don’t want to buy when others are selling… they may sound sexy, the truth is you need to be extremely smart to be a contrarian, and travel on a path less traveled.