When it comes to blue chip investing, the most attractive opportunities are often businesses with scale, strong cash generation, and the ability to adapt as industries evolve.
These are not shares that rely on perfect conditions. They are built to perform through different economic environments.
With that in mind, here are two ASX 200 blue chip shares that analysts think could be top buys for readers with $7,000 to invest:
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd (ASX: ALL)
Aristocrat Leisure could be one of the most successful global success stories on the ASX.
While many investors still associate the company with poker machines, Aristocrat has evolved into a diversified gaming and digital entertainment business. It now operates across land-based gaming, social casino games, and regulated online gaming, giving it multiple growth levers.
What makes Aristocrat particularly attractive as a long-term holding is its strong cash flow generation. This allows it to invest heavily in product development and continue to gain market share in key regions like North America.
Importantly, Aristocrat’s content-led model creates durability. Successful games can deliver returns for many years, and its scale allows it to reinvest more than smaller competitors. For long-term investors, this combination of growth, resilience, and capital discipline is hard to ignore.
Bell Potter is bullish and has a buy rating and $80.00 price target on its shares. It said:
We retain our Buy recommendation. We continue to expect ALL’s leading R&D investment will drive market share gains. Top 2 game performance observed in both the core sales and premium gaming ops markets leaves us confident that ALL will grow the install base >4.0k per year and grow global shipments. Further, with leverage standing at 0.2x, ALL has substantial M&A firepower to boost growth inorganically.
Woolworths Group Ltd (ASX: WOW)
Woolworths may not be as exciting, but it could still be a great blue chip ASX 200 share for investors.
As Australia’s leading supermarket operator, it sits at the centre of everyday spending. Regardless of economic conditions, people still need to buy food, groceries, and household essentials. This gives the business a level of demand stability that very few companies can match.
In recent periods, Woolworths has been investing heavily to sharpen its value proposition, improve customer experience, and expand its digital capabilities. Its growing ecommerce operations, loyalty ecosystem, and data-driven platforms are helping it stay relevant in a highly competitive market.
For long-term investors, Woolworths offers a blend of defensive earnings, scale advantages, and steady dividends.
Bell Potter is also a fan of Woolworths and has a buy rating and $30.70 price target on its shares. It said:
WOW has been in an earnings downgrade cycle for two years and this looks to be coming to an end. Trading at a reasonable ~12% discount to COL and ~14% discount to its historical FWD EV/EBITDA, there is now a reasonable valuation arbitrage, just as the underperformance in Australian Food looks to be bottoming and out-of-home indicators improving (the latter a positive for B2B).
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