All Weather Stocks Have Long-term Price Upsides and Rising Dividends

Long-term investors look for companies that consistently grow their earnings and free cash. Usually their stocks reward patient investors with multi-year price appreciation (long-term capital gains) and increasing dividends that beat the rate of inflation. These type of stocks, which buyupside.com calls all weather stocks, can make money for both growth-oriented and income-oriented investors.

To qualify as an all weather stock, a stock must meet two criteria. First, it must trade consistently above its 10-year moving average (using monthly closing prices). This criteria selects stocks with long-term upside price trends and excludes stocks with extremely volatile upsides and downsides.

Second, quarterly dividends must follow a long-term increasing trend. Quarterly dividends do not have to increase each year, but the trend of dividend changes must be positive. Occasionally, a stock that has decreased a dividend but then immediately an increasing trend is selected.

The all weather stocks are a very select group; not many stocks qualify. But those stocks which meet our criteria should prove to be money makers for patient long-term investors. Through bull and bear markets, all weather stocks keep moving up in price and increasing their dividends.

Here are the current buyupside.com all weather stocks.

buyupside.com All Weather Stocks
*Company and buyupside.com* Article**	Stock Symbol	Industry	Chart	Annual Dividend & Yield
Clorox	CLX	Consumer Products	Chart	$2.00 (3.20%)
C. R. Bard	BCR	Medical Instruments & Supplies	Chart	$0.68 (0.80%)
Ecolab	ECL	Cleaning Products	Chart	$0.62 (1.40%)
General Mills	GIS	Food	Chart	$1.96 (2.70%)
Grainger	GWW	Electronics Wholesale	Chart	$1.84 (1.70%)
Heinz	HNZ	Food	Chart	$1.68 (3.60%)
Kellogg	K	Food	Chart	$1.50 (2.90%)
NSTAR	NST	Electric Utilities	Chart	$1.60 (4.60%)
Kimberly Clark	KMB	Personal Products	Chart	$2.64 (4.40%)
Piedmont Natural Gas	PNY	Natural Gas Utilities	Chart	$1.12 (4.10%)
Proctor & Gamble	PG	Consumer Products	Chart	$1.76 (2.80%)
NOTE: Charts and dividend data are from finance.yahoo.com as of Mar-16-10.

To follow the month-to-month progress of the all weather stock portfolio, check out the chart below. The current value of the portfolio (based on monthly closes) assumes that $909.09 was invested in each of the 11 stocks (total of $10,000) at its closing monthly price of January 1990.

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Check the list often because buyupside.com is always looking for new all weather stocks.

Updated Mar-16-10.

All Weather Stocks Have Long-term Price Upsides and Rising Dividends

All Weather Stocks Have Long-term Price Upsides and Rising Dividends