Portfolio of Homebuilding Stocks

The major home builders are cyclical so buy them on the upside and avoid them on the downside.

Homebuilding Stocks
Company	Symbol	10-Year Moving Average Chart*	Price and PDI Chart	Multiyear Returns	Businesses
Beazer Homes USA	BZH	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
Brookfield Homes	BHS	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building, financial services, construction services and investment real estate.
D R Horton	DHI	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
Homebuilders SPDR	XHB	Chart	Chart	Table	Mostly homebuilders. Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
Hovnanian Enterprises	HOV	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction	ITB	Chart	Chart	Table	Only Homebuilders. Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
Lennar	LEN	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
KB Home	KBH	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
MDC Holdings	MDC	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
Meritage Homes	MTH	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
NVR	NVR	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
PowerShares Dynamic Building & Construction	PKB	Chart	Chart	Table	Homebuilders, heavy equipment, home improvement and other stocks. Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
Pulte Homes	PHM	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
Ryland Group	RYL	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
Standard Pacific	SPF	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building and financial services.
Toll Brothers	TOL	Chart	Chart	Table	Home building, financial services and management services.
NOTE: * A stock with fewer than eleven years of price data from Yahoo! Finance will not display a 10-year moving average.

Non-Dividend-Paying Portfolios includes links to each portfolio of a few or no dividend-paying stocks.

Dividend-Paying Portfolios includes links to each portfolio of dividend-paying stocks.

Great Dividend Stocks includes links to more dividend-paying stocks.

To follow the day-to-day progress of the Homebuilding portfolio, check out the chart below. It is updated each day, so the portfolio values are always current. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $833.33 was invested (total of $10,000) in each of the 12 stocks at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2001. The portfolio chart does not include BHS (lack of price data) and the three homebuilding ETFs: XHB, ITB and PKB.

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Today's date: Mar-20-2010.