buyupside.com Pairs Portfolio Is for the Long Term Investor

The buyupside.com pairs stock portfolio is a diversified group of pairs of stocks from 11 different industries. The portfolio is designed for the long-term, buy-and-hold investor who will reinvest dividends. The pairs approach gives you a bit of diversity within an industry as well as across industries.

All but two of the stocks pay safe and, in many instances, increasing dividends.

If you decide to buy any of these stocks, remember to buy on the price upside, do not pay too much, and do not buy on the downside. Check the price chart of the stock before you buy.

buypside.com Pairs Stocks
Company	Symbol	10-Year Moving Average Chart*	Price and PDI Chart	Multiyear Returns	Industry
3M	MMM	Chart	Chart	Table	Conglomerate
Apple Computer*	AAPL	Chart	Chart	Table	Technology
Aqua America	WTR	Chart	Chart	Table	Water Utility
BHP Billiton	BHP	Chart	Chart	Table	Metals Mining
Caterpillar	CAT	Chart	Chart	Table	Heavy Equipment
ChevronTexaco	CVX	Chart	Chart	Table	Oil & Gas - Integrated
Colgate-Palmolive	CL	Chart	Chart	Table	Personal & Houseware
Deere & Co	DE	Chart	Chart	Table	Heavy Equipment
Duke Energy	DUK	Chart	Chart	Table	Electric Utility
Emerson Electric	EMR	Chart	Chart	Table	Capital Goods
Exxon Mobil	XOM	Chart	Chart	Table	Oil & Gas - Integrated
H.J. Heinz	HNZ	Chart	Chart	Table	Food
Hershey Foods	HSY	Chart	Chart	Table	Food
Honda Motor	HMC	Chart	Chart	Table	Automotive
International Business Machines	IBM	Chart	Chart	Table	Technology
Illinois Toolworks	ITW	Chart	Chart	Table	Capital Goods
Pfizer	PFE	Chart	Chart	Table	Pharmaceuticals
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	Chart	Chart	Table	Pharmaceuticals
Procter & Gamble	PG	Chart	Chart	Table	Personal & Houseware
Rio Tinto	RTP	Chart	Chart	Table	Metals Mining
Toyota	TM	Chart	Chart	Table	Automotive
United Technologies	UTX	Chart	Chart	Table	Conglomerate

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.

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To follow the day-to-day progress of the buypside.com Pairs 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 $454.55 was invested (total of $10,000) in each of the 22 stocks at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2001.

Click chart to enlarge it.

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Today's date: Mar-20-2010.