Discount Variety Retailer Stocks

The following table includes well-known discount variety retailers. These cyclical stocks are best purchased on the upside of a price cycle.

Discount Variety Stocks
Company	Symbol	10-Year Moving Average Chart*	Price and PDI Chart	Multiyear Returns	Businesses
99 Cents Only Stores	NDN	Chart	Chart	Table	General merchandise
Big Lots	BIG	Chart	Chart	Table	Closeout merchandise
BJ's Wholesale Club	BJ	Chart	Chart	Table	Warehouse clubs
Dollar Tree	DLTR	Chart	Chart	Table	General merchandise
Family Dollar	FDO	Chart	Chart	Table	General merchandise
Tuesday Morning	TUES	Chart	Chart	Table	Closeout upscale merchandise

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.

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To follow the day-to-day progress of the Discount Variety 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 $1,666.67 was invested (total of $10,000) in each of the 6 stocks at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2001.

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Today's date: Mar-19-10.