Farm, Mining and Construction Equipment Stocks

Heavy equipment stocks are cyclical so they are best purchased at the start of a new upside price cycle. Use the Price Direction Indicator (PDI) to decide if prices are on the upside or downside.

Many of the stocks pay dividends.

Farm, Mining and Construction Equipment Stocks
Company	Symbol	Annual Dividend & Yield	Dividend Chart	Price and PDI Chart	Multiyear Returns	Equipment Type
AGCO	AGCO	None	None	Chart	Table	Agricultural
Astec Industries	ASTE	None	None	Chart	Table	Road making
Bucyrus International	BUCY	$0.10 (0.20%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Surface mining
Cascade	CAE	$0.12 (1.30%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Lift trucks
Caterpillar	CAT	$1.68 (2.80%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Construction, mining and more
CNH Global	CNH	None	None	Chart	Table	Agriculture and construction
Deere & Company	DE	$1.12 (1.90%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Agricultural and commercial
Hitachi	HIT	None	None	Chart	Table	Construction
JOY Global	JOYG	$0.70 (1.20%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Mining
Kubota	KUB	$0.78 (1.70%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Agriculture and construction
Manitowoc	MTW	$0.08 (0.60%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Cranes
Nacco Industries	NC	$2.07 (2.60%)	Chart	Chart	Table	Lift trucks
Terex	TEX	None	None	Chart	Table	Construction

NOTE: Dividend data and prices are from finance.yahoo.com as of Mar-20-10.

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 Farm, Mining and Construction Equipment 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 $1,000.00 was invested (total of $10,000) in each of the 10 stocks at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2001. NOTE: BUCY, HIT and JOYG are not included in the portfolio computations because of lack of price data.

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Today's date: Mar-20-10.