[stawl-wert] 
| 1. | strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust. |
| 2. | strong and brave; valiant: a stalwart knight. |
| 3. | firm, steadfast, or uncompromising: a stalwart supporter of the U.N. |
| 4. | a physically stalwart person. |
| 5. | a steadfast or uncompromising partisan: They counted on the party stalwarts for support in the off-year campaigns. |
[stawl-wert] | a conservative Republican in the 1870s and 1880s, esp. one opposed to civil service and other reforms during the administrations of presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield. |
| stal·wart (stôl'wərt) adj.
[Middle English, alteration of stalworth, from Old English stǣlwierthe, serviceable, probably alteration of *statholwierthe, steadfast : stathol, foundation; see staddle + weorth, valuable; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.] stal'wart·ly adv., stal'wart·ness n. |
Stalwart
A description of companies that have large capitalizations and provide investors with slow but steady and dependable growth prospects.
Investopedia Commentary
The annual gain that would be viewed as the norm for investing in stalwarts is about 10% to 12%. Stalwarts will by no means become tenbaggers overnight, mainly because of their large capitalization, but they are usually a good source of fairly predictable returns.
Peter Lynch popularized this term in his book "One Up on Wall Street," where he shows that the price chart of a stalwart compares neither to a topographic map of Delaware nor to one of Mount Everest, but assumes a place somewhere in the middle.
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