3 sample shares to hold on for the next 10 years

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With President Donald Trump who announces a wide range of rates, there can be an increased costs for a series of companies. However, if you choose companies with strong business canals and a long track record of increasing their income and profit, you will not go wrong. Such companies must also have large brand recognition and have catalysts who can help them to continue to grow despite the newly announced rates.

Here are three solid choices that you can have with confidence in the next 10 years or more.

Visa (NYSE: V) is a giant in the processing space of payment processing and helps to guarantee safe and useful transactions between suppliers and their customers. The company has a solid track record of growing its income, net income and free cash flow, as shown in the table below.

Data source: Visa. Fiscal years end on September 30.

Visa has also increased its dividend without failing every year since the first public offer in 2008. The last quarterly dividend amounted to $ 0.59, an increase of 13.5% on an annual basis compared to the $ 0.52 paid in the previous corresponding period. Against the last share price of Visa of $ 324.61, shares offer a progressive dividend yield of 0.7%.

The strong financial performance of Visa remained in the first quarter of the tax 2025. Turnover increased year on year by 10.1% to $ 9.5 billion, while business income rose by 4.7% to $ 6.2 billion. The net result continued to rise and increased by 4.7% to $ 5.1 billion. Free cash flow rose by 50.9% to $ 5.1 billion, with the powerful Free-Cash-Flow generation capacity of Visa.

The payment giant saw the total transactions rise by 9% year after year to 81.7 billion for the quarter, while the cross -border volume increased by 15% year after year. Visa had a total of 4.7 billion credit cards and payment passes at the end of last year, a clear indication of the widespread global reach of the company.

Visa is also constantly rolling out new products that provide benefits to customers, suppliers and traders. Earlier in April the company published three new products, Reimagined Authorize.net, Unified Checkout and Aric Risk Hub, which make accepting payments easier and safer.

Chris Newkirk, president of commercial and money movement solutions at Visa, is of the opinion that the company has a chance of $ 200 trillion to digitize and modernize payments between consumers, as well as business-to-consumer and business-to-business transactions. This enormous opportunity offers a large runway for Visa to continue to grow its income, profit and dividends for the near future.

Texas Roadhouse (Nasdaq: TXRH) Has a chain of 780 restaurants in 49 states and 10 foreign countries, with a variety of steaks, fries and Western food. Texas Roadhouse has grown impressively over the years and has increased over the past three years over the turnover, the net income and the free cash flow (see table below).

Data source: Texas Roadhouse.

The company also stated a quarterly dividend of $ 0.68 per share, an increase of 11.5% year in the year, and has increased its quarterly dividend since 2011 without a break. A total of 31 business restaurants and 14 franchiser restaurants were opened last year, with the company a positive comparable stores turnover of 8.5% of 8.5% of 8.5% of 8.5% of the company restaurants and 7.4% with the domestic franchise restaurants.

The management also approved a $ 500 million share purchasing program to improve the profit per share.

This year it looks clear for Texas Roadhouse. The company completed the acquisition of 13 domestic franchise restaurants for around $ 78 million on January 1, and the portfolio of restaurants continues to grow with the 800th restaurant under construction and planned to open later this year. In addition, comparable restaurant sales were positive at 2.9%during the first seven weeks of 2025. Texas Roadhouse is also planning to increase an average of 1.4% at the beginning of April to keep the inflation of raw materials costs.

The solid track record of the restaurant chain of increasing stores, income and dividends gives investors the confidence that it can continue to do so in the coming years.

Uipath (NYSE: Path) Offers robot automation services to help organizations become more efficient by streamlining processes and workflow. The Software-AS-A-SERVICE COMPANY has its turnover from subscription services steadily increasing from $ 508.8 million to $ 802 million from tax 2023 to tax 2025. The gross profit has also increased, while the gross margin has remained consistent above 80%, as shown in the table below.

Data source: Uipath. Fiscal years end January 31.

The company started with the generation of a positive free cash flow of tax 2024, and this cash flow has continued to grow in tax 2025. Uipath’s Annualized Renovation Rate (ARR) has also increased steadily, also from $ 1.04 billion in the second quarter of the number of $ 1,7 billion of the number of $ 1.67 billion number of the number of $ 100 over the year to 2,292, which shows good traction in terms of higher expenditure per customer.

Uipath offered an optimistic financial prospect for the tax 2026. Turnover is expected to grow to $ 1.53 billion by around 6.8% years on year (in the middle of the guidelines). The company also announced the acquisition of Peak AI Limited, an AI-Native Agent application company that can help to help retail and production companies to speed up their AI acceptance.

The company also works with Google Cloud to transform medical processes with the launch of its generative AI-based Uipath Medical Record Summarias agent. Together with Google’s Vertex AI, this solution creates a more efficient and accurate method for analyzing medical records.

It was back on the investor day of 2022 that management identified a large total addressable market of $ 93.2 billion, and in the last three years this market would probably have grown much as the generative AI came forward and digitization continues unabated. This large addressable market must give investors the confidence that Uipath can continue to grow steadily.

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