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With President Donald Trump announcing a wide set of tariffs, there could be a higher costs to a range of companies. However, if you choose businesses with strong business ditches, and a long history of growing their revenue and profits, then you will not go wrong. Such businesses should also gain great brand recognition and have catalysts that can help them continue to grow despite the newly announced tariffs.
Here are three solid options that you can confidently own for the next 10 years or more.
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Visa(NYSE: V) is a giant in the payment processing space, helping to ensure safe and convenient transactions between vendors and their customers. The company has a solid track record of growing its revenue, net income, and free cash flow, as shown in the table below.
Metric
2022
2023
2024
Revenue (in billions)
$ 29.3
$ 32.7
$ 35.9
Operating income (in billions)
$ 18.8
$ 21.0
$ 23.6
Net income (in billions)
$ 14.9
$ 17.3
$ 19.7
Free cash flow (in billions)
$ 17.9
$ 19.7
$ 18.9
Data Source: Visa. End of financial years September 30.
Visa has also increased its dividend without fail each year since its initial public offer in 2008. The latest quarterly dividend was $ 0.59, a 13.5% year-on-year increase from the $ 0.52 paid out in the previous equivalent. In Visa's latest share price of $ 324.61, shares provide a forward dividend product of 0.7%.
Visa's strong financial performance continued in the first quarter of financial 2025. Revenue rose 10.1% year -on -year to $ 9.5 billion in operating income up 4.7% to $ 6.2 billion. Net income continued to climb, increasing by 4.7% to $ 5.1 billion. Free cash flow jumped 50.9% to $ 5.1 billion, demonstrating the capacity of a strong Visa free cash flow.
The total transaction payments saw increased 9% year -on -year to 81.7 billion for the quarter while cross -border volume increased 15% year -on -year. Visa had a total of 4.7 billion credit and debit cards in question at the end of last year, a clear indication of the company's wide -ranging world reach.
Visa also continually introduces new products that deliver benefits to customers, vendors and traders. Earlier in April, the company released three new products, re -formulating authorive.net, Checkout United, and Aric Risk Hub, which makes payments easier and safer.
Chris Newkirk, Movement Solutions' Commercial and Silver President in Visa, believes the company has a $ 200 trillion opportunity to digitize and modernize consumer-flowing payments, as well as business-to-consumer and business-to-business transactions. This huge opportunity provides enough runner for Visa to continue to grow its revenue, profits and dividends as forecast.
Texas Roadhouse(NASDAQ: TXRH) Operates a chain of 780 restaurants in 49 provinces and 10 foreign countries, serving a variety of steaks, frying and Western food. Texas Roadhouse has grown strikingly over the years and has seen an increase across its revenue, net income, and free cash flow over the last three years (see table below).
Metric
2022
2023
2024
Revenue (in billions)
$ 4.02
$ 4.63
$ 5.40
Operating income (in millions)
$ 320
$ 354
$ 517
Net income (in millions)
$ 270
$ 305
$ 434
Free cash flow (in millions)
$ 266
$ 218
$ 399
Data Source: Texas Roadhouse.
The company also announced a quarterly dividend of $ 0.68 per share, up 11.5% year -on -year, and has increased its quarterly dividend without break since 2011. A total of 31 restaurants were opened by company and 14 franchise restaurants last year, with the business reporting on positive comparable shop sales of 8.5% in a company owned and 7.4% in the domester and 7.4% in the domester and 7.4% in the domester and 7.4% 7.4%.
Management also approved a $ 500 million stock repurchase program to improve earnings per share.
This year looks bright for Texas Roadhouse. The company completed 13 domestic franchise restaurants for approximately $ 78 million on January 1, and its portfolio of restaurants continues to grow with the 800th restaurant being built and slate to open later this year. In addition, similar restaurant sales during the first seven weeks of 2025 became positive at 2.9%. Texas Roadhouse also plans to increase menu prices by 1.4% on average in early April to keep up with the cost inflation of goods.
The solid history of the restaurant chain of increasing shops, revenue and dividends gives investors the confidence that it can continue to do so in the coming years.
Uipath(NYSE: Route) Provides robotic automation services to help organizations become more efficient by streamlining processes and workflows. The software-as-service company has been constantly growing its subscription services revenue from $ 508.8 million to $ 802 million from 2023 fiscal to 2025 fiscal. Gross profits have also increased while the gross edge has remained steady above 80%, as shown in the table below.
Metric
2023
2024
2025
Revenue (in billions)
$ 1.06
$ 1.31
$ 1.43
Gross profit (in millions)
$ 879
$ 1,112
$ 1,183
Profit
83%
85%
82.7%
Free cash flow (in millions)
($ 34)
$ 292
$ 306
Data Source: Uipath. End of financial years January 31.
The business began producing a positive free cash flow of 2024 financial, and this cash flow has continued to grow in 2025 financial. ARR, increased by 11.6% year -on -year to 2,292, showing good traction in higher spending per customer.
Uipath provided an optimistic financial forecast for financial 2026. Revenue is expected to grow about 6.8% year -on -year to $ 1.53 billion (at the center of its leadership). The company also announced the acquisition of Peak Ai Limited, a business of native agent applications that can help retail and manufacturing businesses accelerate their AI adoption.
The company is also working with Google Cloud to transform medical processes with the launch of its Uipath medical records agent based on AI. Along with Google's Vertex, this solution creates a more efficient and accurate method of medical record analysis.
Back on 2022 investor day the management noted a total market that can be addressed from $ 93.2 billion, and over the last three years this market would probably have grown much more as productive AI emerges and digitization remains unchecked. The large market that can be addressed should give investors the confidence that Uipath can continue to grow steadily.
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