1 Industrials Stock to Own for Decades and 2 Facing Challenges

Even if they go mostly unnoticed, industrial businesses are the backbone of our country. But they are at the whim of volatile macroeconomic factors that influence capital spending (like interest rates), and the industry has underperformed the market over the past six months as its 1.8% return lagged the S&P 500 by 9.3 percentage points.