2 Magnificent Dow Stocks You Can Confidently Buy in February, and 1 to Avoid

Among the Dow's 30 components are two historically cheap stocks with well-defined competitive advantages, as well as a highflier whose parabolic climb may not be sustainable.For more than 128 years, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI 0.30%) has served as Wall Street's "health" barometer. Though it began as an industrial stock-dominated index with 12 members in May 1896, it's comprised of 30 highly diverse, multinational companies today.While all 30 of the Dow's components share similar traits, su ...