ConocoPhillips (COP)

[Timothy Smith]

Long-term investors are more concerned about the company's long-term, stable fundamentals that will ensure long-term capital gains, and luckily for investors, ConocoPhillips has plenty of these.

While investors may know ConocoPhillips as a stable firm that generates recurring, growing dividends, it is actually in the process of revving up its growth engines.

Even a large company such as ConocoPhillips can do some things to improve returns to investors via capital appreciation, and as investors can see, it is doing just that.