Investor Uprising, the individual investor's no-nonsense resource for global business trends and investment ideas, today announced that the IU25 Index of 25 companies with strong fundamentals is up 12% to date in 2012, outperforming the S&P 500 index in its two-month long rally.

"Fundamentally strong companies are participating in this stock-market rally and we see the out-performance of the IU25 as proof that companies with good fundamentals make the best long-term investments," said R. Scott Raynovich, Editor In Chief of Investor Uprising, the creator of the index.

IU25 index companies are selected on the basis of strict, value-based financial criteria. For example, shares are only selected if the price/earnings (P/E) ratio is below or at least equal to the growth rate of the company.