When thinking about stocks with recession-resistant characteristics, a few key metrics come to mind. First are low-beta stocks. Beta measures how much a stock’s price moves compared to the overall market. A beta of 1 means that, on average, when the market went up 10% in a month, the stock also went up 10%. Conversely, if the market went down 10%, so did the stock. The stock market tends to fall in a recession. So, stocks with betas significantly less than one are likely to fall less than the market, raisin ...