Sentences with phrase «as consumer staple companies»

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It's not unusual to see companies trading well above 20 times earnings these days, especially more bond - like businesses, such as dividend - paying consumer staples, utilities and other defensive equities, says Arthur Heinmaa, chief investment officer at Cidel Asset Management.

At present, the consumer staples sector contains six industries and includes companies such as Procter & Gamble, Kroger, and Anheuser Busch InBev.

Additionally, we believe the more defensive sectors of the equity market such as consumer staples could underperform, along with some telecommunication companies and utilities, where returns are heavily regulated.

I wanted to add more consumer staples and since I've already have beverage companies such as PEP (PepsiCo) and KO (Coca Cola), I wanted to buy an alcohol beverage company.

For stocks, it's important to have stocks in your portfolio from a large variety of companies, including companies in different sectors or industries, such as consumer staples or materials; from companies of different sizes, such as large - cap or small - cap stocks; from companies in different countries and from companies that either have growth potential or good dividend yields.

The consumer staples sector may become more appealing as investors look to invest in companies with stable earnings, growth potential and generous dividends.

In the fourth quarter of 2000, as the market began to forecast the coming profits recession, consumer staple stocks - the shares of companies with stable revenues and earnings - rose 21 percent, the best performing group during that period.

In one of my latest blogposts, I wrote about the importance of putting rock solid defensive companies such as consumer staples at the core of the investment portfolio in order to build an ever growing passive income machine as a dividend growth investor.

Companies in the consumer staples sector may not pay a yield as high as those in the utilities sector but growth is usually slightly higher.

Other similar things might be investing in supermarkets and «consumer staples» (because if your weekly shopping basket inflates, their shares and divis probably will too) or investing in healthcare as a hedge against future healthcare costs inflating or investing in utilities as a hedge against utilities bills rising (I've yet to buy any but I quite like the idea of owning enough ~ 7 % yielding Centrica for the divis to cover the gas and electricity bills) or investing in travel and tourism companies as a hedge against holiday costs inflating.

The management team has implemented an effective hands - on investment approach to drive growth and efficiency in companies primarily in consumer sectors such as consumer staples, consumer discretionary, education and healthcare.

In general, I like consumer staples, utilities, pharma companies like JNJ, PG, KO, PM, SO, GSK, GILD as they are more predictable over a decent period of time and carry less volatility.

I have held CAT for many years and realize that it's a company / stock that goes through boom and bust cycles as it is more sensitive to economic activity than say, consumer staples.

I would guess large consumer staples companies continue to underperform, as fund managers transition to «growthier» names.

The company, Britain's largest retailer, announced earlier this week that it was cutting the price of a four pint (2.27 litres) bottle of milk from # 1.39 ($ 2.32, $ 1.69) to # 1 ($ 1.67, $ 1.22) as part of drive to reduce the amount paid by consumers for staples.

Scientists, consumer groups and bee keepers say the devastating rate of bee deaths is due at least in part to the growing use of pesticides sold by agrichemical companies to boost yields of staple crops such as corn.

Many companies have partnered with literary staples, such as Waterstones and WH Smith, to further increase their footprint and market e-readers directly to consumers.

This preference for growth manifested in the outperformance of both stable growers, like defensive consumer staple companies, as well as technology firms benefiting from secular trends.

For example, if you invest in equities, and the yield curve says to expect an economic slowdown over the next couple of years, you might consider moving your allocation of equities toward companies that perform relatively well in slow economic times, such as consumer staples.

It's not unusual to see companies trading well above 20 times earnings these days, especially more bond - like businesses, such as dividend - paying consumer staples, utilities and other defensive equities, says Arthur Heinmaa, chief investment officer at Cidel Asset Management.

The S&P 500 index includes companies in a variety of sectors, such as energy, industrials, information technology, healthcare, financials and consumer staples.

With some juicy valuations floating around there are a lot of comments about «quality» stocks, as though the discounted future cash flows of one business are worth exponentially more than the same comparable discounted future cash flows of an alternative company that isn't a consumer staple or discretionary.

To make matters even more uncomfortable for income investors, lower - for - longer interest rates have made safe haven companies such as utilities and consumer staples even more expensive relative to history.

That puts PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) in an excellent spot as one of the largest consumer staples companies in the world and primes them for continued future growth.

In addition to KMB, many other consumer staple companies are showing up with green buy indicators on our spreadsheet, and during the next month, we may add to current positions such as GIS (General Mills), KHC (Kraft Heinz), PEP (Pepsico), and of course, KMB (Kimberly - Clark).

And one example that I'd like to point out is Procter & Gamble, which clearly is viewed as a blue - chip consumer staple, and there is an expectation of stability in an investment like P&G, versus there's clearly an expectation of volatility in a company like Toyota, which being in the auto industry can be fairly cyclical and therefore fairly volatile.