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).
Not exact matches
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.
Other featured articles examine the prospects for a European
company that has hit on a winning formula and
consumer staples stocks that are worth a look.
They ranked low on the Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Index: Energy shares sank 5.9 %, on average, while materials sector stocks collectively shed 5.5 % of their value; among the nine
other equity sectors, only telecommunication services and
consumer staples companies posted larger losses.1
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.
I, on the
other hand, reach the conclusion that certain sectors of the economy are rarely prone to failure — conglomerates like 3M and Berkshire Hathaway, water utilities like Aqua America, electric utilities like The Southern
Company, diversified healthcare giants like Johnson & Johnson,
consumer staples like Coca - Cola and PepsiCo, housecare
companies like Colgate - Palmolive and Clorox, and energy supergiants like Exxon and Chevron, all have a very low individual chance of failure.
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.