Sentences with phrase «while consumer staples companies»

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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

Looking at the sector - wide performance of Corporate America in the second quarter of this year, more than 80 percent of the companies in information technology, healthcare and the financial - services space reported higher than estimated EPS growth, closely followed by the consumer staples industry producing food, beverages, household articles, while about 60 - 70 percent of the companies listed under the energy, utilities and materials sectors reported better than expected EPS numbers.

While many companies in less economically sensitive industries, particularly those in the consumer staples sector, meet our criteria for potential investment, we believe that investors are currently assigning excessively high valuations to companies that offer non-cyclical business models.

Top Consumer Stocks WMT +0.23 % MCD +0.22 % DIS +1.17 % CVS +1.17 % KO +0.70 % Consumer stocks were broadly higher Friday, with shares of consumer staples companies in the S&P 500 advancing about 1.0 % while shares of consumer discretionary Consumer Stocks WMT +0.23 % MCD +0.22 % DIS +1.17 % CVS +1.17 % KO +0.70 % Consumer stocks were broadly higher Friday, with shares of consumer staples companies in the S&P 500 advancing about 1.0 % while shares of consumer discretionary Consumer stocks were broadly higher Friday, with shares of consumer staples companies in the S&P 500 advancing about 1.0 % while shares of consumer discretionary consumer staples companies in the S&P 500 advancing about 1.0 % while shares of consumer discretionary consumer discretionary firms in

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Shares of consumer staples companies make up nearly 25 % while shares of technology companies make up less than 2 % of the index.