Sector Performance

Bespoke has a handy round-up of how the S&P 500 sectors have performed over the past few years:
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The important lesson for investors is to see how much less volatile the consumer staples are (these are the stocks that are the opposite of cyclicals). Staples tend to fall the least and rally the least.
Here’s a listing of the 41 stocks in the S&P 500’s Consumer Staples sector. I’ve included each stock’s dividend yield:

ADM Archer-Daniels-Midland 2.13%
AVP Avon Products 2.67%
BF-B Brown Forman 2.05%
CAG ConAgra Foods 3.27%
CCE Coca-Cola Enterprises 1.27%
CL Colgate-Palmolive 2.52%
CLX Clorox 3.12%
COST Costco 1.21%
CPB Campbell Soup 3.12%
CVS CVS Caremark 0.96%
DF Dean Foods 0.00%
DPS Dr Pepper Snapple 1.79%
EL Estee Lauder 0.83%
GIS General Mills 2.81%
HNZ H.J. Heinz 3.68%
HRL Hormel Foods 2.14%
HSY The Hershey Company 2.71%
K Kellogg 2.84%
KFT Kraft Foods 3.90%
KMB Kimberly-Clark 4.33%
KO Coca-Cola 3.31%
KR Kroger 1.65%
LO Lorillard 5.11%
MJN Mead Johnson Nutrition 1.78%
MKC McCormick & Company 2.65%
MO Altria Group 6.66%
PEP Pepsico 2.79%
PG Procter & Gamble 3.05%
PM Philip Morris 4.73%
RAI Reynolds American 6.69%
SJM J.M. Smucker 2.26%
SLE Sara Lee 3.19%
STZ Constellation Brands 0.00%
SVU SuperValu 2.34%
SWY Safeway 1.57%
SYY Sysco 3.24%
TAP Molson Coors 2.22%
TSN Tyson Foods 0.81%
WAG Walgreen 1.57%
WFMI Whole Foods Market 0.00%
WMT Wal-Mart Stores 2.23%

Posted by on April 27th, 2010 at 2:42 pm


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