A Look Into Consumer Defensive Sector Value Stocks

What is a Value Stock?

A value stock is traditionally defined in terms of how investors in the marketplace are valuing that company's future growth prospects. Low P/E multiples are good base indicators that the company is undervalued and can most likely be labelled as a value stock.

The following stocks are considered to be notable value stocks in the consumer defensive sector:

1. Sunlands Technology STG - P/E: 1.4
2. S&W Seed SANW - P/E: 5.04
3. Cal-Maine Foods CALM - P/E: 3.08
4. Fresh Del Monte Produce FDP - P/E: 8.87
5. Grove Collaborative Hldgs GROV - P/E: 0.24

Sunlands Technology's earnings per share for Q2 sits at $1.73, whereas in Q1, they were at 1.9. Most recently, S&W Seed reported earnings per share at $-0.07, whereas in Q2 earnings per share sat at $-0.13. This quarter, Cal-Maine Foods experienced a decrease in earnings per share, which was $6.62 in Q3 and is now $2.27. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 6.73%, which has decreased by 9.19% from 15.92% last quarter.

This quarter, Fresh Del Monte Produce experienced an increase in earnings per share, which was $0.55 in Q1 and is now $0.96. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 3.01%, which has increased by 0.22% from last quarter's yield of 2.79%.

This quarter, Grove Collaborative Hldgs experienced an increase in earnings per share, which was $-0.4 in Q1 and is now $-0.32.

The Significance: A value stock may need some time to rebound from its undervalued position. The risk of investing in a value stock is that this emergence may never materialize.