Overview Of Value Stocks In The Consumer Cyclical Sector

Understanding Value Stocks

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.

Benzinga Insights has compiled a list of value stocks in the consumer cyclical sector that may be worth watching:

1. Marine Prods (NYSE:MPX) - P/E: 9.36
2. Kingsway Financial Servs (NYSE:KFS) - P/E: 2.58
3. Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) - P/E: 5.04
4. Graphic Packaging Holding (NYSE:GPK) - P/E: 8.85
5. Bath & Body Works (NYSE:BBWI) - P/E: 9.79

Marine Prods's earnings per share for Q2 sits at $0.42, whereas in Q1, they were at 0.34. Its most recent dividend yield is at 3.33%, which has decreased by 0.91% from 4.24% in the previous quarter.

Kingsway Financial Servs has reported Q2 earnings per share at $-0.06, which has decreased by 105.71% compared to Q1, which was 1.05. This quarter, Toll Brothers experienced an increase in earnings per share, which was $2.85 in Q2 and is now $3.73. The company's most recent dividend yield sits at 1.08%, which has decreased by 0.04% from 1.12% last quarter.

Graphic Packaging Holding saw a decrease in earnings per share from 0.77 in Q1 to $0.66 now. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 1.66%, which has increased by 0.09% from last quarter's yield of 1.57%.

Bath & Body Works saw an increase in earnings per share from 0.33 in Q1 to $0.4 now. Its most recent dividend yield is at 2.15%, which has decreased by 0.33% from 2.48% in the previous quarter.

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.