Losses for health care eq. & services sector

Lately most stocks of the health care eq. & services sector are under selling pressure. Over the past 3 months the sector is 8 percent lower. Investors who bought the average share of the sector in 2000 now have a stunning profit of around 504 percent. Since 2012 the sector trades 195 percent higher. On average the sector delivers a moderate dividend yield of 1 percent.

Returns health care eq. & services sector

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The American health care companies are in terms of their price/earnings ratios cheaper than the European ones. Per US share investors pay now less the for the expected earnings per share. So it seems the markets expect less growth of them. The whole sector trades now on a quite huge CAPE-ratio of 42. Shares with the higher CAPE-ratios are Ambu, Cambian Group and Integra Lifesciences Holdings Corp. Biomerieux, Avon Products are Stroer Media among the ones with the lower CAPE-ratios.

The European health care eq. & services sector has a CAPE of 18 and the US's sector of . ,

Winners and losers health care eq. & services sector

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The EU stocks in this sector are around 18 percent higher and the US's are percent higher.

The European health care companies now deliver more dividends then the US ones. These in Europe now yield 0,26 percent and these in US 0,07 percent. 0, 0 and 0 have now the highest dividend returns (in case the dividends per share are unchanged).

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