Megacaps have the highest dividends in the food & drug sector

There is a low diversification of 12 months returns within the supermarkets. The sector is around 5 percent higher since February. Among the winners we find Kodiak Sciences, Silence Therapeutics and Avita Medical. Relatively big losses are for Mologen AG, OpGen and Inflarx NV.

Core figures supermarkets

The winners in this sector are the large caps, while microcaps are mostly among the less performers.

Lowest PE-ratios supermarkets

Regarding the price/earnings-ratios we see a uniform palette. The midcaps are with the price/earnings-ratio of 20 the most expensive. The megacaps are the cheapest and trade at 11 times the earnings per share. Diaceutics, Abcam and Genus are the stocks with the highest ratios. Stocks with the lowest ratios are Endo International, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals and Mylan NV.

Highest dividend yields supermarkets

The sector's average dividend yield is with 2,9 percent relatively high. Stocks now high dividend yields now are Abbvie, Gilead Sciences and Pfizer.

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