Losses for food sector

Lately most stocks of the food sector are under selling pressure. Over the past 3 months the sector is 2 percent lower. Investors who bought the average share of the sector in 2000 now have a stunning profit of around 882 percent. Since 2012 the sector trades 97 percent higher. On average the sector delivers a high dividend yield of 1 percent.

Returns food sector

In terms of their price/earnings ratios the American food producers are 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 relatively high CAPE-ratio of 52. Shares with the higher CAPE-ratios are Marine Harvest , Wessanen and Calavo Growers. Leroy Seafood, Salmar are Premier Oil among the ones with the lower CAPE-ratios.

Further we see that the European food sector has a CAPE of 12 and the US sector of 7. Both the US and the European sector gained the past 12 months.

The European stocks in this sector are around 12 percent higher and the US's are 7 percent higher.

The European food producers now deliver more dividends then the US ones. These in Europe now yield 0,76 percent and these in US 0,52 percent. 0, 0 and 0 have now the highest dividend returns (in case the dividends per share are unchanged).

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