Profits for semiconductor sector

Lately most stocks of the semiconductor sector are under selling pressure. Over the past 3 months the sector is 1 percent higher. Investors who bought the average share of the sector in 2000 now have a very huge profit of around 509 percent. Since 2012 the sector trades 197 percent higher. On average the sector yields a poor dividend yield of 0,5 percent.

Returns semiconductor sector

In terms of their price/earnings ratios the American semiconductor companies 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 quite huge CAPE-ratio of 38. Shares with the higher CAPE-ratios are Monolithic Power Systems, STMicroelectronics and Broadcom . United Microelectronics Corp, First Solar are SMA Solar among the ones with the lower CAPE-ratios.

Further we see that the European semiconductor sector has a CAPE of 8 and the US sector of . ,

Winners and losers semiconductor sector

The European stocks in this sector are around 8 percent higher and the US's are percent higher.

The European semiconductor companies now deliver more dividends then the US ones. These in Europe now yield 0,82 percent and these in US 0,12 percent. 0, 0 and 0 have now the highest dividend returns (in case the dividends per share are unchanged).

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