The Consumer Discretionary sector ranks fourth out of the ten sectors as detailed in my Sector Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. It gets my Neutral rating, which is based on aggregation of ratings of 16 ETFs and 21 mutual funds in the Consumer Discretionary sector as of July 9, 2014.
Figure 1 compares 10 companies that make common kitchen products on the basis of return on invested capital (ROIC) and price to economic book value (PEBV).
This week’s Danger Zone pick features a consumer goods company with inflated earnings growth and an unrealistic valuation.
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Trading stocks sometimes feels like a very modern phenomenon, so it’s easy to forget that some of the companies we’re investing in go back a century or more.
Valeant has been guilty of some dubious assertions in its attempts to defend itself from claims that its business model is nothing more than a rollup scheme and that its stock is overvalued.
Icahn might be able to engineer a sale to DG or someone else that will earn himself and other shareholders a quick profit, but unlocking long-term value will be a much more difficult task.
A good way to navigate a Dangerous-rated sector such as Health Care is through the use of an ETF pair trade (i.e. long/short strategy). This ETF pair trade can be used to capitalize upon the volatility of the Health Care sector for both upside or downside.