This article will be the Third in a series where I look for stocks I think will do well this upcoming year. In this article I am focusing on Consumer Goods stocks and to screen for them I will use the same criteria that I used in a previous article of mine for finding stocks in the financial sector. Because there was only 1 stock that matched the criteria below, and I wanted at least 2 , I had to slightly modify my criteria. The difference between the criteria I used to search for financial stocks and consumer goods was I lowered the dividend yield from 3% to 2%.
For my search I used the free stock screener from FinViz.com and used the following screener settings:
- I selected only stocks in the Conglomerates category.
- Companies with a market capitalization of $2 Billion or greater.
- A Price/Book ratio of less than 2.
- A PEG (Price/Earnings to Growth ratio) of less than 2.
- Positive Return on Assets.
- Positive Return on Equity.
- Positive EPS growth this year.
- Positive EPS growth quarter over quarter.
- Positive Sales growth this year.
- Positive Sales growth quarter over quarter.
- Long Term debt/Equity ratio of less than 1.
- Dividend Yield of greater than 2%.
Two companies met all of the above criteria, and they are listed below with a short business summary, PE ratio, and dividend yield from Yahoo Finance, and 1 year performance from FinViz.com:
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities and products in the United States and internationally. Archer-Daniels Midland has a PE of 8.91 and a dividend yield of 2.40%.
1 Year Performance: -6.32%
MeadWestvaco Corporation (MWV)
MeadWestvaco Corporation provides packaging solutions to the healthcare, beauty and personal care, food, beverage, tobacco, and home and garden industries worldwide. MeadWestvaco has a PE of 16.03 and a dividend yield of 3.30%.
1 Year Performance: +11.69%.
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