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Rating Gold And Consumer Staples With ValuEngine.com

May 04, 2012 3:18 PM ETEL, ABEV, NWS, MATV, BGS, PPC, SAM, SPGI, SFD, RAI, AM-OLD, STEI, BEAM-OLD, MNST, HAIN, MSFT, GOLD, NSU-OLD, AUQ, HMY, GFI, IAG, KGC, EGO, AU, NEM, AEM
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MARKET OVERVIEW

Index

started week

Thursday Close

4 day change

4 day change %

ytd

DJIA

13228.39

13206.6

-21.79

-0.16%

8.09%

NASDAQ

3060.06

3024.3

-35.76

-1.17%

16.09%

RUSSELL 2000

825.47

806.59

-18.88

-2.29%

8.86%

S&P 500

1403.26

1391.57

-11.69

-0.83%

10.65%

Summary of VE Stock Universe

Stocks Undervalued

61.15%

Stocks Overvalued

38.85%

Stocks Undervalued by 20%

26.74%

Stocks Overvalued by 20%

15.54%

SECTOR OVERVIEW

Sector

Change

MTD

YTD

Valuation

Last 12-M Return

P/E Ratio

Aerospace

-1.96%

-1.69%

4.05%

11.45% undervalued

-9.46%

15.53

Auto-Tires-Trucks

-2.20%

-1.41%

8.42%

10.07% undervalued

-11.39%

16.74

Basic Materials

-1.86%

-2.73%

2.23%

8.57% undervalued

-29.03%

21.02

Business Services

-0.96%

-1.27%

7.76%

4.31% undervalued

-2.24%

27.07

Computer and Technology

-1.65%

-1.27%

12.96%

10.77% overvalued

-12.03%

40.17

Construction

-1.29%

-0.83%

18.33%

3.04% undervalued

-12.86%

38.16

Consumer Discretionary

-1.29%

-0.78%

15.97%

2.08% overvalued

-4.22%

27.77

Consumer Staples

-0.76%

-0.94%

6.26%

7.55% overvalued

-9.13%

24.71

Finance

-0.70%

-0.66%

13.93%

10.53% overvalued

-2.35%

23.86

Industrial Products

-1.42%

-1.51%

7.91%

7.47% overvalued

-12.75%

24.03

Medical

-1.03%

-0.82%

11.45%

13.40% overvalued

-13.58%

44.84

Multi-Sector Conglomerates

-0.41%

-0.38%

10.95%

4.14% overvalued

-8.25%

16.92

Oils-Energy

-1.70%

-2.54%

-1.72%

6.24% undervalued

-24.55%

28.35

Retail-Wholesale

-1.32%

-0.71%

11.82%

13.40% overvalued

7.37%

23.22

Transportation

-1.11%

-0.74%

10.23%

5.91% overvalued

-17.21%

16.91

Utilities

-0.75%

-1.80%

0.42%

3.07% overvalued

-7.29%

26.61

Sector Talk-Consumer Staples

Below, we present the latest data on leading Consumer Staples Sector Stocks from our Institutional software package (VEI). These results were filtered by market price and volume--no results below 3$/share or less than 100k shares/day volume.

Top-Five Consumer Staples Sector Stocks--Short-Term Forecast Returns

Ticker

Name

Mkt Price

Valuation(%)

Last 12-M Retn(%)

EL

ESTEE LAUDER

64.15

3.1

34.66

ABV

AMBEV-PR ADR

42.17

22.22

36.78

NWS

NEWS CORP INC

19.99

-9.36

8.23

SWM

SCHWEITZER-MAUD

69.83

-16.18

41.1

BGS

B&G FOODS CL-A

21.75

-10.44

27.57

Top-Five Consumer Staples Sector Stocks--Long-Term Forecast Returns

Ticker

Name

Mkt Price

Valuation(%)

Last 12-M Retn(%)

EL

ESTEE LAUDER

64.15

3.1

34.66

ABV

AMBEV-PR ADR

42.17

22.22

36.78

PPC

PILGRIMS PRIDE

6.87

14.08

23.34

BGS

B&G FOODS CL-A

21.75

-10.44

27.57

SAM

BOSTON BEER INC

110.65

2

19.96

Top-Five Consumer Staples Sector Stocks--Composite Score

Ticker

Name

Mkt Price

Valuation(%)

Last 12-M Retn(%)

SWM

SCHWEITZER-MAUD

69.83

-16.18

41.1

MHP

MCGRAW-HILL COS

49.25

-24.52

24.84

SFD

SMITHFIELD FOOD

20.27

-26.84

-11.64

NWS

NEWS CORP INC

19.99

-9.36

8.23

RAI

REYNOLDS AMER

40.54

-3.65

14.71

Top-Five Consumer Staples Sector Stocks--Most Overvalued

Ticker

Name

Mkt Price

Valuation(%)

Last 12-M Retn(%)

AM

AMER GREETINGS

15.53

300

-32.27

STEI

STEWART ENTRP A

6.27

300

-20.43

BEAM

BEAM INC

59.92

58.22

-5.8

MNST

MONSTER BEVERAG

67.07

42.44

111.38

HAIN

HAIN CELESTIAL

47.31

40.03

42.2

Mining and Gold

Here are the VE datapoints for buy-rated gold mining stocks:

Ticker

Name

Mkt Price

Valuation(%)

Last 12-M Retn(%)

Forecast 1-Month Retn(%)

Forecast 1-Yr Retn(%)

P/E Ratio

ABX

BARRICK GOLD CP

37.98

-25.37

-21.01

1.9

12.08

7.87

NSU

NEVSUN RESOURCS

3.5

-20.6

-37.16

1.24

12.03

4.73

VGZ

VISTA GOLD CORP

2.86

-53.57

-7.14

1.8

10.1

7.53

JAG

JAGUAR MINING

2.28

-70.67

-56.41

2.64

6.12

11.69

AUQ

AURICO GOLD INC

8.7

-13.84

-12.39

0.94

5.78

11.25

HMY

HARMONY GOLD

9.25

-27.96

-35.81

1.16

6.14

11.86

GFI

GOLD FIELDS-ADR

12.41

-27.45

-24

1.57

10.35

7.05

IAG

IAMGOLD CORP

11.75

-38.79

-39.4

1.15

8.24

10.9

KGC

KINROSS GOLD

8.54

-55.78

-42.18

1.93

9.56

10.29

EGO

ELDORADO GOLD

13.11

-36.46

-21.12

1.19

8.04

19.4

AU

ANGLOGOLD LTD

32.77

-33.69

-31.17

1.75

10.85

7.76

GG

GOLDCORP INC

36.39

-31.26

-28.2

1.67

9.38

16.2

NEM

NEWMONT MINING

45.59

-28.12

-17.26

1.73

10.32

10.02

AEM

AGNICO EAGLE

38.4

-40.47

-39.56

0.74

5.88

22.54

GOLD

RANDGOLD RSRCS

81.89

-23.21

0.15

1.28

8.12

15.79

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