5 Value Stocks To Watch In The Consumer Defensive Sector

What Defines a Value Stock?

A value stock is traditionally defined in terms of how investors in the marketplace are valuing that company's future growth prospects. Low P/E multiples are good base indicators that the company is undervalued and can most likely be labelled as a value stock.

Below is a list of notable value stocks in the consumer defensive sector:

1. Herbalife HLF - P/E: 8.04
2. Perdoceo Education PRDO - P/E: 7.96
3. Adecoagro AGRO - P/E: 8.46
4. Bunge Global BG - P/E: 8.15
5. Sunlands Technology STG - P/E: 1.21

Most recently, Herbalife reported earnings per share at $0.65, whereas in Q2 earnings per share sat at $0.74. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 1.71%, which has decreased by 1.82% from last quarter's yield of 3.53%.

Perdoceo Education saw an increase in earnings per share from 0.61 in Q2 to $0.64 now. This quarter, Adecoagro experienced an increase in earnings per share, which was $0.4 in Q2 and is now $0.83. Most recently, the company reported a dividend yield of 3.93%, which has increased by 0.21% from last quarter's yield of 3.72%.

Bunge Global has reported Q3 earnings per share at $2.99, which has decreased by 19.62% compared to Q2, which was 3.72. Its most recent dividend yield is at 2.49%, which has increased by 0.11% from 2.38% in the previous quarter.

Sunlands Technology's earnings per share for Q3 sits at $1.31, whereas in Q2, they were at 1.73.

The Significance: A value stock may need some time to rebound from its undervalued position. The risk of investing in a value stock is that this emergence may never materialize.