The companies under the Consumer Staples sector sell relatively low-priced products that consumers use frequently in their daily lives, including food, beverages and products for personal hygiene or household cleaning. The purchase of these necessities is generally stable over time, irrespective of the spending patterns or whether the economy is expanding or contracting. This is a defensive sector, as the outlook for its companies would not change much with the economic cycle. We have seen that lately, as these companies have been playing their role despite concerns about the prolonged weak U.S. economy, the debt crisis in Europe and the slowdown in China. Consumer staples stocks have outperformed the S&P 500 as a whole in the year-to-date and trailing 52-week periods, up +9% and +18.4% in the YTD and trailing
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