In that period, consumer sectors returned 13.5 percent, he said. “If you looked at buying the 20 percent from consumer staples with the highest shareholder yield, your average annual return went up to about 17.8 percent.”
Among O’Shaughnessy’s favorites were ConAgra Foods, with a dividend yield of almost 4 percent, and Cal-Maine Foods, which “actually has pretty decent momentum behind it.”
“We found that, really, the the sweet spot overall — if you’re not in just sectors but overall — marrying very, very good valuation factors with momentum, that’s a great way to look for great stocks on a both a short- to intermediate-term basis,” he said.
In light of Warren Buffet’s $10.7 billion IBM buy, O’Shaughnessy went bullish on the company. “IBM is one of our biggest holdings across all our strategies,” he said.
Even in tough economic times, O’Shaughnessy said, people still need to eat and drink.
“There are probably not three guys in a garage in Palo Alto, trying to think up a new formula to beat Coke,” he said. “There’s all sorts of people out there trying to beat Google.”
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