3 High-Yield Deep-Values The Institutions Are Buying Now

 | Feb 15, 2022 12:39AM ET

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Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ:KHC), Reynolds Consumer Products (NASDAQ:REYN), and Newell Brands (NASDAQ:NWL) have more in common than their status as consumer-staples companies. Not only are they deep-values relative to the broad market and their industry group, they give a high yield, have safe distributions, an outlook for dividend growth, are in the midst of currently-successful growth initiatives, and the institutions are buying them.

In our view, that is a recipe for higher share prices because the only reason the institutions would be rotating into this sector is if they thought it would be moving higher. In a world where high-valued low-yielding, debt-laden growth companies are losing their value, that sounds like a great idea to us.

h2 1. Kraft Heinz - The Deepest Value And Highest Yield/h2

Kraft Heinz is the deepest value trading at 12.5X its earnings and yielding 4.6% with shares trading near $35. This company is also deep into a turnaround that we see leading the shares up by triple digits over the next few years.

The turnaround is centered on shedding underperforming assets, strengthening the balance sheet, and focusing on growth markets and labels the company can get behind. So far, those efforts have been paying off well with the company in the best position its been in since the merger seven years ago.

As for the institutions, this company is 61% institutionally-owned and ownership has been on the rise over the past year. The institutions have bought nearly 4.0% of the company in that time with 1.2% of the market cap purchased in the Q1 period of 2022 alone.

We think this trend will continue because it is a safer play, provides a yield well above the broad market and the10-year Treasury (which is going to be yielding more and more as the days go by).