Against the current: Markets slid, yet New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc., Beyond Meat, Inc., TAL Education Group went up and made this list of yesterday's top consumer staples stocks gainers.
Leading equity indices in the US declined as after dropping 0.59%, Nasdaq closed at 10,984. S&P 500 was down 0.16% before closing the session at 3,957.63.
Amid the market gloom, United States ADP Nonfarm Employment Change (Nov) released today at 13:15 UTC with a figure of 127,000, while the previous figure was 239,000.
Even though markets fell yesterday, some consumer staples stocks managed to go up. Have a look at these top gainers.
Natura &Co | +2.59% at $4.35
The global personal care cosmetics group reached a significant high of $12.03 around 7 months ago but has lost 64.75% since then. So far in 2022, it has been under-performing the Nasdaq by 9.42%. The company's market cap is $2.99 billion with an average daily volume of 790,486 shares. Natura &Co expected revenue of $2 billion with an EPS of -5 cents.
TAL Education | +3.59% at $5.77
Bullish sentiment helped the Chinese education and tutoring company to hammer out a noteworthy $5.63 to $5.89 range yesterday, and finally closing at $5.77 to end the session. Yesterday's trading volume was 4 million shares which is slightly below the 21-day average of 4.92 million.
New Oriental Education & Technology | +4.41% in pre-market trade with 58 minutes until open
After finishing Monday at $25, the Chinese education business went up by 7.88% yesterday and remained at the $26.97 level.
Beyond Meat | +4.11% at $12.92
After closing at $12.41 on Monday, Beyond Meat rallied as high as $13 but ended the day at $12.92.