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The beverage industry is significantly undervalued versus historical averages, while tobacco and retail are overvalued. RSPS offers consumer staples exposure with better value and less company-specific risk than XLP, but also lower risk-adjusted returns and trading volumes. Four stocks are cheaper than their peers in July.

The Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF features a significantly lower expense ratio and larger assets under management than Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF provides a higher trailing dividend yield but holds a more concentrated portfolio of 34 stocks.

iShares U.S. Consumer Staples ETF offers a slightly lower expense ratio and has generated higher total returns over the past five years compared to Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF. Invesco's ETF uses an equal-weight methodology that reduces concentration risk relative to the market-cap-weighted iShares fund.

A smart beta exchange traded fund, the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF (RSPS) debuted on 11/01/2006, and offers broad exposure to the Consumer Staples ETFs category of the market.

If you're interested in broad exposure to the Consumer Staples - Broad segment of the equity market, look no further than the Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF (RSPS), a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on November 1, 2006.