SECTOR PILLAR
Consumer Defensive Stocks 2026
Consumer Defensive covers food, beverages, household products and discount retail — companies people buy from in every economy, which makes the sector a portfolio anchor during recessions. The trade-off is lower growth and modest re-rating optionality. Pricing power and brand-portfolio depth determine which staples compound and which get squeezed by private-label retailers and shifting consumer tastes.
Top 10 by market cap
What moves this sector
Food, beverages, household, discount retail
All 99 Consumer Defensive stocks
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A
- Albertsons Companies, Inc. (ACI)
- Altria Group, Inc. (MO)
- Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM)
B
- Beauty Health Company (SKIN)
- BellRing Brands, Inc. (BRBR)
- Beyond Meat (BYND)
- BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, I (BJ)
- Bonduelle (BON.PA)
- Boston Beer Company, Inc. (The) (SAM)
- Brown Forman Inc (BF-B)
- Bunge Limited (BG)
C
- Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (CALM)
- Celsius Holdings, Inc. (CELH)
- Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT)
- Central Garden & Pet Company (CENTA)
- Church & Dwight Company, Inc. (CHD)
- Clorox Company (The) (CLX)
- Coca-Cola (KO)
- Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. (COKE)
- Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
- Colruyt (COLR.BR)
- ConAgra Brands, Inc. (CAG)
- Constellation Brands (STZ)
- Costco (COST)
- Coty Inc. (COTY)
- Coursera (COUR)
- Covista Inc. (CVSA)
D
- Darling Ingredients Inc. (DAR)
- Dollar General Corporation (DG)
- Dollar Tree, Inc. (DLTR)
E
- Edgewell Personal Care Company (EPC)
- elf Beauty (ELF)
- Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. (T (EL)
F
- Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO)
- Freshpet, Inc. (FRPT)
G
- General Mills, Inc. (GIS)
- Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE)
- Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. (GO)
H
- Hawesko Holding (HAW.DE)
- Henkel (HEN3.DE)
- Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL)
I
- Ingredion Incorporated (INGR)
- Interparfums (ITP.PA)
- Interparfums, Inc. (IPAR)
J
- J & J Snack Foods Corp. (JJSF)
- John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. (JBSS)
K
- Kenvue Inc. (KVUE)
- Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (KDP)
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB)
- Kraft Heinz (KHC)
- Kroger (KR)
L
- L'Oreal (OR.PA)
- Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (LW)
- Laureate Education, Inc. (LAUR)
- Leifheit (LEI.DE)
- Lotus Bakeries (LOTB.BR)
M
- Marr SpA (MARR.MI)
- McCormick & Company, Incorporat (MKC)
- Molson Coors Beverage Company (TAP)
- Mondelez International, Inc. (MDLZ)
- Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST)
N
- National Beverage Corp. (FIZZ)
- Nestle (NESN.SW)
- Newell Brands Inc. (NWL)
O
- Ollie's Bargain Outlet Holdings (OLLI)
- Ontex Group (ONTEX.BR)
P
- PepsiCo (PEP)
- Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO)
- Performance Food Group Company (PFGC)
- Philip Morris International Inc (PM)
- Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (PPC)
- Post Holdings, Inc. (POST)
- PriceSmart, Inc. (PSMT)
- Procter & Gamble (PG)
S
- Sipef (SIP.BR)
- Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (SFM)
- Strategic Education, Inc. (STRA)
- Stride, Inc. (LRN)
- Suedzucker (SZU.DE)
- Sysco Corporation (SYY)
T
- Target Corporation (TGT)
- The Andersons, Inc. (ANDE)
- The Campbell's Company (CPB)
- The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (CHEF)
- The Hershey Company (HSY)
- The J.M. Smucker Company (SJM)
- The Marzetti Company (MZTI)
- The Simply Good Foods Company (SMPL)
- Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. (TR)
- Tyson Foods, Inc. (TSN)
U
- United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI)
- Universal Corporation (UVV)
- Universal Technical Institute I (UTI)
- US Foods Holding Corp. (USFD)
V
- Vita Coco Company (COCO)
- Vital Farms, Inc. (VITL)