Consumer Staples Stocks List

This page shows information about the 50 largest consumer staples stocks including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Philip Morris International. Learn more about consumer staples stocks.

#1 - Procter & Gamble

NYSE:PG
Stock Price: $156.89 (-$0.20)
Market Cap: $369.84 billion
P/E Ratio: 26.6
Dividend Yield: 2.40%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (12 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $164.82 (5.1% Upside)

The Procter & Gamble Company provides branded consumer packaged goods worldwide. It operates through five segments: Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and Baby, Feminine & Family Care. The Beauty segment offers conditioners, shampoos, styling aids, and treatments under the Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Pantene, and Rejoice brands; and antiperspirants and deodorants, personal cleansing, and skin care products under the Olay, Old Spice, Safeguard, Secret, and SK-II brands. The Grooming segment provides shave care products and appliances under the Braun, Gillette, and Venus brand names. The Health Care segment offers toothbrushes, toothpastes, and other oral care products under the Crest and Oral-B brand names; and gastrointestinal, rapid diagnostics, respiratory, vitamins/minerals/supplements, pain relief, and other personal health care products under the Metamucil, Neurobion, Pepto-Bismol, and Vicks brands. The Fabric & Home Care segment provides fabric enhancers, laundry additives, and laundry detergents under the Ariel, Downy, Gain, and Tide brands; and air care, dish care, P&G professional, and surface care products under the Cascade, Dawn, Fairy, Febreze, Mr. Clean, and Swiffer brands. The Baby, Feminine & Family Care segment offers baby wipes, taped diapers, and pants under the Luvs and Pampers brands; adult incontinence and feminine care products under the Always, Always Discreet, and Tampax brands; and paper towels, tissues, and toilet papers under the Bounty, Charmin, and Puffs brands. The company sells its products primarily through mass merchandisers, e-commerce, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores, department stores, distributors, wholesalers, specialty beauty stores, high-frequency stores, pharmacies, electronics stores, and professional channels, as well as directly to consumers. The Procter & Gamble Company was founded in 1837 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

#2 - Coca-Cola

NYSE:KO
Stock Price: $61.06 (+$0.14)
Market Cap: $264.04 billion
P/E Ratio: 25.1
Dividend Yield: 3.01%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (10 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $68.33 (11.9% Upside)

The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures, markets, and sells various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides sparkling soft drinks, sparkling flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and other beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as restaurants and convenience stores. The company sells its products under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Fanta Orange, Fanta Zero Orange, Fanta Zero Sugar, Fanta Apple, Sprite, Sprite Zero Sugar, Simply Orange, Simply Apple, Simply Grapefruit, Fresca, Schweppes, Thums Up, Aquarius, Ayataka, BODYARMOR, Ciel, Costa, Dasani, dogadan, FUZE TEA, Georgia, glacéau smartwater, glacéau vitaminwater, Gold Peak, Ice Dew, I LOHAS, Powerade, Topo Chico, AdeS, Del Valle, fairlife, innocent, Minute Maid, and Minute Maid Pulpy brands. It operates through a network of independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers, as well as through bottling and distribution operators. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

#3 - PepsiCo

NASDAQ:PEP
Stock Price: $183.98 (-$0.46)
Market Cap: $253.26 billion
P/E Ratio: 32.2
Dividend Yield: 2.71%
Consensus Rating: Hold (4 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $192.00 (4.4% Upside)

PepsiCo, Inc. manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells various beverages and convenient foods worldwide. The company operates through seven segments: Frito-Lay North America; Quaker Foods North America; PepsiCo Beverages North America; Latin America; Europe; Africa, Middle East and South Asia; and Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand and China Region. It provides dips, cheese-flavored snacks, and spreads, as well as corn, potato, and tortilla chips; cereals, rice, pasta, mixes and syrups, granola bars, grits, oatmeal, rice cakes, simply granola, and side dishes; beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods; ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and juices; dairy products; and sparkling water makers and related products. The company offers its products primarily under the Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, Aquafina, Emperador, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade Zero, Propel, Marias Gamesa, Ruffles, Sabritas, Saladitas, Tostitos, 7UP, Diet 7UP, H2oh!, Manzanita Sol, Mirinda, Pepsi Black, San Carlos, Toddy, Walkers, Chipsy, Kurkure, Sasko, Spekko, White Star, Smith's, Sting, SodaStream, Lubimy Sad, Pepsi, and other brands. It serves wholesale and other distributors, foodservice customers, grocery stores, drug stores, convenience stores, discount/dollar stores, mass merchandisers, membership stores, hard discounters, e-commerce retailers and authorized independent bottlers, and others through a network of direct-store-delivery, customer warehouse, and distributor networks, as well as directly to consumers through e-commerce platforms and retailers. The company was founded in 1898 and is based in Purchase, New York.

#4 - Philip Morris International

NYSE:PM
Stock Price: $97.12 (-$0.03)
Market Cap: $150.76 billion
P/E Ratio: 18.8
Dividend Yield: 5.28%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (8 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $111.40 (14.7% Upside)

Philip Morris International Inc. operates as a tobacco company working to delivers a smoke-free future and evolving portfolio for the long-term to include products outside of the tobacco and nicotine sector. The company's product portfolio primarily consists of cigarettes and smoke-free products, including heat-not-burn, vapor, and oral nicotine products primarily under the IQOS and ZYN brands; and consumer accessories, such as lighters and matches. It also offers wellness and healthcare products. Philip Morris International Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

#5 - Unilever

NYSE:UL
Stock Price: $52.13 (+$0.05)
Market Cap: $131.32 billion
Dividend Yield: 3.60%
Consensus Rating: Hold (1 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $46.00 (-11.8% Upside)

Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company. It operates through Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, Nutrition, and Ice Cream segments. The Beauty & Wellbeing segment engages in the sale of hair care products, such as shampoo, conditioner, and styling; skin care products including face, hand, and body moisturizer; and prestige beauty and health & wellbeing products, which includes the vitamins, minerals, and supplements. Personal Care segment offers skin cleansing products comprising soap and shower, deodorant and oral care products, such as toothpaste, toothbrush, and mouthwash products. Home Care segment engages in the sale of fabric care including washing powders and liquids, and rinse conditioners; and home and hygiene, fabric enhancers, water and air wellness products. Nutrition segment provides the sale of scratch cooking aids, which includes soups, bouillons, and seasonings; dressings products, such as mayonnaise and ketchup; and beverages and functional nutrition products including Horlicks and Boost, as well as tea products. Ice Cream segment offers ice cream products including in-home and out-of-home ice creams. It offers its products under the AXE, Bango, Ben & Jerry's, Cif, Comfort, Domestos, Dove, Equilibra, Hellmann's, Knorr, LUX, Lifebuoy, Liquid I.V., Love Beauty & Planet, Magnum, OLLY, OMO, Onnit, Rexona, Seventh Generation, SmartPants, Sunsilk, The Vegetarian Butcher, Vaseline, and Wall's brands. The company was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

#6 - Mondelez International

NASDAQ:MDLZ
Stock Price: $73.80 (+$0.40)
Market Cap: $100.40 billion
P/E Ratio: 24.4
Dividend Yield: 2.08%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (11 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $77.39 (4.9% Upside)

Mondelez International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and sells snack food and beverage products in the Latin America, North America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. It provides biscuits and baked snacks, including cookies, crackers, salted snacks, snack bars, and cakes and pastries; chocolates; and gums and candies, as well as various cheese and grocery, and powdered beverage products. The company's brand portfolio includes Oreo, Ritz, LU, CLIF Bar, and Tate's Bake Shop biscuits and baked snacks, as well as Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka, and Toblerone chocolate. It serves supermarket chains, wholesalers, supercenters, club stores, mass merchandisers, distributors, convenience stores, gasoline stations, drug stores, value stores, and other retail food outlets through direct store delivery, company-owned and satellite warehouses, third party distributors, and other facilities, as well as through independent sales offices and agents. The company was formerly known as Kraft Foods Inc. and changed its name to Mondelez International, Inc. in October 2012. Mondelez International, Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

#7 - Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV

NYSE:BUD
Stock Price: $56.50 (+$0.18)
Market Cap: $98.15 billion
P/E Ratio: 18.2
Dividend Yield: 1.08%
Consensus Rating: Hold (6 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $67.06 (18.7% Upside)

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV produces, distributes, markets, and sells beer and beverages. It offers a portfolio of approximately 500 beer brands, which primarily include Budweiser, Corona, and Stella Artois; Beck's, Hoegaarden, Leffe, and Michelob Ultra; and Aguila, Antarctica, Bud Light, Brahma, Cass, Castle, Castle Lite, Cristal, Harbin, Jupiler, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Victoria, Sedrin, and Skol brands. The company was founded in 1366 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

#8 - Diageo

NYSE:DEO
Stock Price: $171.46 (+$0.47)
Market Cap: $96.37 billion
Dividend Yield: 1.79%
Consensus Rating: Hold (2 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $3,893.33 (2,170.7% Upside)

Diageo plc, together with its subsidiaries, produces, markets, and sells alcoholic beverages. The company offers scotch, whisky, gin, vodka, rum, ready to drink products, raki, liqueur, wine, tequila, Canadian whisky, American whiskey, cachaca, and brandy, as well as beer, including cider and non-alcoholic products. It provides its products primarily under the Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Tanqueray, Baileys, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Crown Royal, Don Julio, Ciroc, Buchanan's, Casamigos, J&B, and Ketel One brands. The company operates in North America, Europe, Turkey, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 1886 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

#9 - Altria Group

NYSE:MO
Stock Price: $44.09 (-$0.15)
Market Cap: $78.24 billion
P/E Ratio: 11.6
Dividend Yield: 8.52%
Consensus Rating: Hold (1 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $46.00 (4.3% Upside)

Altria Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells smokeable and oral tobacco products in the United States. The company provides cigarettes primarily under the Marlboro brand; cigars and pipe tobacco principally under the Black & Mild brand; moist smokeless tobacco products and snus products under the Copenhagen, Skoal, Red Seal, and Husky brands; and on! oral nicotine pouches. It sells its tobacco products primarily to wholesalers, including distributors; and large retail organizations, such as chain stores. The company was founded in 1822 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

#10 - British American Tobacco

NYSE:BTI
Stock Price: $32.78 (+$0.09)
Market Cap: $66.08 billion
Dividend Yield: 8.50%
Consensus Rating: Hold (0 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: N/A

British American Tobacco p.l.c. engages in the provision of tobacco and nicotine products to consumers worldwide. It offers vapour, tobacco heating, and modern oral nicotine products; combustible cigarettes; and traditional oral products, such as snus and moist snuff. The company offers its products under the Vuse, glo, Velo, Grizzly, Kodiak, Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Rothmans, Camel, Natural American Spirit, Newport, Vogue, Viceroy, Kool, Peter Stuyvesant, Craven A, State Express 555 and Shuang Xi brands. It distributes its products to retail outlets. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

#11 - Colgate-Palmolive

NYSE:CL
Stock Price: $76.49 (+$0.16)
Market Cap: $63.23 billion
P/E Ratio: 42.5
Dividend Yield: 2.50%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (7 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $85.33 (11.6% Upside)

Colgate-Palmolive Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells consumer products worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Oral, Personal and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition. The Oral, Personal and Home Care segment offers toothpaste, toothbrushes, mouthwash, bar and liquid hand soaps, shower gels, shampoos, conditioners, deodorants and antiperspirants, skin health products, dishwashing detergents, fabric conditioners, household cleaners, and other related items. This segment markets and sells its products under various brands, which include Colgate, Darlie, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom's of Maine, Irish Spring, Palmolive, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Lady Speed Stick, Speed Stick, EltaMD, Filorga, PCA SKIN, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Murphy, Suavitel, Soupline, and Cuddly to a range of traditional and eCommerce retailers, wholesalers, and distributors. It also includes pharmaceutical products for dentists and other oral health professionals. The Pet Nutrition segment offers pet nutrition products for everyday nutritional needs under the Hill's Science Diet brand; and a range of therapeutic products to manage disease conditions in dogs and cats under the Hill's Prescription Diet brand. This segment markets and sells its products through pet supply retailers, veterinarians, and eCommerce retailers. Colgate-Palmolive Company was founded in 1806 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

#12 - Monster Beverage

NASDAQ:MNST
Stock Price: $57.51 (+$0.10)
Market Cap: $60.24 billion
P/E Ratio: 42.4
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (14 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $61.32 (6.6% Upside)

Monster Beverage Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in development, marketing, sale, and distribution of energy drink beverages and concentrates in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Finished Product, Concentrate, and Other. It offers carbonated non-carbonated energy drinks, ready-to-drink iced teas and juice drinks, lemonades, juice cocktails, single-serve juices and fruit beverages, ready-to-drink dairy and coffee drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks and single-serve still waters, and sodas that are considered natural, sparkling juices, and flavored sparkling beverages. The company sells its products to full service beverage bottlers/distributors, retail grocery and specialty chains, wholesalers, club stores, drug chains, mass merchandisers, convenience chains, health food distributors, food service customers, and the military; and concentrates and/or beverage bases to authorized bottling and canning operations. It provides its products under the Monster Energy, Monster Energy Ultra, Monster Rehab, Monster Energy Nitro, Java Monster, Punch Monster, Juice Monster, Muscle Monster, Espresso Monster, Monster Hydro Energy Water, Monster Hydro Super Sport, Monster Super Fuel, Monster Dragon Tea, Reign Total Body Fuel, and Reign Inferno Thermogenic Fuel, Reign Storm, True North, NOS, Full Throttle, Burn, Mother, Nalu, Ultra Energy, Play and Power Play (stylized), Relentless, BPM, BU, Gladiator, Samurai, Live+, Predator, and Fury brands. The company was formerly known as Hansen Natural Corporation and changed its name to Monster Beverage Corporation in January 2012. Monster Beverage Corporation was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Corona, California.

#13 - Estée Lauder Companies

NYSE:EL
Stock Price: $166.19 (-$1.95)
Market Cap: $59.40 billion
P/E Ratio: 55.2
Dividend Yield: 1.55%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (15 Buy Ratings, 9 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $243.46 (46.5% Upside)

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. manufactures, markets, and sells skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products worldwide. It offers a range of skin care products, including moisturizers, serums, cleansers, toners, body care, exfoliators, acne care and oil correctors, facial masks, cleansing devices, and sun care products; and makeup products, such as lipsticks, lip glosses, mascaras, foundations, eyeshadows, nail polishes, and powders, as well as compacts, brushes, and other makeup tools. The company also provides fragrance products in various forms comprising eau de parfum sprays and colognes, as well as lotions, powders, creams, candles, and soaps; and hair care products that include shampoos, conditioners, styling products, treatment, finishing sprays, and hair color products, as well as sells ancillary products and services. It offers its products under the Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, Bobbi Brown, La Mer, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin, Smashbox, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, Kilian Paris, Too Faced, Dr. Jart+, DECIEM, and The Ordinary brands. The company sells its products through department stores, specialty-multi retailers, upscale perfumeries and pharmacies, and salons and spas; freestanding stores; its own and authorized retailer websites; third-party online malls; stores in airports; and duty-free shops. The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

#14 - Constellation Brands

NYSE:STZ.B
Stock Price: $310.00
Market Cap: $57.19 billion
P/E Ratio: 1,000.0
Dividend Yield: 0.93%
Consensus Rating: N/A (0 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: N/A

Constellation Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces, imports, markets, and sells beer, wine, and spirits in the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and Italy. It provides beer primarily under the Corona Extra, Corona Premier, Corona Familiar, Corona Light, Corona Refresca, Corona Hard Seltzer, Modelo Especial, Modelo Negra, Modelo Chelada, Pacifico, and Victoria brands. The company offers wine under the 7 Moons, Cook's California Champagne, Cooper & Thief, Crafters Union, Kim Crawford, Meiomi, Mount Veeder, Ruffino, SIMI, The Dreaming Tree, Charles Smith, The Prisoner Wine Company, Robert Mondavi, My Favorite Neighbor, and Schrader; and spirits under the Casa Noble, Copper & Kings, High West, Mi CAMPO, Nelson's Green Brier, and SVEDKA brands. It provides its products to wholesale distributors, retailers, on-premise locations, and state alcohol beverage control agencies. Constellation Brands, Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Victor, New York.

#15 - Keurig Dr Pepper

NASDAQ:KDP
Stock Price: $33.62 (+$0.19)
Market Cap: $46.98 billion
P/E Ratio: 29.5
Dividend Yield: 2.38%
Consensus Rating: Hold (5 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $36.56 (8.7% Upside)

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. operates as a beverage company in the United States and internationally. It operates through four segments: Coffee Systems, Packaged Beverages, Beverage Concentrates, and Latin America Beverages. The Coffee Systems segment manufactures and distributes various finished goods related to its coffee systems, K-Cup pods, and brewers, as well as specialty coffee. This segment sells its brewers through third-party distributors and retail partners, as well as through its website at keurig.com. The Packaged Beverages segment engages in the manufacture and distribution of packaged beverages of company's brands; contract manufacturing of various private label and emerging brand beverages; and distribution of packaged beverages for partner brands. The Beverage Concentrates segment manufactures and sells beverage concentrates primarily under the Dr Pepper, Canada Dry, Schweppes, Crush, A&W, Sunkist, 7UP, SunDrop, Squirt, Big Red, Hawaiian Punch, and RC Cola brands. This segment also manufactures beverage concentrates into syrup. The Latin America Beverages segment manufactures and distributes carbonated mineral water, flavored carbonated soft drinks, bottled water, and vegetable juice products under the Peñafiel, Clamato, Squirt, Mott's, Dr Pepper, Crush, and Aguafiel brands. The company serves retailers, bottlers and distributors, restaurants, hotel chains, office coffee distributors, and end-use consumers. Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.

#16 - Hershey

NYSE:HSY
Stock Price: $225.65 (+$1.35)
Market Cap: $46.14 billion
P/E Ratio: 26.0
Dividend Yield: 1.81%
Consensus Rating: Hold (5 Buy Ratings, 11 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $261.67 (16.0% Upside)

The Hershey Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products and pantry items in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America Confectionery, North America Salty Snacks, and International. It offers chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products; gum and mint refreshment products, including mints, chewing gums, and bubble gums; pantry items, such as baking ingredients, toppings, beverages, and sundae syrups; and snack items comprising spreads, bars, snack bites, mixes, popcorn, and pretzels. The company provides its products primarily under the Hershey's, Reese's, Kisses, Jolly Rancher, Almond Joy, Brookside, barkTHINS, Cadbury, Good & Plenty, Heath, Kit Kat, Payday, Rolo, Twizzlers, Whoppers, York, Ice Breakers, Breath Savers, Bubble Yum, Lily's, SkinnyPop, Pirates Booty, Paqui, Dot's Homestyle Pretzels, and ONE Bar brands, as well as under the Pelon Pelo Rico, IO-IO, and Sofit brands. It markets and sells its products to wholesale distributors, chain grocery stores, mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, vending companies, wholesale clubs, convenience stores, dollar stores, concessionaires, and department stores. The company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

#17 - Archer-Daniels-Midland

NYSE:ADM
Stock Price: $85.85 (-$0.59)
Market Cap: $46.02 billion
P/E Ratio: 11.5
Dividend Yield: 2.06%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (6 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $99.27 (15.6% Upside)

Archer-Daniels-Midland Company procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities, products, and ingredients in the United States, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Ag Services and Oilseeds, Carbohydrate Solutions, and Nutrition. It originates, merchandises, stores, and transports agricultural raw materials, such as oilseeds and soft seeds. The company also engages in the agricultural commodity and feed product import, export, and distribution; and structured trade finance activities. In addition, it offers vegetable oils and protein meals; ingredients for the food, feed, energy, and industrial customers; crude vegetable oils, salad oils, margarine, shortening, and other food products; and partially refined oils to produce biodiesel and glycols for use in chemicals, paints, and other industrial products. Further, the company provides peanuts, peanut-derived ingredients, and cotton cellulose pulp; sweeteners, corn and wheat starches, syrup, glucose, wheat flour, and dextrose; alcohol and other food and animal feed ingredients; ethyl alcohol and ethanol; corn gluten feed and meal; distillers' grains; and citric acids. Additionally, the company provides natural flavors, flavor systems, natural colors, proteins, emulsifiers, soluble fiber, polyols, hydrocolloids, probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, and botanical extracts; and other specialty food and feed ingredients; edible beans; formula feeds, and animal health and nutrition products; and contract and private label pet treats and foods. It also offers futures commission merchant; commodity brokerage services; cash margins and securities pledged to commodity exchange clearinghouses; and cash pledged as security under certain insurance arrangements. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

#18 - Ambev

NYSE:ABEV
Stock Price: $2.91 (-$0.03)
Market Cap: $45.83 billion
P/E Ratio: 17.1
Dividend Yield: 4.14%
Consensus Rating: Buy (3 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $3.74 (28.5% Upside)

Ambev S.A., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and sale of beer, draft beer, carbonated soft drinks, other non-alcoholic beverages, malt, and food products. It offers beer primarily under the Skol, Brahma, Antarctica, Brahva, Budweiser, Bud Light, Beck, Leffe and Hoegaarden, Bucanero, Cristal, Mayabe, Presidente, Presidente Light, Brahma Light, Bohemia, The One, Corona, Modelo Especial, Stella Artois, Quilmes Clásica, Paceña, Taquiña, Huari, Becker, Cusqueña, Michelob Ultra, Busch, Pilsen, Ouro Fino, Banks, Deputy, Patricia, Labatt Blue, Alexander Keith's, and Kokanee brands. The company also provides carbonated soft drinks, bottled water, isotonic beverages, energy drinks, coconut water, powdered and natural juices, and ready-to-drink teas under the Guaraná Antarctica, Gatorade, H2OH!, Lipton Iced Tea, Fusion, Do Bem, Pepsi-Cola, Canada Dry, Squirt, Red Rock, Red Bull, Seven Up, Nutrl, Bud Light Seltzer, Palm Bay, and Mike's brands. It offers its products through a network of third-party distributors and a direct distribution system. The company was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil. Ambev S.A. operates as a subsidiary of Interbrew International B.V.

#19 - Kenvue

NYSE:KVUE
Stock Price: $23.35 (-$0.03)
Market Cap: $44.71 billion
Consensus Rating: Hold (4 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $28.11 (20.4% Upside)

Kenvue Inc. operates as a consumer health company worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Self Care, Skin Health and Beauty, and Essential Health. The Self Care segment offers cough, cold and allergy, pain care, digestive health, smoking cessation, and other products under the Tylenol, Nicorette, and Zyrtec brands. The Skin Health and Beauty segment provides face and body care, hair care, and sun and other care products under the Neutrogena, Aveeno, and OGX brand names. The Essential Health segment offers oral and baby, women's health, and wound care products under the Listerine, Johnson's, Band-Aid, and Stayfree brands. The company was incorporated in 2022 and is headquartered in Skillman, New Jersey. Kenvue Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

#20 - Kimberly-Clark

NYSE:KMB
Stock Price: $127.81 (+$0.27)
Market Cap: $43.22 billion
P/E Ratio: 26.4
Dividend Yield: 3.67%
Consensus Rating: Reduce (1 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $135.33 (5.9% Upside)

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets personal care and consumer tissue products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, and K-C Professional. The company's Personal Care segment offers disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, reusable underwear, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Little Swimmers, GoodNites, DryNites, Sweety, Kotex, U by Kotex, Intimus, Thinx, Poise, Depend, Plenitud, Softex, and other brand names. Its Consumer Tissue segment provides facial and bathroom tissues, paper towels, napkins, and related products under the Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Andrex, Scottex, Neve, and other brand names. The company's K-C Professional segment offers wipers, tissues, towels, apparel, soaps, and sanitizers under the Kleenex, Scott, WypAll, Kimtech, and KleenGuard brands. In addition, it sells household use products directly to supermarkets, mass merchandisers, drugstores, warehouse clubs, variety and department stores, and other retail outlets, as well as through other distributors and e-commerce; and away-from-home use products directly to manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, and public facilities, as well as through e-commerce. The company was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

#21 - Kraft Heinz

NASDAQ:KHC
Stock Price: $34.52 (+$0.06)
Market Cap: $42.40 billion
P/E Ratio: 13.5
Dividend Yield: 4.57%
Consensus Rating: Hold (3 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $42.54 (23.2% Upside)

The Kraft Heinz Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets food and beverage products in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and internationally. Its products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy products, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, and other grocery products. The company also offers spices and other seasonings. It sells its products through its own sales organizations, as well as through independent brokers, agents, and distributors to chain, wholesale, cooperative, and independent grocery accounts; convenience, value, and club stores; pharmacies and drug stores; mass merchants; foodservice distributors; institutions, including hotels, restaurants, bakeries, hospitals, health care facilities, and government agencies; and online through various e-commerce platforms and retailers. The company was formerly known as H.J. Heinz Holding Corporation and changed its name to The Kraft Heinz Company in July 2015. The Kraft Heinz Company was founded in 1869 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

#22 - General Mills

NYSE:GIS
Stock Price: $72.16 (+$0.80)
Market Cap: $42.23 billion
P/E Ratio: 16.7
Dividend Yield: 3.21%
Consensus Rating: Hold (6 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $82.67 (14.6% Upside)

General Mills, Inc. manufactures and markets branded consumer foods worldwide. The company operates through four segments: North America Retail; International; Pet; and North America Foodservice. It offers grain, ready-to-eat cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, refrigerated and frozen dough products, dessert and baking mixes, bakery flour, frozen pizza and pizza snacks, snack bars, fruit and salty snacks, ice cream and frozen desserts, nutrition bars, and savory snacks, as well as various organic products, including frozen and shelf-stable vegetables. It also manufactures and markets pet food products, including dog and cat food. The company markets its products under the Annie's, Betty Crocker, Bisquick, Blue Buffalo, Blue Basics, Blue Freedom, Bugles, Cascadian Farm, Cheerios, Chex, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, Cookie Crisp, EPIC, Fiber One, Fruit by the Foot, Fruit Gushers, Fruit Roll-Ups, Gardetto's, Go-Gurt, Gold Medal, Golden Grahams, Häagen-Dazs, Kitano, Kix, Lärabar, Latina, Lucky Charms, Muir Glen, Nature Valley, Nudges, Oatmeal Crisp, Old El Paso, Pillsbury, Progresso, Raisin Nut Bran, Total, Top Chews Naturals, Totino's, Trix, True Chews, Wanchai Ferry, Wheaties, Wilderness, Yoki, Reese's Puffs, Green Giant, and Yoplait trademarks. It sells its products directly, as well as through broker and distribution arrangements to grocery stores, mass merchandisers, membership stores, natural food chains, e-commerce retailers, commercial and noncommercial foodservice distributors and operators, restaurants, convenience stores, and pet specialty stores, as well as drug, dollar, and discount chains. In addition, the company operates ice cream parlors. General Mills, Inc. was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

#23 - Corteva

NYSE:CTVA
Stock Price: $53.37 (-$0.81)
Market Cap: $37.88 billion
P/E Ratio: 41.4
Dividend Yield: 1.10%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (14 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $71.13 (33.3% Upside)

Corteva, Inc. operates in the agriculture business. It operates through two segments, Seed and Crop Protection. The Seed segment develops and supplies advanced germplasm and traits that produce optimum yield for farms. It offers trait technologies that enhance resistance to weather, disease, insects, and herbicides used to control weeds, as well as food and nutritional characteristics. This segment also provides digital solutions that assist farmer decision-making with a view to optimize product selection, and maximize yield and profitability. The Crop Protection segment offers products that protect against weeds, insects and other pests, and diseases, as well as enhances crop health above and below ground through nitrogen management and seed-applied technologies. This segment provides herbicides, insecticides, nitrogen stabilizers, and pasture and range management herbicides. It serves agricultural input industry. The company operates in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Corteva, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

#24 - Sysco

NYSE:SYY
Stock Price: $73.53 (+$0.42)
Market Cap: $37.26 billion
P/E Ratio: 21.2
Dividend Yield: 2.70%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (8 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $86.91 (18.2% Upside)

Sysco Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the marketing and distribution of various food and related products primarily to the foodservice or food-away-from-home industry in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and internationally. It operates through U.S. Foodservice Operations, International Foodservice Operations, SYGMA, and Other segments. The company distributes frozen food, such as meat, seafood, fully prepared entrées, fruits, vegetables, and desserts; canned and dry food products; fresh meat and seafood products; dairy products; beverages; imported specialties; and fresh produce products. It also supplies various non-food items, including paper products comprising disposable napkins, plates, and cups; tableware consisting of China and silverware; cookware, which include pots, pans, and utensils; restaurant and kitchen equipment and supplies; and cleaning supplies. The company serves restaurants, hospitals and nursing homes, schools and colleges, hotels and motels, industrial caterers, and other foodservice venues. As of July 2, 2022, it operated 333 distribution facilities. Sysco Corporation was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

#25 - Brown-Forman

NYSE:BF.A
Stock Price: $71.77 (+$0.72)
Market Cap: $34.40 billion
P/E Ratio: 44.0
Dividend Yield: 1.15%
Consensus Rating: Hold (0 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: N/A

Brown-Forman Corporation manufactures, bottles, imports, exports, markets, and sells various alcoholic beverages. It provides spirits, wines, whiskey spirits, whiskey-based flavored liqueurs, ready-to-drink and ready-to-pour products, ready-to-drink cocktails, vodkas, tequilas, champagnes, brandy, bourbons, and liqueurs. The company offers its products primarily under the Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve, Canadian Mist, GlenDronach, BenRiach, Glenglassaugh, Old Forester, Early Times, Slane Irish Whiskey, Coopers' Craft, el Jimador, Herradura, New Mix, Pepe Lopez, Antiguo, Finlandia, Korbel Champagne, and Sonoma-Cutrer brands. It is also involved in the sale of used barrels, bulk whiskey, and wine; and provision of contract bottling services. The company serves retail customers and consumers through distributors or state governments; and retailers, wholesalers, and provincial governments directly. It has operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Mexico, and internationally. Brown-Forman Corporation was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

#26 - Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

NYSE:CCEP
Stock Price: $63.95 (-$0.05)
Market Cap: $29.21 billion
Dividend Yield: 1.71%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (2 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $69.52 (8.7% Upside)

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC, together with its subsidiaries, produces, distributes, and sells a range of non-alcoholic ready to drink beverages. It offers flavours, mixers, and energy drinks; soft drinks, waters, enhanced water, and isotonic drinks; and ready-to-drink tea and coffee, juices, and other drinks. The company provides its products under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Fanta, Sprite, Monster Energy, Coca-Cola Energy, Relentless, nalu, URGE, BURN, Kuli, REIGN, POWERADE, Appletiser, Schweppes, FINLEY, mezzo mix, Royal Bliss, Lift, Vio SCHORLE, Coca-Cola Signature Mixers, NORDIC MIST, smartwater, Chaudfontaine, AQUARIUS, VILAS del Turbon, BONAQUA, Apollinaris, Krystal, Honest, Costa Coffee, Fuzetea, CHAQWA, NESTEA, Capri-Sun, Oasis, Minute Maid, MER, and Tropico brands. In addition, it engages in the bottling and other operations. The company was formerly known as Coca-Cola European Partners plc and changed its name to Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC in May 2021. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC was founded in 1904 and is based in Uxbridge, the United Kingdom.

#27 - Church & Dwight

NYSE:CHD
Stock Price: $96.05 (+$0.55)
Market Cap: $23.63 billion
P/E Ratio: 53.4
Dividend Yield: 1.14%
Consensus Rating: Hold (6 Buy Ratings, 9 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $92.53 (-3.7% Upside)

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets household, personal care, and specialty products. It operates in three segments: Consumer Domestic, Consumer International, and Specialty Products Division. The company offers cat litters, carpet deodorizers, laundry detergents, and baking soda, as well as other baking soda based products under the ARM & HAMMER brand; condoms, lubricants, and vibrators under the TROJAN brand; stain removers, cleaning solutions, laundry detergents, and bleach alternatives under the OXICLEAN brand; toothbrushes under the SPINBRUSH brand; home pregnancy and ovulation test kits under the FIRST RESPONSE brand; depilatories under the NAIR brand; oral analgesics under the ORAJEL brand; laundry detergents under the XTRA brand; gummy dietary supplements under the L'IL CRITTERS and VITAFUSION brands; dry shampoos under the BATISTE brand; water flossers and showerheads under the WATERPIK brand; cold shortening and relief products under the ZICAM brand; oral care products under the THERABREATH brand; and acne treatment products under the HERO brand. Its specialty products include animal productivity products, such as MEGALAC rumen bypass fat, a supplement that enables cows to maintain energy levels during the period of high milk production; BIO-CHLOR and FERMENTEN, which are used to reduce health issues associated with calving, as well as provides needed protein; and CELMANAX refined functional carbohydrate, a yeast-based prebiotic. The company offers sodium bicarbonate; and cleaning and deodorizing products. It sells its consumer products through supermarkets, mass merchandisers, wholesale clubs, drugstores, convenience stores, home stores, dollar and other discount stores, pet and other specialty stores, and websites and other e-commerce channels; and specialty products to industrial customers and livestock producers through distributors. The company was founded in 1846 and is headquartered in Ewing, New Jersey.

#28 - McCormick & Company, Incorporated

NYSE:MKC
Stock Price: $86.97 (+$1.19)
Market Cap: $23.34 billion
P/E Ratio: 33.6
Dividend Yield: 1.78%
Consensus Rating: Hold (4 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $83.40 (-4.1% Upside)

McCormick & Company, Incorporated manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the food industry. It operates in two segments, Consumer and Flavor Solutions. The Consumer segment offers spices, herbs, and seasonings, as well as condiments and sauces, and desserts. This segment markets its products under the McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Lawry's, Cholula Hot Sauce, Gourmet Garden, Club House, and OLD BAY brands in the Americas; Ducros, Schwartz, Kamis, and LA Drogheria, and Vahiné brands in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; McCormick and DaQiao brands in China; and McCormick, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden brands in Australia, as well as markets regional and ethnic brands, such as Zatarain's, Stubb's, Thai Kitchen, and Simply Asia. It also supplies its products under the private labels. This segment serves retailers comprising grocery, mass merchandise, warehouse clubs, discount and drug stores, and e-commerce retailers directly and indirectly through distributors and wholesale foodservice suppliers. The Flavor Solutions segment offers seasoning blends, spices and herbs, condiments, coating systems, and compound flavors to multinational food manufacturers and foodservice customers. It serves foodservice customers directly and indirectly through distributors. McCormick & Company, Incorporated was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

#29 - Hormel Foods

NYSE:HRL
Stock Price: $40.71 (+$0.57)
Market Cap: $22.24 billion
P/E Ratio: 23.8
Dividend Yield: 2.69%
Consensus Rating: Reduce (0 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $43.71 (7.4% Upside)

Hormel Foods Corporation develops, processes, and distributes various meat, nuts, and food products to retail, foodservice, deli, and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Grocery Products, Refrigerated Foods, Jennie-O Turkey Store, and International & Other. It provides various perishable products that include fresh meats, frozen items, refrigerated meal solutions, sausages, hams, guacamoles, and bacons; and shelf-stable products comprising canned luncheon meats, nut butters, snack nuts, chilies, shelf-stable microwaveable meals, hashes, stews, tortillas, salsas, tortilla chips, and others. The company also engages in the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded pork, beef, poultry, and turkey products, as well as offers nutritional food products and supplements, desserts and drink mixes, and industrial gelatin products. It sells its products primarily under the SKIPPY, SPAM, Hormel, Natural Choice, Applegate, Justin's, Jennie-O, Café H, Herdez, Black Label, Sadler's, Columbus, Gatherings, Herdez, Wholly, Columbus, Planters, NUT-rition, Planters Cheez Balls, Corn Nuts, etc. brand names through sales personnel, independent brokers, and distributors. The company was formerly known as Geo. A. Hormel & Company and changed its name to Hormel Foods Corporation in January 1995. Hormel Foods Corporation was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Austin, Minnesota.

#30 - Kellogg

NYSE:K
Stock Price: $63.59 (+$0.13)
Market Cap: $21.77 billion
P/E Ratio: 25.4
Dividend Yield: 3.64%
Consensus Rating: Reduce (1 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $70.83 (11.4% Upside)

Kellogg Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets snacks and convenience foods. The company operates through four segments: North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia Middle East Africa. Its principal products include crackers, crisps, savory snacks, toaster pastries, cereal bars, granola bars and bites, ready-to-eat cereals, frozen waffles, veggie foods, and noodles. The company offers its products under the Kellogg's, Cheez-It, Pringles, Austin, Parati, RXBAR, Kashi, Bear Naked, Eggo, Morningstar Farms, Choco Krispies, Crunchy Nut, Nutri-Grain, Special K, Squares, Zucaritas, Sucrilhos, Pop-Tarts, K-Time, Sunibrite, Split Stix, Be Natural, LCMs, Coco Pops, Frosties, Krave, Rice Krispies Treats, Kashi Go, Crunchy Nut, Rice Krispies Squares, Incogmeato, Veggitizers, and Gardenburger brand names. It sells its products to retailers through direct sales forces, as well as brokers and distributors. Kellogg Company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan.

#31 - Clorox

NYSE:CLX
Stock Price: $162.93 (+$0.84)
Market Cap: $20.14 billion
P/E Ratio: 136.9
Dividend Yield: 2.88%
Consensus Rating: Reduce (1 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 7 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $150.38 (-7.7% Upside)

The Clorox Company manufactures and markets consumer and professional products worldwide. It operates through four segments: Health and Wellness, Household, Lifestyle, and International. The Health and Wellness segment offers cleaning products, such as laundry additives and home care products primarily under the Clorox, Clorox2, Scentiva, Pine-Sol, Liquid-Plumr, Tilex, and Formula 409 brands; professional cleaning and disinfecting products under the CloroxPro and Clorox Healthcare brands; professional food service products under the Hidden Valley brand; and vitamins, minerals and supplement products under the RenewLife, Natural Vitality, NeoCell, and Rainbow Light brands in the United States. The Household segment provides cat litter products under the Fresh Step and Scoop Away brands; bags and wraps under the Glad brand; and grilling products under the Kingsford brand in the United States. The Lifestyle segment offers dressings, dips, seasonings, and sauces primarily under the Hidden Valley brand; natural personal care products under the Burt's Bees brand; and water-filtration products under the Brita brand in the United States. The International segment provides laundry additives; home care products; water-filtration systems; digestive health products; grilling products; cat litter products; food products; bags and wraps; natural personal care products; and professional cleaning and disinfecting products internationally primarily under the Clorox, Ayudin, Clorinda, Poett, Pine-Sol, Glad, Brita, RenewLife, Ever Clean and Burt's Bees brands. The Clorox Company sells its products primarily through mass retailers; grocery outlets; warehouse clubs; dollar stores; home hardware centers; drug, pet and military stores; third-party and owned e-commerce channels; and distributors, as well as a direct sales force The company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

#32 - Tyson Foods

NYSE:TSN
Stock Price: $53.82 (-$1.23)
Market Cap: $19.14 billion
P/E Ratio: 58.5
Dividend Yield: 3.41%
Consensus Rating: Reduce (0 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $55.75 (3.6% Upside)

Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully cooked meats; raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products, including breaded chicken strips, nuggets, patties, and other ready-to-fix or fully cooked chicken parts; and supplies poultry breeding stock. It also manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats under the Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, State Fair, Aidells, and Gallo Salame brands. In addition, the company offers its products under the Tyson and ibp brands. It sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and food service operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.

#33 - International Flavors & Fragrances

NYSE:IFF
Stock Price: $63.78 (-$1.00)
Market Cap: $16.27 billion
Dividend Yield: 4.02%
Consensus Rating: Hold (6 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $87.79 (37.6% Upside)

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cosmetic active and natural health ingredients for use in various consumer products in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Greater Asia, North America, and Latin America. It operates through four segments: Nourish, Scent, Health & Biosciences, and Pharma Solutions. The Nourish segment offers natural and plant-based specialty food ingredients, such as flavor compounds; savory products that includes soups, sauces, meat, fish, poultry, snacks, etc.; beverages, such as juice drinks, carbonated or flavored beverages, spirits, etc.; sweets that includes bakery products, candy, cereal, chewing gum, etc.; and dairy products, such as yogurt, ice cream, cheese, etc. It also provides natural food protection ingredients consist of natural antioxidants and anti-microbials. Its Scent segment provides fragrance compounds, which include fine fragrances comprising perfumes and colognes, as well as consumer fragrances; fragrance ingredients comprising synthetic and natural ingredients that could be combined with other materials to create fragrance and consumer compounds; and cosmetic active ingredients consisting of active and functional ingredients, and delivery systems to support its customers' cosmetic and personal care product lines. The Health & Biosciences segment develops and produces enzymes, food cultures, probiotics, and specialty ingredients for food and non-food applications. Its Pharma Solutions segment produces and sells cellulosics and seaweed-based pharma excipients. The company sells its products primarily to manufacturers of perfumes and cosmetics, hair and other personal care products, soaps and detergents, cleaning products, dairy, meat and other processed foods, beverages, snacks and savory foods, sweet and baked goods, dietary supplements, infant and elderly nutrition, functional food, and pharmaceutical excipients and oral care products. International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. was founded in 1833 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

#34 - J. M. Smucker

NYSE:SJM
Stock Price: $148.15 (+$1.66)
Market Cap: $15.12 billion
Dividend Yield: 2.74%
Consensus Rating: Reduce (2 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $154.42 (4.2% Upside)

The J. M. Smucker Company manufactures and markets branded food and beverage products worldwide. It operates in three segments: U.S. Retail Pet Foods, U.S. Retail Coffee, and U.S. Retail Consumer Foods. The company offers mainstream roast, ground, single serve, and premium coffee; peanut butter and specialty spreads; fruit spreads, toppings, and syrups; jelly products; nut mix products; shortening and oils; frozen sandwiches and snacks; pet food and pet snacks; and foodservice hot beverage, foodservice portion control, and flour products, as well as dog and cat food, frozen handheld products, juices and beverages, and baking mixes and ingredients. It provides its products under the Meow Mix, Milk-Bone, Pup-Peroni, Canine Carry Outs, Folgers, Café Bustelo, Dunkin', Folgers, Café Bustelo, 1850, Jif, Smucker's, Smucker's Uncrustables, Robin Hood, and Five Roses. The company sells its products through direct sales and brokers to food retailers, club stores, discount and dollar stores, online retailers, pet specialty stores, natural foods stores and distributors, drug stores, military commissaries, and mass merchandisers. Smucker Company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Orrville, Ohio.

#35 - Conagra Brands

NYSE:CAG
Stock Price: $31.28 (+$0.06)
Market Cap: $14.92 billion
P/E Ratio: 22.0
Dividend Yield: 4.36%
Consensus Rating: Hold (4 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $38.25 (22.3% Upside)

Conagra Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a consumer packaged goods food company primarily in the United States. The company operates through Grocery & Snacks, Refrigerated & Frozen, International, and Foodservice segments. The Grocery & Snacks segment primarily offers shelf stable food products through various retail channels. The Refrigerated & Frozen segment provides temperature-controlled food products through various retail channels. The International segment offers food products in various temperature states through retail and foodservice channels outside of the United States. The Foodservice segment offers branded and customized food products, including meals, entrees, sauces, and various custom-manufactured culinary products packaged for restaurants and other foodservice establishments. The company sells its products under the Birds Eye, Marie Callender's, Duncan Hines, Healthy Choice, Slim Jim, Reddi-wip, Angie's, BOOMCHICKAPOP, Duke's, Earth Balance, Gardein, and Frontera brands. The company was incorporated in 1919 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

#36 - Lamb Weston

NYSE:LW
Stock Price: $99.33 (-$1.09)
Market Cap: $14.47 billion
P/E Ratio: 14.4
Dividend Yield: 1.09%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (3 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $119.40 (20.2% Upside)

Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. produces, distributes, and markets value-added frozen potato products worldwide. It operates through four segments: Global, Foodservice, Retail, and Other. The company offers frozen potatoes, commercial ingredients, and appetizers under the Lamb Weston brand, as well as under various customer labels. The company also offers its products under its owned or licensed brands, such as Grown in Idaho and Alexia, and other licensed brands, as well as under retailers' brands. In addition, it engages in the vegetable and dairy businesses. The company serves retail and foodservice customers; and grocery, mass merchants, club, and specialty retailers; and businesses, educational institutions, independent restaurants, regional chain restaurants, and convenience stores. Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 1950 and is headquartered in Eagle, Idaho.

#37 - Molson Coors Beverage

NYSE:TAP
Stock Price: $64.61 (-$0.24)
Market Cap: $13.97 billion
P/E Ratio: 403.8
Dividend Yield: 2.52%
Consensus Rating: Hold (4 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 4 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $61.88 (-4.2% Upside)

Molson Coors Beverage Company manufactures, markets, and sells beer and other malt beverage products under various brands in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers flavored malt beverages including hard seltzers, craft, and ready to drink beverages. It provides its products under Aspall Cider, Blue Moon, Coors Original, Hop Valley brands, Leinenkugel's, Miller Genuine Draft, Molson Ultra, Sharp's, Staropramen, and Vizzy Hard Seltzer above premier brands; Bergenbier, Borsodi, Carling, Coors Banquet, Coors Light, Jelen, Kamenitza, Miller Lite, Molson Canadian Lager, Molson Dry, Molson Export, and Niksicko, Ozujsko under the premium brands; and Branik, Icehouse, Keystone, Miller High Life, Milwaukee's Best, and Steel Reserve under the economy brands. The company was formerly known as Molson Coors Brewing Company and changed its name to Molson Coors Beverage Company in January 2020. Molson Coors Beverage Company was founded in 1774 and is headquartered in Golden, Colorado.

#38 - Celsius

NASDAQ:CELH
Stock Price: $172.67 (+$29.31)
Market Cap: $13.26 billion
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (7 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $161.80 (-6.3% Upside)

Celsius Holdings, Inc. develops, processes, markets, distributes, and sells functional drinks and liquid supplements in the United States and internationally. The company offers various carbonated and non-carbonated functional energy drinks under the CELSIUS Originals name; dietary supplement in carbonated flavors, including apple jack'd, orangesicle, inferno punch, cherry lime, blueberry pomegranate, strawberry dragon fruit, tangerine grapefruit, and jackfruit under the CELSIUS HEAT name; and branched-chain amino acids functional energy drink that fuels muscle recovery under the CELSIUS BCCA+ENERGY name. It also provides CELSIUS On-the-Go, a powdered form of the active ingredients in functional energy drinks in individual On-The-Go packets and canisters; and sparkling grapefruit, cucumber lime, and orange pomegranate, as well as pineapple coconut, watermelon berry, and strawberries and cream non-carbonated functional energy drinks under the CELSIUS Sweetened name; and CELSIUS ready-to drink products. It distributes its products through direct-to-store delivery distributors and direct to retailers, include supermarkets, convenience stores, drug stores, nutritional stores, and mass merchants, as well as health clubs, spas, gyms, the military, and e-commerce websites. The company was formerly known as Vector Ventures, Inc. and changed its name to Celsius Holdings, Inc. in January 2007. Celsius Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

#39 - Campbell Soup

NYSE:CPB
Stock Price: $43.97 (+$0.66)
Market Cap: $13.11 billion
P/E Ratio: 16.8
Dividend Yield: 3.34%
Consensus Rating: Reduce (0 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 3 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $49.83 (13.3% Upside)

Campbell Soup Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets food and beverage products in the United States and internationally. The company operates through Meals & Beverages and Snacks segments. The Meals & Beverages segment engages in the retail and foodservice businesses in the United States and Canada. This segment provides Campbell's condensed and ready-to-serve soups; Swanson broth and stocks; Pacific Foods broth, soups, and non-dairy beverages; Prego pasta sauces; Pace Mexican sauces; Campbell's gravies, pasta, beans, and dinner sauces; Swanson canned poultry; V8 juices and beverages; Campbell's tomato juice; and snacking products in foodservice in Canada. The Snacks segment retails Pepperidge Farm cookies, crackers, fresh bakery, and frozen products; Milano cookies and Goldfish crackers; and Snyder's of Hanover pretzels, Lance sandwich crackers, Cape Cod and Kettle Brand potato chips, Late July snacks, Snack Factory pretzel crisps, Pop Secret popcorn, Emerald nuts, and other snacking products. This segment is also involved in the retail business in Latin America. It sells its products through retail food chains, mass discounters and merchandisers, club stores, convenience stores, drug stores, and dollar stores, as well as e-commerce and other retail, commercial, and non-commercial establishments, and independent contractor distributors. The company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

#40 - Chewy

NYSE:CHWY
Stock Price: $30.51 (-$0.72)
Market Cap: $13.04 billion
P/E Ratio: 254.3
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (13 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $43.05 (41.1% Upside)

Chewy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the pure play e-commerce business in the United States. It provides pet food and treats, pet supplies and pet medications, and other pet-health products, as well as pet services for dogs, cats, fish, birds, small pets, horses, and reptiles through its retail Website www.chewy.com, as well as mobile applications. The company offers approximately 110,000 products from 3,500 partner brands. Chewy, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Plantation, Florida.

#41 - Albertsons Companies

NYSE:ACI
Stock Price: $21.70
Market Cap: $12.49 billion
P/E Ratio: 10.6
Dividend Yield: 2.21%
Consensus Rating: Hold (3 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $25.03 (15.4% Upside)

Albertsons Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of food and drug stores in the United States. The company's food and drug retail stores offer grocery products, general merchandise, health and beauty care products, pharmacy, fuel, and other items and services. It also manufactures and processes food products for sale in stores. It operates stores under various banners, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Carrs, Jewel-Osco, Acme, Shaw's, Star Market, United Supermarkets, Market Street, Haggen, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market; and pharmacies, in-store branded coffee shops, adjacent fuel centers, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities, as well as various digital platforms. The company was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho. Albertsons Companies, Inc. is a subsidiary of Albertsons Investor Holdings LLC.

#42 - Aramark

NYSE:ARMK
Stock Price: $41.42 (+$0.64)
Market Cap: $10.79 billion
P/E Ratio: 44.1
Dividend Yield: 1.16%
Consensus Rating: Hold (3 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $42.27 (2.1% Upside)

Aramark provides food, facilities, and uniform services to education, healthcare, business and industry, sports, leisure, and corrections clients in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Food and Support Services United States, Food and Support Services International, and Uniform and Career Apparel. The company offers food-related managed services, including dining, catering, food service management, and convenience-oriented retail services; non-clinical support services, such as patient food and nutrition, retail food, and procurement services; and plant operations and maintenance, custodial/housekeeping, energy management, grounds keeping, and capital project management services. It also provides on-site restaurants, catering, convenience stores, and executive dining services; beverage and vending services; and facility management services comprising landscaping, transportation, payment, and other facility consulting services relating to building operations. In addition, the company offers concessions, banquet, and catering services; retail services and merchandise sale, recreational, and lodging services; and facility management services at sports, entertainment, and recreational facilities. Further, the company offers correctional food; and operates commissaries, laundry facilities, and property rooms. Additionally, it provides design, sourcing and manufacturing, delivery, cleaning, maintenance, and marketing services for uniforms and accessories; provides managed restroom services; work clothing, outerwear, and item related services that include mats, towels, linens, and first aid supplies. The company was formerly known as ARAMARK Holdings Corporation. Aramark was founded in 1959 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

#43 - Darling Ingredients

NYSE:DAR
Stock Price: $65.88 (-$2.50)
Market Cap: $10.52 billion
P/E Ratio: 14.6
Consensus Rating: Buy (9 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $91.82 (39.4% Upside)

Darling Ingredients Inc. develops, produces, and sells natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients in North America, Europe, China, South America, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients, and Fuel Ingredients. It offers ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy, and fertilizer industries. The company also collects and transforms various animal by-product streams into useable and specialty ingredients, such as collagen, edible fats, feed-grade fats, animal proteins and meals, plasma, pet food ingredients, organic fertilizers, yellow grease, fuel feedstock, green energy, natural casings, and hides. In addition, it recovers and converts used cooking oil and animal fats, and residual bakery products into valuable feed and fuel ingredients. Further, the company provides environmental services, including grease trap collection and disposal services to food service establishments. It primarily operates under the Rendac, Sonac, FASA, Ecoson, Rousselot, and CTH brand names. The company was formerly known as Darling International Inc. and changed its name to Darling Ingredients Inc. in May 2014. Darling Ingredients Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

#44 - Coty

NYSE:COTY
Stock Price: $11.70 (-$0.25)
Market Cap: $9.98 billion
P/E Ratio: 58.5
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (6 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $13.19 (12.8% Upside)

Coty Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells beauty products worldwide. It operates through Prestige and Consumer Beauty segments. The company provides fragrance, color cosmetics, and skin and body care products. It offers Prestige products primarily through prestige retailers, including perfumeries, department stores, e-retailers, direct-to-consumer websites, and duty-free shops under the Burberry, Bottega Veneta, Calvin Klein, Cavalli, Chloe, Davidoff, Escada, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Jil Sander, Joop!, Kylie Jenner, Lacoste, Lancaster, Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Orveda, philosophy, SKKN BY KIM, and Tiffany & Co. brands. The company provides Consumer Beauty products primarily through hypermarkets, supermarkets, drug stores, pharmacies, mid-tier department stores, traditional food and drug retailers, and e-commerce retailers under the Adidas, Beckham, Biocolor, Bozzano, Bourjois, Bruno Banani, CoverGirl, Jovan, Max Factor, Mexx, Monange, Nautica, Paixao, Rimmel, Risque, Sally Hansen, and 007 James Bond brands. Coty Inc. also sells its products through third-party distributors to approximately 120 countries and territories. The company was founded in 1904 and is based in New York, New York. Coty Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Cottage Holdco B.V.

#45 - US Foods

NYSE:USFD
Stock Price: $42.26 (+$0.16)
Market Cap: $9.90 billion
P/E Ratio: 30.4
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (5 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $46.73 (10.6% Upside)

US Foods Holding Corp., through its subsidiary, engages in marketing, sale, and distribution of fresh, frozen, and dry food and non-food products to foodservice customers in the United States. The company's customers include independently owned single and multi-unit restaurants, regional concepts, national restaurant chains, hospitals, nursing homes, hotels and motels, country clubs, government and military organizations, colleges and universities, and retail locations. As of December 31, 2022, it operated 70 distribution facilities, 86 cash and carry locations, and 14 broadline support business production facilities. The company was formerly known as USF Holding Corp. and changed its name to US Foods Holding Corp. in February 2016. US Foods Holding Corp. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois.

#46 - Service Co. International

NYSE:SCI
Stock Price: $63.09 (-$0.03)
Market Cap: $9.52 billion
P/E Ratio: 20.1
Dividend Yield: 1.72%
Consensus Rating: Buy (3 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $75.67 (19.9% Upside)

Service Corporation International provides deathcare products and services in the United States and Canada. The company operates through Funeral and Cemetery segments. Its funeral service and cemetery operations comprise funeral service locations, cemeteries, funeral service/cemetery combination locations, crematoria, and other businesses. The company also provides professional services related to funerals and cremations, including the use of funeral facilities and motor vehicles; arranging and directing services; and removal, preparation, embalming, cremation, memorialization, and travel protection, as well as catering services. In addition, it offers funeral merchandise, including burial caskets and related accessories, urns and other cremation receptacles, outer burial containers, flowers, online and video tributes, stationery products, casket and cremation memorialization products, and other ancillary merchandise. Further, the company's cemeteries provide cemetery property interment rights, such as developed lots, lawn crypts, mausoleum spaces, niches, and other cremation memorialization and interment options; and sells cemetery merchandise and services, including memorial markers and bases, outer burial containers, flowers and floral placements, graveside services, merchandise installations, and interments, as well as offers preneed cemetery merchandise and services. Service Corporation International offers its products and services under the Dignity Memorial, Dignity Planning, National Cremation Society, Advantage Funeral and Cremation Services, Funeraria del Angel, Making Everlasting Memories, Neptune Society, and Trident Society brands. It owns and operates funeral service locations and cemeteries in 44 states, eight Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The company was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

#47 - RH

NYSE:RH
Stock Price: $390.53 (-$9.04)
Market Cap: $8.61 billion
P/E Ratio: 25.8
Consensus Rating: Hold (3 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $300.87 (-23.0% Upside)

RH, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a retailer in the home furnishings and operates under RH Galleries and RH brand names in the District of Columbia and Canada, as well as Waterworks showrooms throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. It offers products in various categories, including furniture, lighting, textiles, bathware, décor, outdoor and garden, and child and teen furnishings. The company provides its products through its retail galleries; online through rh.com, rhbabyandchild.com, rhteen.com, and rhmodern.com, as well as waterworks.com, and Source Books, a series of catalogs. The company was formerly known as Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to RH in January 2017. RH was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Corte Madera, California.

#48 - New York Times

NYSE:NYT
Stock Price: $43.89 (-$0.40)
Market Cap: $7.23 billion
P/E Ratio: 38.2
Dividend Yield: 1.08%
Consensus Rating: Hold (1 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $39.33 (-10.4% Upside)

The New York Times Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides news and information for readers and viewers across various platforms worldwide. It offers The New York Times (The Times), a daily and Sunday newspaper in the United States, as well as international edition of The Times; and operates the NYTimes.com website. The company also licenses articles, graphics, and photographs to newspapers, magazines and websites; and licenses content to digital aggregators in the business, professional, academic and library markets; third-party digital platforms; and for use in television, films and books. In addition, it engages in the live events business, which hosts events to connect audiences with journalists and outside thought leaders; and digital advertising business that includes direct-sold website, mobile application, podcast, email, and video advertisements. Further, the company offers The Athletic, a sports media product; Cooking, a recipe product; Games, a puzzle games product; and Audm, a read-aloud audio service that are available on mobile applications and websites, as well as Wirecutter, a product review and recommendation product. It also prints and distributes products for third parties; and offers other products and services. The company was founded in 1851 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

#49 - e.l.f. Beauty

NYSE:ELF
Stock Price: $130.91 (-$0.62)
Market Cap: $7.13 billion
P/E Ratio: 74.0
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (8 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $115.83 (-11.5% Upside)

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides cosmetic and skin care products under the e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. Skin, Well People, and Keys Soulcare brand names worldwide. The company offers eye, lip, face, face, paw, and skin care products. It sells its products through national and international retailers and direct-to-consumer channels, which include e-commerce platforms in the United States, and internationally primarily through distributors. The company was formerly known as J.A. Cosmetics Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. in April 2016. e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

#50 - Ingredion

NYSE:INGR
Stock Price: $101.06 (+$0.03)
Market Cap: $6.67 billion
P/E Ratio: 12.2
Dividend Yield: 2.59%
Consensus Rating: Hold (2 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $117.20 (16.0% Upside)

Ingredion Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells sweeteners, starches, nutrition ingredients, and biomaterial solutions derived from wet milling and processing corn, and other starch-based materials to a range of industries in North America, South America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company offers starch products for use in a range of processed foods; cornstarch; specialty paper starches for enhanced drainage, fiber retention, oil and grease resistance, improved printability, and biochemical oxygen demand control; starches and specialty starches for textile industry; industrial starches are used in the production of construction materials, textiles, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, as well as in mining and water filtration; and specialty industrial starches for use in biomaterial applications, including biodegradable plastics, fabric softeners and detergents, hair and skin care applications, dusting powders for surgical gloves, and in the production of glass fiber and insulation. It also provides sweetener products comprising glucose syrups, high maltose syrup, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, polyols, maltodextrin, glucose syrup solids, and non-genetically modified organism syrups for use in food and beverage products, such as baked goods, snack foods, canned fruits, condiments, candy and other sweets, dairy products, ice cream, jams and jellies, prepared mixes, table syrups, soft drinks, fruit-flavored drinks, and others. In addition, the company refined corn oil, corn gluten feed, and corn gluten meal; and other products, including fruit and vegetable products, such as concentrates, purees, and essences, as well as pulse proteins and hydrocolloids systems and blends. The company was formerly known as Corn Products International, Inc. and changed its name to Ingredion Incorporated in June 2012. Ingredion Incorporated was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Westchester, Illinois.

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Consumer Staples Stocks, Explained

Last updated on Fri., March 24, 2023 | Matthew North

Consumer Staple Stocks and Inflation
Are Dividend Consumer Staple Stocks a Good Investment?
When Do Consumer Staples Stocks Do Well?
Consumer Staples Stock Share Performance
Top Consumer Staples Stock List
How to Invest in Consumer Staples Stock
Consumer Staples Stock ETF
Consumer Staples Index Fund

The consumer staples sector consists of companies providing basic goods and services. This sector includes food and beverages, personal care, and home appliances. The consumer staples sector is generally considered defensive because consumer demand for basic goods and services is relatively insensitive to economic cycles.

This sector often outperforms the broader market during times of economic uncertainty and market volatility. The consumer goods sector is one of the largest sectors of the US stock market, with a market capitalization of over $2 trillion.

The sector is home to some of the largest and best-known companies in the world, including Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), Coca-Cola (NASDAQ: COKE) and PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP).

Consumer Staple Stocks and Inflation

What are consumer staples stocks? Consumer goods are goods that people cannot or do not want to cut back on, regardless of the state of the economy. These things include food, clothing, and shelter. Inflation can have a significant impact on consumer spending. When inflation is high, it erodes margins and squeezes profits. This is because companies have to pay more for their inputs but may not be able to pass these higher costs on to consumers. As a result, income may suffer. In addition, inflation can affect consumer goods stocks in yet another way.

When inflation is high, consumers may cut back on spending, which leads to lower sales for businesses in the sector. In general, inflation will be a headwind for consumer staples. However, there are also some potential compensating factors. Thus, firms in this industry can benefit from higher product prices because consumers still have to buy these goods. In addition, firms can compensate for higher input costs by being more efficient or by passing on some of the costs to consumers.

Learn more: What is the Consumer Staples Sector?

Are Dividend Consumer Staple Stocks a Good Investment?

One of the benefits of buying dividend stocks in various sectors of the stock market is that dividend payments can help offset some of the decline in stock value during an economic downturn. Another benefit is that investors can benefit from the compounding effect of dividends if they invest long-term. When dividends are paid, investors can invest that money in consumer staples dividend stocks to buy more shares and earn a higher total return.

Another benefit of these companies is that downturns help improve the company’s valuation. When stock prices are down, this helps improve companies’ valuation ratios such as price-to-earnings (P/E), which, when combined with higher than average earnings per share, can be snapped up at a relative bargain.

When Do Consumer Staples Stocks Do Well?

When the economy is struggling, people still need to buy basic necessities like food and toilet paper. That's why consumer staples tend to do well even when the rest of the market is in a slump.

The prices of consumer staples stocks can rise even during an economic downturn as they are regarded by some as safe investments for people to park their cash into. Many companies in the consumer staples sector also offer higher dividend yields than other sectors, with an average yield of around 2%. The S&P 500 tracks companies that offer yields as high as 5%, but these are diversified across a wide range of industries that can contract sharply during a recession and are therefore riskier.

One of the best examples of how a consumer staples stock has held up well during a recession is Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), the maker of household staples like Tide detergent and Gillette razors. During the financial crisis of 2008-2009, while the S&P 500 index was plunging by more than 50%, PG only fell by about 10%.

Investors are often willing to pay a premium for these kinds of stocks, which is one reason why the consumer staples sector can trade at a higher valuation than the market as a whole such as the S&P 500. In 2021, the consumer staples sector ended with a P/E ratio of 22.74. During the same period, the S&P 500 ended at 23.63.

Over the past decade, consumer staples stocks have outperformed the broader market. The S&P 500 Consumer Staples Index has gained an average of 9.4% annually, while the S&P 500 Index has gained an average of 7.2% annually.

There are several reasons for this outperformance. Consumer staples stocks tend to be less volatile than the broader market since their products and revenues are less cyclical in nature. Investors can feel more certain that its top lines are more predictable.

In addition, consumer staples stocks have benefited from several tailwinds in recent years. The aging of the population has led to increased demand for healthcare products and services. The rise of the middle class in developing countries has led to increased demand for consumer staples products.

Top Consumer Staples Stock List

A few key consumer staples stocks belong on any investor's radar. These companies have solid fundamentals, have shown consistent growth, and have a history of paying dividends.

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG): Procter & Gamble is a consumer staples powerhouse. P&G’s brands include Ariel, Always, Gillette, Pantene, Oral-B, Pampers, and more. These brands are available in over 180 countries and are trusted by millions of consumers worldwide.
Coca-Cola (NASDAQ: COKE): Coca-Cola is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Coke is a staple product because it is affordable, available almost everywhere, and has a unique taste many people enjoy.
PepsiCo (PEP): PepsiCo is a close competitor to Coca-Cola. Pepsi is a staple product because it has been around for many years and is a trusted brand. Pepsi is also an affordable product, and it is available in many different stores.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ): Johnson & Johnson is a holding company that researches and develops, manufactures, and sells a range of products in the healthcare field. The healthcare sector is a staple sector because it provides essential goods and services to society.

How to Invest in Consumer Staples Stock

There are several reasons to invest in consumer staples stocks. They tend to be less volatile than other sectors, providing a measure of stability and downside protection in a portfolio. They also offer the potential for income and capital appreciation, as well as the potential to hedge inflation.

When choosing a consumer staples stock or even a consumer staples index fund (which tracks a market index), there are some factors to consider.

The first is the company's financial strength. Look for companies with strong balance sheets and a history of profitability. These companies are more likely to weather economic downturns and continue to pay dividends. When assessing a company’s ongoing ability to pay dividends, one factor to consider is its dividend payout ratio, which is measured as a percentage.

The second factor is the company's competitive advantage. Look for companies with a unique product or service that is in demand even when the economy weakens. These companies are more likely to maintain or grow their market share during tough times.

The third factor is the company's valuation. Consumer staples stocks tend to trade at a premium to the market, so it is important to find companies that are trading at a reasonable price. Look for companies with a low P/E ratio and a high dividend yield. The other side to this is that a company could have a high P/E ratio and still be a viable investment. This is because investors sometimes pay more for a company with premium earnings, as can be seen from some of the most expensive stocks on the market today.

Finally, consider the company's management team. Look for a team with a track record of success in running a consumer staples business. This will give you confidence that they have the experience and expertise to navigate through tough times.

Consumer Staples Stock ETF

If you're looking to invest in consumer staple stocks, one way to do so is through consumer staple ETFs. Consumer staple ETFs offer investors exposure to a basket of consumer staple stocks, which can provide diversification and reduce risk.

Some popular consumer staple ETFs include the Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (NYSERACA: VDC) and the SPDR S&P Consumer Staples ETF (NYSEARCA: PSCC). Both of these ETFs track broad-based indexes and hold various consumer staple stocks.

If you're looking for a more targeted approach, there are also ETFs that focus on specific sub-sectors of the consumer staples sector, such as the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (NYSEARCA: XRT) and the First Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX ETF (NYSEARCA: FXG).

No matter which consumer staple ETF you choose, be sure to do your homework before investing. Read the fund's prospectus and research the individual stocks that make up the fund. By doing so, you'll be better equipped to make an informed investment decision.

There are a few things to consider when choosing a consumer staples stock ETF. The first is the expense ratio. A lower expense ratio means more of your investment goes into the actual fund, so choosing an ETF with a low expense ratio is important. The second is the fund's holdings. You'll want to ensure the fund invests in a diversified mix of consumer staples stocks so you're not too exposed to any company or sector. Finally, consider the fund's performance. Past performance is no guarantee of future results, but it can give you an idea of how the fund has performed in different market conditions.

Consumer Staples Index Fund

Index funds are an alternative to an ETF for passively investing in the consumer staples sector. The difference between an ETF and index funds is that investors do not own the assets an ETF tracks but instead own part of the ETF itself. With index funds, however, it's similar to buying a basket of stocks of many different companies.

Index funds that track the consumer staples sector can expose investors to a defensive sector while still allowing them to benefit from the overall market growth. These funds can be a good choice for investors who are looking for stability and income.

There are a number of different index funds that track the consumer staples sector. These funds can offer investors different levels of exposure, depending on their individual needs and goals.

The Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund (VCSAX) is one of the largest and most popular index funds tracking the consumer staples sector. This fund invests in a wide range of companies, including food and beverage companies, household products companies, and retailers.

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