Consumer Discretionary Stocks — Analysis & Key Financial Data

The exact count is shown in the hero above. Consumer Discretionary covers retail (specialty and broadline), automotive, restaurants, leisure and lodging, apparel, and durables — businesses whose revenue is sensitive to household income and consumer confidence. Some classifiers call this sector Consumer Cyclical; we use the same set of companies under the Discretionary name to match major data providers.

Discretionary covers wants — restaurants, vacations, new cars, premium apparel — while Staples covers needs — food, household goods, personal care. Discretionary names are more cyclical (revenue swings with the consumer) and Staples names are more defensive (steady demand, lower beta). The two sectors have separate screener pages on this site.

Cyclical names are usually valued through the cycle rather than on a single year of earnings. A trailing P/E that looks low at the top of a cycle and high at the bottom is well documented; our base valuations smooth across data history where the model supports it, and the Investment Score weighs balance-sheet strength so a name with healthy cash and low leverage scores higher than one carrying late-cycle balance-sheet stress.

Most are, but classification follows each company's primary revenue mix in our taxonomy rather than the popular framing of the name. A handful of platform-style e-commerce companies sit in Communication Services, and some component suppliers to EVs sit in Industrials. The taxonomy is consistent across the site so the screener stays aligned with the data sources investors compare against.

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