Consumer Staples Stocks — Analysis & Key Financial Data
Consumer staples covers food, beverages, household products, and personal care — categories with steady demand across the cycle. Investors look at consumer staples stocks for predictable cash flow, brand-driven pricing power, and dividend reliability, while watching commodity-input costs and shifts in consumer preference. Browse 132 consumer staples stocks with proprietary Investment Scores, base valuations, and key financial data to make informed decisions.
Sector Investment Score
Highest Investment Scores in Consumer Staples
Top-rated stocks by Investment Score
- Price
- $114.16
- Fair Value
- $131.64
- Market Cap
- $3.2B
- Margin
- +15.3%
- Price
- $86.24
- Fair Value
- $82.99
- Market Cap
- $3.7B
- Margin
- -3.8%
- Price
- $6.24
- Fair Value
- $3.90
- Market Cap
- $84M
- Margin
- -37.5%
- Price
- $111.86
- Fair Value
- $163.02
- Market Cap
- $3.5B
- Margin
- +45.7%
Consumer Staples Stock List
| Company | Price | Fair Value | Score | Market Cap | P/E | EPS | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Newell Brands Inc. NWL | $6.06 | $5.44 | 16 | $2.5B | -8.7 | $-0.67 | 4.81% |
The Andersons, Inc. ANDE | $68.78 | $64.83 | 42 | $2.4B | 18.8 | $3.78 | 1.11% |
Chagee Holdings Limited American Depositary Shares CHA | $11.97 | — | 71 | $2.3B | 16.8 | $4.93 | 7.17% |
Universal Technical Institute, Inc. UTI | $41.35 | $14.83 | 58 | $2.3B | 52.8 | $0.78 | 0.00% |
Perdoceo Education Corporation PRDO | $32.19 | $31.78 | 90 | $2.1B | 12.5 | $2.72 | 1.80% |
The Boston Beer Company, Inc. SAM | $182.40 | $89.70 | 68 | $2.1B | -30.5 | $-5.85 | 0.00% |
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. SPB | $85.43 | $45.94 | 65 | $2.0B | 16.5 | $5.45 | 2.15% |
Weis Markets, Inc. WMK | $78.81 | $62.98 | 61 | $2.0B | 20.1 | $4.08 | 1.70% |
McGraw Hill, Inc. MH | $9.29 | $15.77 | 55 | $1.8B | 55.0 | $0.19 | 0.00% |
Strategic Education, Inc. STRA | $77.10 | $53.68 | 87 | $1.8B | 13.6 | $6.00 | 3.04% |
Ingles Markets, Incorporated IMKTA | $88.37 | $152.70 | 65 | $1.7B | 15.9 | $5.49 | 0.74% |
Coty Inc. COTY | $1.96 | $4.11 | 32 | $1.7B | -3.1 | $-0.61 | 0.00% |
Flowers Foods, Inc. FLO | $8.05 | $20.23 | 55 | $1.7B | 22.7 | $0.34 | 10.90% |
Turning Point Brands, Inc. TPB | $84.56 | $67.76 | 65 | $1.7B | 28.9 | $2.89 | 0.36% |
Lincoln Educational Services Corporation LINC | $49.31 | $17.27 | 48 | $1.6B | 68.3 | $0.72 | 0.00% |
Nomad Foods Limited NOMD | $11.20 | $34.25 | 52 | $1.6B | 10.9 | $0.94 | 6.12% |
J&J Snack Foods Corp. JJSF | $73.94 | $89.35 | 68 | $1.4B | 25.3 | $3.08 | 4.22% |
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. FDP | $29.22 | $27.14 | 61 | $1.4B | 20.0 | $1.47 | 4.11% |
BellRing Brands, Inc. BRBR | $12.38 | $59.31 | 65 | $1.3B | 8.8 | $1.34 | 0.00% |
Afya Limited AFYA | $14.87 | $262.53 | 87 | $1.3B | 9.2 | $8.45 | 4.41% |
Universal Corporation UVV | $52.96 | $156.27 | 45 | $1.3B | 41.4 | $1.30 | 6.10% |
Dole plc DOLE | $13.89 | $43.39 | 48 | $1.3B | 23.0 | $0.46 | 2.42% |
Herbalife Nutrition Ltd. HLF | $12.79 | $31.23 | 52 | $1.3B | 5.4 | $2.31 | 0.00% |
Edgewell Personal Care Company EPC | $27.78 | $36.97 | 35 | $1.3B | -16.4 | $-1.67 | 2.16% |
Phoenix Education Partners, Inc PXED | $32.94 | — | 74 | $1.2B | 19.8 | $1.67 | 1.27% |
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About the consumer staples sector
Consumer Staples covers the businesses that sell what people buy regardless of the economic cycle — food, beverages, household products, personal care, and tobacco. The sector is small in stock count compared with Technology or Healthcare but large in market capitalisation and dividend payments. Investors looking at consumer staples stocks are usually looking for a different profile than investors scanning Discretionary or Energy: predictable cash generation, brand-driven pricing power, and dividend reliability across the cycle.
What makes the sector distinct is how concentrated its returns tend to be. A handful of multi-decade-old brands dominate share in their categories, with private-label competition at the low end and category-disruptor entrants at the high end. The Investment Score evaluates the same things here as elsewhere — profitability, balance-sheet quality, growth — but the typical staples name will lean more on the first two than on the third.
The screener also surfaces the cash-flow and EBITDA margin-of-safety variants alongside the Graham fair-value version. For mature staples names, those three numbers can disagree in informative ways: a low fair-value margin of safety paired with a strong cash-flow margin of safety usually points to a multiple-driven gap rather than a fundamentals-driven one.
What this page is for
This page is a screener and reference surface, not editorial coverage. The list above refreshes with each data update; the methodology, FAQ, and related categories below stay in place so the page is useful both for somebody arriving from a specific search and for somebody scanning the sector for the first time.
If you want to value a single consumer staples stock end-to-end rather than scan the sector, the Invest Viable Valuator walks through the same models we use to compute the base valuations on this page.
Sub-industries within Consumer Staples
Themes within this sector get their own screener pages. Each one applies the same Investment Score model and base valuation to a narrower group of companies.
How we screen consumer staples stocks
Every stock listed on this page has been classified into the Consumer Staples sector by our taxonomy and run through the same Investment Score model and base-valuation pipeline used across the site. The list is mechanical — no editorial weighting.
- Listed on a US exchange (NYSE / Nasdaq) and classified as Consumer Defensive (Staples) in our sector taxonomy.
- Sufficient public financial history to compute the metrics shown — revenue, gross margin, free cash flow, dividend history, balance-sheet items.
- Ingested by our data pipeline within the last update window. Stocks awaiting refresh are not surfaced.
- Investment Score and base valuation computed by the same models used elsewhere on Invest Viable. The score evaluates profitability, balance-sheet quality, and growth — the formula itself is proprietary.
Frequently asked questions
What's in the Consumer Staples sector?
The exact count is shown in the hero above. Consumer Staples covers food and beverages, household products, personal care, and tobacco — categories with steady demand across the economic cycle. Some data providers call the sector Consumer Defensive; we use the same set of companies under the Staples name to match major sources.
Why are staples called "defensive" stocks?
Demand for food, beverages, household goods, and personal care holds up better than demand for cars or vacations during a downturn, so revenue is less cyclical than for Consumer Discretionary. That earnings stability has historically meant lower beta and steadier dividends, which is the trade investors usually have in mind when they describe staples as defensive. It does not make individual names immune to commodity-cost shocks or shifts in consumer preference.
Are dividend yields the only reason to look at consumer staples?
Yields are part of the picture but not the whole one. Many staples names also have brand-driven pricing power and predictable cash conversion, which feed into the Investment Score. The page shows yield alongside the Score and base valuation so the income story can be seen in the context of underlying business quality rather than yield in isolation.
How are consumer staples stocks valued differently from other sectors?
Mature staples businesses are typically valued on free-cash-flow yield and dividend coverage as much as on P/E. Our base valuations apply DCF and multiple-based methods on a per-stock basis; for a stable, slow-growing staples name, the cash-flow margin of safety often carries more weight than the EBITDA-based one. The page shows all three margin-of-safety variants where data supports them.
Does Invest Viable recommend specific consumer staples stocks?
No. This page is a screener and analysis surface, not a recommendation list. Each stock is shown with its underlying financial data, base valuation, and Investment Score so you can do your own research. Invest Viable does not publish buy or sell calls on individual securities.
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