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Consumer Defensive

#7 by market cap

Food, beverages, household staples and discount retail. 132 US-listed equities across 12 industries; the sector accounts for 5.1% of tracked equity market cap and 1.5% of daily volume.

Market Cap$4.134T+0.09%today
Sector Weight5.1%of tracked market cap
Volume 24h$20.792B1.5% of market volume
Revenue TTM$2.767TSum of constituents
Net Income TTM$124.617B4.5% net margin
P/E (TTM)33.1×Market P/E 28.6×
Dividend Yield2.2%Market 1.4%
Employees6.2MAcross 132 companies

Industry breakdown

Share of sector market cap12 industries
Discount Stores$1.624T+10.78%
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$791.855B+9.46%
Household & Personal Products$648.627B+10.75%
Tobacco$433.771B-0.94%
Packaged Foods$196.938B+3.05%
Confectioners$122.103B+7.14%
Farm Products$89.897B-3.98%
Food Distribution$88.398B+5.27%
4 more industries$137.83B3.3%
View all 12 industries →

Concentration

Share of sector market cap by constituent

76.3%top 10
WMT24.1%
COST11.4%
KO10.1%
Next 730.7%
Other 12223.7%

HHI index
1K

Mega caps
5

Median cap
$2.957B

Valuation vs market

Sector totals valued as one company; marker is the all-equities median

P/E (TTM): 33.1× · market 20.6×

P/S: 1.5× · market 2.6×

EV / EBITDA: 16.2× · market 13.2×

Operating margin: 7.6% · market 8.7%

Dividend yield: 2.2% · market 2.3%

Trading at a 15.5% P/E premium to the all-equities market.

Returns vs market

Cap-weighted price return · spread in percentage points

PeriodSectorMarketSpread
1 day+0.09%-0.37%+0.46pp
1 week-0.05%+0.03%-0.08pp
1 month+7.95%-3.54%+11.50pp
3 months+8.34%-3.28%+11.62pp
Year to date+16.30%+9.45%+6.85pp
1 year+18.95%+9.51%+9.44pp

Constituents

132 equities

Discount Stores$996.602B24.1%$125.49-0.14%-1.72%+10.97%$1.482B45.1×
Discount Stores$472.815B11.4%$1.07K-0.00%+2.46%+11.12%$1.124B53.5×
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$416.961B10.1%$96.90+0.91%+1.12%+7.92%$2.206B29.1×
Household & Personal Products$391.896B9.5%$168.64+0.19%+3.11%+10.08%$2.476B24.4×
Tobacco$302.899B7.3%$194.34+0.63%-6.70%-3.79%$1.083B27.9×
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$196.067B4.7%$143.65+1.25%+2.30%+13.40%$686.03M18.8×
Tobacco$127.46B3.1%$76.33+0.69%-1.09%+6.52%$417.63M16×
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$88.801B2.1%$45.33-0.68%-5.60%+3.59%$262.15M41.7×
Confectioners$84.229B2%$66.54+0.15%+0.24%+7.69%$371.7M42.8×
Household & Personal Products$78.183B1.9%$98.07+0.14%+0.66%+8.99%$391.3M38.4×
Discount Stores$73.513B1.8%$161.82-2.46%+2.17%+5.34%$555.51M16.7×
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$51.192B1.2%$37.62+1.84%+2.17%+14.87%$506.36M38.1×
Grocery Stores$42.29B1%$68.59+0.85%+0.34%+9.64%$234.13M40.2×
Household & Personal Products$41.039B1%$113.43+0.24%+8.27%+13.38%$562.76M225.5×
Packaged Foods$40.718B1%$12.38-5.64%-0.48%-3.73%$180.45M36.5×
Food Distribution$37.159B0.9%$77.65-0.93%-5.00%-1.33%$154.51M30.8×
Kenvue Inc.KVUEUS
Household & Personal Products$37.08B0.9%$19.31-1.28%-1.33%+9.34%$1.282B22.4×
Household & Personal Products$36.843B0.9%$110.79-1.02%+2.35%+12.17%$523.62M18.9×
Confectioners$34.944B0.8%$173.93+0.26%+1.57%+6.16%$222.77M23.5×
Farm Products$33.395B0.8%$69.29-0.79%-8.55%-13.84%$234.29M18.9×
Discount Stores$30.295B0.7%$137.32+0.47%+1.13%+8.52%$207.95M17.8×
Packaged Foods$28.749B0.7%$24.24-0.74%-2.77%+7.97%$204.43M-8.5×
Household & Personal Products$26.498B0.6%$111.74+0.39%+1.17%+11.89%$183.34M48.9×
Discount Stores$26.426B0.6%$140.81+2.61%+1.60%+19.73%$176.25M16.4×
Beverages - Brewers$24.956B0.6%$145.52+0.01%+3.45%+15.13%$176.4M13.7×
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