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Consumer Defensive

#7 by market cap

Food, beverages, household staples and discount retail. 133 US-listed equities across 12 industries; the sector accounts for 4.4% of tracked equity market cap and 3.3% of daily volume.

Market cap

$3.626T

-0.24%

-$8.577B · 1D

Sector weight

4.4%

of tracked market cap

Volume 24h

$21.845B

3.3% of market volume

Revenue TTM

$2.756T

Sum of constituents

Net income TTM

$122.908B

4.5% net margin

P/E (TTM)

29.4×

Market 30.1×

Dividend yield

2.5%

Market 1.4%

Employees

6.2M

Across 133 companies

Industry breakdown

Share of sector market cap · 12 industries

Discount Stores$1.377T-2.29%
Tobacco$408.469B-0.80%
Packaged Foods$185.596B-15.67%
Confectioners$108.994B-7.22%
Farm Products$85.2B-8.67%
Food Distribution$83.005B-6.94%
4 more industries$127.015B3.5%
View all 12 industries →

Concentration

Share of sector market cap by constituent

75.7%top 10
WMT22.9%
COST11.2%
KO10.2%
Next 731.4%
Other 12324.3%

HHI index
966.4

Mega caps
5

Median cap
$2.496B

Valuation vs. market

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

P/E (TTM)
29.4×
P/S
1.3×
EV / EBITDA
14.6×
Operating margin
7.5%
Dividend yield
2.5%

Trading at a 2.2% P/E discount to the all-equities market.

Returns vs. market

Cap-weighted price return · spread in percentage points

PeriodSectorMarketSpread
1 day-0.24%+0.11%-0.35%
1 week-1.81%-0.71%-1.10%
1 month-4.24%+0.10%-4.33%
3 months-7.53%+0.91%-8.44%
Year to date-0.21%+11.07%-11.28%
1 year+0.24%+12.50%-12.26%

Constituents

133 equities · sorted by market cap

#
1
Walmart Inc.

WMT · US

Discount Stores$830.118B22.9%$104.26+0.33%-3.10%-1.57%$2.401B36.5×
2Discount Stores$405.756B11.2%$914.94+0.51%+2.06%-2.66%$1.945B45.9×
3Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$370.488B10.2%$86.10+0.02%-2.27%-2.16%$1.612B27×
4Household & Personal Products$334.52B9.2%$143.95-0.92%-1.19%-1.55%$1.054B20.9×
5Tobacco$293.298B8.1%$188.18-1.38%-1.73%+0.55%$671.48M27.1×
6
PepsiCo, Inc.

PEP · US

Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$171.666B4.7%$125.60-0.88%-1.99%-10.15%$1.072B19.7×
7Tobacco$111.789B3.1%$66.95-0.58%-2.80%-3.77%$397.58M14.1×
8Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$82.551B2.3%$42.14+1.25%-1.24%-6.34%$424.48M38.8×
9Confectioners$74.144B2%$57.76-0.10%-5.09%-6.25%$439.83M37.7×
10
Target Corp.

TGT · US

Discount Stores$71.17B2%$156.70+0.01%+0.35%-4.31%$742.9M20.6×
11Household & Personal Products$67.385B1.9%$84.53-0.93%-0.93%-5.69%$423.94M33.1×
12Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$41.752B1.2%$30.69+1.15%-0.62%-3.76%$543.54M22.8×
13Farm Products$38.325B1.1%$79.52+0.18%-2.88%-5.95%$190.5M21.7×
14
Sysco Corp.

SYY · US

Food Distribution$37.259B1%$77.77-0.24%-0.54%-5.29%$361.06M30.9×
15Grocery Stores$36.673B1%$59.48+1.47%+0.95%+2.66%$472.68M34.8×
16Packaged Foods$35.719B1%$10.86-3.81%-4.40%-19.02%$96.95M32.1×
17
Kenvue Inc.

KVUE · US

Household & Personal Products$33.061B0.9%$17.22-2.49%-2.22%-8.16%$382.4M20.4×
18Household & Personal Products$32.631B0.9%$90.19-2.78%-5.43%-9.81%$316.32M179.3×
19Confectioners$32.006B0.9%$159.30+1.07%-4.54%-9.49%$339.64M21.5×
20Household & Personal Products$31.374B0.9%$94.34-3.17%-2.96%-11.90%$568.63M16.1×
21Packaged Foods$26.638B0.7%$22.46-1.14%-5.87%-13.18%$397.54M-7.8×
22Discount Stores$26.238B0.7%$118.93-0.54%-2.94%-9.28%$221.79M15.4×
23Household & Personal Products$22.317B0.6%$94.11-0.12%-1.28%-5.35%$236.43M41.2×
24Discount Stores$21.475B0.6%$114.43+0.36%+0.82%-13.12%$215.92M13.3×
25Farm Products$20.481B0.6%$106.61-0.32%-3.27%-11.92%$316.6M20.3×
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