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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 2.7% of daily volume.

Market cap

$3.637T

-0.00%

-$19.01M · 1D

Sector weight

4.4%

of tracked market cap

Volume 24h

$221.93M

2.7% of market volume

Revenue TTM

$2.756T

Sum of constituents

Net income TTM

$122.908B

4.5% net margin

P/E (TTM)

29.5×

Market 30.4×

Dividend yield

2.5%

Market 1.3%

Employees

6.2M

Across 133 companies

Industry breakdown

Share of sector market cap · 12 industries

Discount Stores$1.374T-2.27%
Tobacco$410.508B-0.59%
Packaged Foods$190.434B-13.80%
Confectioners$110.027B-7.40%
Farm Products$86.543B-8.22%
Food Distribution$83.299B-6.06%
4 more industries$126.311B3.5%
View all 12 industries →

Concentration

Share of sector market cap by constituent

75.5%top 10
WMT22.8%
COST11.2%
KO10.2%
Next 731.4%
Other 12324.5%

HHI index
960.6

Mega caps
5

Median cap
$2.477B

Valuation vs. market

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

P/E (TTM): 29.5× · market 19.9×

P/S: 1.3× · market 2.7×

EV / EBITDA: 14.7× · market 12.9×

Operating margin: 7.5% · market 8.5%

Dividend yield: 2.5% · market 2.3%

Trading at a 3% P/E discount to the all-equities market.

Returns vs. market

Cap-weighted price return · spread in percentage points

PeriodSectorMarketSpread
1 day-0.00%+0.54%-0.54%
1 week-1.91%+0.34%-2.24%
1 month-4.13%+1.06%-5.18%
3 months-7.23%+2.39%-9.62%
Year to date+0.11%+12.38%-12.27%
1 year+0.57%+13.79%-13.22%

Constituents

133 equities

Walmart Inc.

WMT · US

Discount Stores$828.366B22.8%$104.04-0.21%-3.65%-1.93%$13.64M36.4×
Discount Stores$407.187B11.2%$918.17-0.27%-0.50%-1.11%$14.07M46.1×
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$369.391B10.2%$85.85+0.23%-2.23%-2.71%$12.25M27×
Household & Personal Products$337.726B9.3%$145.33+0.29%-0.62%-1.57%$6.31M21.1×
Tobacco$294.623B8.1%$189.03+0.84%-0.76%+0.58%$6.09M27.2×
PepsiCo, Inc.

PEP · US

Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$170.128B4.7%$124.48-1.12%-3.23%-11.41%$10.34M19.5×
Tobacco$112.441B3.1%$67.34-0.01%-2.15%-3.19%$4M14.1×
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$84.393B2.3%$43.08+0.33%-0.07%-3.02%$4.05M39.7×
Confectioners$74.452B2%$58-0.33%-3.73%-7.13%$5.49M37.8×
Target Corp.

TGT · US

Discount Stores$68.796B1.9%$151.48-2.90%-3.79%-7.27%$5.68M19.9×
Household & Personal Products$68.35B1.9%$85.74+1.76%-0.37%-4.84%$7.78M33.6×
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic$41.752B1.1%$30.69+1.05%-3.94%-5.83%$4.22M22.8×
Farm Products$39.188B1.1%$81.31+1.07%+0.23%-4.77%$1.15M22.1×
Packaged Foods$39.123B1.1%$11.90+1.93%+2.85%-12.11%$15.65M35.1×
Sysco Corp.

SYY · US

Food Distribution$36.751B1%$76.71-1.01%-2.23%-6.18%$1.14M30.5×
Grocery Stores$36.155B1%$58.64-0.66%-0.17%+0.72%$4.21M34.3×
Household & Personal Products$33.85B0.9%$93.56+1.73%-0.96%-7.50%$1.91M186×
Kenvue Inc.

KVUE · US

Household & Personal Products$33.157B0.9%$17.27+0.41%-2.98%-9.72%$2.96M20.4×
Confectioners$32.709B0.9%$162.80+1.63%-2.15%-8.25%$2.09M22×
Household & Personal Products$31.465B0.9%$94.62+0.27%-3.87%-13.42%$1.95M16.1×
Discount Stores$26.108B0.7%$118.34-0.50%-5.21%-9.59%$2.61M15.3×
Packaged Foods$26.074B0.7%$21.99-0.92%-6.94%-16.26%$2.3M-7.7×
Household & Personal Products$22.593B0.6%$95.28+1.02%-1.14%-4.07%$1.79M41.7×
Discount Stores$20.918B0.6%$111.46-0.62%-2.29%-15.50%$1.53M13×
Food Distribution$20.735B0.6%$95.86-1.09%+2.71%-8.52%$751.16K28.5×
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