The best consumer staples stocks right now, ranked.
Of the 90 investable consumer staples stocks we score, these 25 rank highest on Ticker Nerd's factor model today — all nine factor families at once, not one metric. Every stock in P123's Consumer Non-Cyclicals sector, the taxonomy the rank is built on.
Every score is a percentile across the whole US universe we cover — a 92 beats 92% of it. How the model was built and blind-tested is on the methodology page; what each factor means is on the factor glossary.
| Ticker | Company | Mkt cap | Rank | 1w rank Δ | Revisions | Value | Momentum | Quality | Accruals | Issuance | Growth | Volatility | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The J. M. Smucker Co. Packaged Foods | $12.8B | 97.4 | +0.3 | 89.0 | 79.1 | 71.9 | 58.6 | 94.2 | 88.5 | 88.4 | 74.1 | 13.1 | |
Target Corp. Discount Stores | $71.4B | 95.8 | 0.0 | 95.0 | 80.4 | 88.1 | 59.9 | 64.8 | 90.1 | 77.0 | 79.9 | 3.8 | |
Macy's, Inc. Department Stores | $5.9B | 95.8 | 0.0 | 73.4 | 98.9 | 90.1 | 53.6 | 83.5 | 95.6 | 79.5 | 26.9 | 21.0 | |
Darling Ingredients, Inc. Packaged Foods | $10.0B | 94.4 | +0.6 | 87.4 | 61.9 | 88.9 | 80.0 | 62.1 | 82.7 | 95.6 | 34.4 | 15.4 | |
Colgate-Palmolive Co. Household & Personal Products | $69.5B | 94.3 | −0.2 | 81.8 | 66.7 | 68.0 | 94.9 | 87.8 | 96.9 | 45.0 | 94.9 | 3.9 | |
United Natural Foods, Inc. Food Distribution | $2.8B | 94.1 | −0.6 | 59.4 | 85.6 | 82.4 | 68.9 | 87.9 | 91.8 | 76.2 | 37.9 | 31.1 | |
Altria Group, Inc. Tobacco | $115.0B | 93.0 | −0.2 | 74.3 | 87.5 | 78.2 | 92.4 | 60.6 | 87.0 | 58.6 | 93.9 | 2.2 | |
Ross Stores, Inc. Apparel Retail | $74.8B | 90.6 | +0.4 | 96.6 | 31.4 | 85.2 | 84.2 | 44.3 | 94.6 | 81.9 | 86.1 | 3.7 | |
The Coca-Cola Co. Beverages - Non-Alcoholic | $374.8B | 89.7 | +0.4 | 86.8 | 37.0 | 88.5 | 90.7 | 57.4 | 94.3 | 63.0 | 95.9 | 0.6 | |
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. Farm Products | $40.2B | 89.1 | +0.9 | 84.5 | 67.9 | 83.9 | 53.8 | 48.7 | 91.7 | 83.8 | 87.7 | 6.2 | |
Dillard's, Inc. Department Stores | $9.8B | 88.9 | −0.7 | 77.9 | 85.7 | 82.2 | 80.4 | 46.8 | 91.9 | 64.3 | 44.0 | 15.6 | |
CVS Health Corp. Healthcare Plans | $111.2B | 86.8 | −1.4 | 85.8 | 76.6 | 77.2 | 26.8 | 74.4 | 84.6 | 78.2 | 95.4 | 2.3 | |
Etsy, Inc. Internet Retail | $7.0B | 86.5 | +0.5 | 74.5 | 75.9 | 69.9 | 91.8 | 79.0 | 84.9 | 49.5 | 27.5 | 18.9 | |
Dollar Tree, Inc. Discount Stores | $21.6B | 86.4 | +0.9 | 72.6 | 84.7 | 53.9 | 92.9 | 70.5 | 70.7 | 69.4 | 69.0 | 9.5 | |
The Vita Coco Co., Inc. Beverages - Non-Alcoholic | $3.3B | 86.4 | +1.1 | 89.8 | 38.3 | 83.2 | 95.9 | 41.8 | 65.6 | 91.7 | 28.9 | 28.9 | |
The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. Household & Personal Products | $33.7B | 86.3 | +2.6 | 87.9 | 40.2 | 66.0 | 73.6 | 90.5 | 78.4 | 90.1 | 33.0 | 7.0 | |
Trulieve Cannabis Corp. Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic | $2.2B | 85.2 | +1.7 | 50.4 | 71.1 | 74.0 | 84.7 | 99.4 | 88.7 | 40.8 | 39.4 | 34.1 | |
The Kroger Co. Grocery Stores | $36.6B | 84.6 | −0.5 | 56.4 | 92.1 | 39.0 | 83.9 | 92.9 | 98.1 | 39.9 | 98.0 | 6.5 | |
The Andersons, Inc. Food Distribution | $2.3B | 84.4 | +0.4 | 72.1 | 70.0 | 89.6 | 91.8 | 51.6 | 39.1 | 65.4 | 72.6 | 33.5 | |
Philip Morris International, Inc. Tobacco | $291.8B | 84.1 | +1.0 | 70.7 | 52.5 | 79.3 | 86.0 | 57.9 | 88.5 | 74.3 | 78.2 | 0.9 | |
Dollar General Corp. Discount Stores | $26.8B | 83.1 | +1.8 | 89.4 | 68.2 | 57.0 | 32.6 | 71.7 | 88.7 | 80.6 | 80.3 | 7.9 | |
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. Food Distribution | $4.5B | 82.6 | +0.2 | 98.3 | 48.6 | 98.2 | 91.1 | 46.3 | 48.9 | 56.1 | 37.4 | 24.6 | |
Interparfums, Inc. Household & Personal Products | $3.6B | 82.1 | +1.9 | 57.5 | 72.3 | 68.1 | 83.7 | 77.8 | 95.2 | 33.3 | 66.6 | 27.7 | |
Laureate Education, Inc. Education & Training Services | $5.1B | 81.3 | −0.5 | 76.2 | 51.8 | 92.8 | 83.0 | 27.2 | 53.8 | 86.3 | 85.5 | 23.0 | |
Guardian Pharmacy Services, Inc. Medical Care Facilities | $2.8B | 80.7 | −1.1 | 93.2 | 25.1 | 87.2 | 74.3 | 44.8 | 55.2 | 85.2 | 61.7 | 31.2 |
Today’s snapshot only — the list rotates as the scores move. Click any ticker for its full page: rank against every factor, analyst price targets, financials and news.
What these consumer staples stocks look like up close.
Figures for the 25 listed names, from the same data behind their stock pages.
13 of the 25 names with analyst coverage this month carry a Buy-or-better majority.
Cheapest on trailing P/E: M at 8.0×, ANDE at 13.2× and DLTR at 13.8×.
Highest forward dividend yields: MO at 6.5%, LAUR at 3.9% and SJM at 3.6%.
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Market Radar reports the week’s largest rank changes across roughly 4,600 US stocks and the factor behind each one. The names above will rotate as the scores move — the Radar is how you hear what changed.
Questions people ask about consumer staples stocks.
- What are the best consumer staples stocks right now?
- As at 21 Sept 2026, the top-ranked consumer staples stocks on Ticker Nerd's systematic factor model are The J. M. Smucker Co. (SJM), Target Corp. (TGT), Macy's, Inc. (M). The full top 25 is the table on this page, re-ranked every trading day. A rank is general information, not personal advice.
- How does Ticker Nerd pick the best consumer staples stocks?
- Nobody picks them. A factor model scores roughly 4,600 US stocks every trading day on families like value, momentum, quality and growth, and this page is one fixed cut of that ranking. The research process behind the model — point-in-time data from 2005, locked test windows, logged rejections — is published on the methodology page.
- Are consumer staples stocks a good investment?
- That depends on the price paid and on your circumstances — this page is general information, not advice. What the data says as at 21 Sept 2026: of the 25 listed names with analyst coverage this month, 13 carry a Buy-or-better majority, and every rank above is a percentile across roughly 4,600 US stocks.
The same model, other cuts.
Every list reads the one ranking — the stock screener index has the complete set.