How are consumer staples stocks doing?
Food, drink, household goods and the stores that sell them: what people buy in any economy. Here is how they have done as a group against the S&P 500, and which of them are leading and lagging.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Lagging
Consumer staples stocks are down 2% over the past year as an equal-weighted group, against +16% for the S&P 500. 15 of 60 beat the index. Darling Ingredients (DAR) leads at +91% and BellRing Brands (BRBR) trails at −75%. Over the past month the group is −1%, against +3% for the S&P.
The past year
The group against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Select a stock in the table to chart it against the group.
All 60 consumer staples stocks
Sorted by the past year’s return. Select a row to chart the stock against the group, or its ticker to open its page. Select a column to sort.
| Stock | P3 | 1M | 3M | YTD | 1Y | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAR Darling Ingredients | 83Strong | −9.2% | −3% | +67% | +91% | Bellwether |
| TGT Target | 37Middling | −1.3% | +14% | +57% | +70% | Speculative Pop |
| COKE Coca-Cola Consolidated | 77Strong | +3.9% | +10% | +28% | +64% | Bellwether |
| DLTR Dollar Tree | 33Weak | 0% | −6% | −4% | +35% | Speculative Pop |
| KO Coca-Cola | 62Middling | +0.3% | +5% | +26% | +33% | Hot Hand |
| PM Philip Morris International | 44Middling | +6.0% | +12% | +25% | +30% | Hot Hand |
| DG Dollar General | 65Middling | +3.4% | +3% | −4% | +30% | Hot Hand |
| FRPT Freshpet | 77Strong | −1.7% | +15% | +5% | +29% | Bellwether |
| ADM Archer Daniels Midland | 53Middling | −8.1% | −3% | +39% | +28% | Churning Winner |
| USFD US Foods | 11Weak | +1.4% | −4% | +29% | +28% | Exhausted Rally |
| MNST Monster Beverage | 75Strong | +1.3% | −10% | +14% | +27% | Distribution Top |
| BG Bunge Global | 30Weak | −17.5% | −12% | +15% | +25% | Churning Winner |
| KDP Keurig Dr Pepper | 62Middling | +1.0% | +2% | +13% | +24% | Hot Hand |
| CART Maplebear | 48Middling | +1.1% | −1% | +6% | +20% | Hot Hand |
| CASY Casey's | 49Middling | +3.0% | −25% | +17% | +17% | Churning Winner |
| SEB Seaboard | 54Middling | −7.5% | −16% | −11% | +14% | Rolling Over |
| SJM J.M. Smucker | 23Weak | −1.0% | +8% | +23% | +13% | Speculative Pop |
| CL Colgate-Palmolive | 31Weak | +0.4% | −5% | +12% | +13% | Exhausted Rally |
| BJ BJ's Wholesale Club | 28Weak | +10.0% | +9% | +9% | +11% | Speculative Pop |
| MO Altria | 28Weak | +4.2% | 0% | +24% | +10% | Hot Hand |
| CHD Church & Dwight | 50Middling | +4.4% | +1% | +17% | +10% | Churning Winner |
| KVUE Kenvue | 69Strong | −0.5% | −8% | +3% | +10% | Distribution Top |
| WMT Walmart | 29Weak | +5.3% | −3% | 0% | +8% | Exhausted Rally |
| COST Costco | 35Middling | +4.9% | +2% | +10% | +4% | Turning Up |
| EL Estée Lauder Companies | 57Middling | +1.6% | +21% | −6% | +2% | Coiled Spring |
| TSN Tyson Foods | 21Weak | +1.8% | −8% | −9% | +2% | Broken Year |
| PG Procter & Gamble | 40Middling | +5.8% | +2% | +6% | 0% | Bottom Fished |
| SYY Sysco | 26Weak | −5.1% | −6% | +6% | −1% | Broken Year |
| MDLZ Mondelez International | 23Weak | −3.3% | +1% | +12% | −2% | Falling Knife |
| BF.A Brown–Forman | 42Middling | −0.3% | +1% | +2% | −2% | Sleepy Staple |
| PFGC Performance Food | 28Weak | +0.6% | −16% | +6% | −5% | Show-Me Grower |
| BF.B Brown–Forman | 37Middling | −0.8% | +1% | +1% | −5% | Broken Year |
| REYN Reynolds Consumer Products | 34Middling | +2.0% | −16% | −4% | −9% | Sleepy Staple |
| PEP PepsiCo | 30Weak | −7.8% | −9% | −12% | −9% | Show-Me Grower |
| KR Kroger | 24Weak | +8.2% | +4% | −1% | −10% | Falling Knife |
| KHC Kraft Heinz | 14Weak | −8.7% | −12% | −8% | −11% | Falling Knife |
| PRMB Primo Brands | 31Weak | −6.3% | −19% | +18% | −12% | Broken Year |
| STZ Constellation Brands | 15Weak | −0.9% | −9% | −11% | −14% | Broken Year |
| SFD Smithfield Foods | 22Weak | −9.6% | −25% | −17% | −16% | Broken Year |
| HSY Hershey | 36Middling | −6.7% | −7% | −11% | −17% | Turning Up |
| KMB Kimberly-Clark | 21Weak | −0.9% | −11% | −3% | −18% | Sleepy Staple |
| TAP Molson Coors Beverage | 15Weak | −3.2% | −7% | −20% | −18% | Broken Year |
| HRL Hormel Foods | 5Weak | −7.9% | −22% | −19% | −20% | Broken Year |
| INGR Ingredion | 22Weak | −6.0% | −4% | −14% | −22% | Sleepy Staple |
| SAM Boston Beer | 28Weak | +0.6% | −1% | −13% | −23% | Falling Knife |
| ELF e.l.f. Beauty | 44Middling | +14.1% | +45% | +44% | −25% | Coiled Spring |
| LW Lamb Weston | 19Weak | +1.2% | +2% | +14% | −25% | Turning Up |
| PPC Pilgrim's Pride | 15Weak | −4.3% | 0% | −27% | −25% | Falling Knife |
| CAG Conagra Brands | 14Weak | −8.2% | −6% | −22% | −28% | Broken Year |
| CLX Clorox | 16Weak | −5.6% | −12% | −17% | −30% | Broken Year |
| POST Post | 24Weak | −6.8% | −14% | −24% | −30% | Show-Me Grower |
| ACI Albertsons | 23Weak | +4.2% | −18% | −29% | −30% | Broken Year |
| MKC McCormick & | 31Weak | −12.3% | −17% | −34% | −32% | Show-Me Grower |
| COTY Coty | 20Weak | +8.4% | +27% | −7% | −34% | Bottom Fished |
| GIS General Mills | 15Weak | −10.2% | −12% | −31% | −35% | Falling Knife |
| CPB Campbell's | 15Weak | −8.3% | −13% | −31% | −37% | Falling Knife |
| SFM Sprouts Farmers Market | 28Weak | −9.8% | −18% | −18% | −38% | Bottom Fished |
| FLO Flowers Foods | 11Weak | −4.9% | −30% | −47% | −54% | Sleepy Staple |
| CELH Celsius | 19Weak | +7.3% | −4% | −38% | −55% | Coiled Spring |
| BRBR BellRing Brands | 13Weak | −8.1% | −33% | −68% | −75% | Sleepy Staple |
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Every stock in the Consumer Staples sector (the GICS classification) among the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 companies with a page here, The group is equal-weighted, so each company counts the same whatever its size, and returns are share-price changes from daily closes.
Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep; scores from Stox.
An equal-weighted group can read quite differently from a sector fund, which gives the biggest companies the most weight.
P3 is Stox’s combined score of market beat, staying power and business growth, from 0 to 100. Type is the stock’s Stox Atlas type. Both describe the past year, not what comes next.
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