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Consumer Defensive
Companies that manufacture food, beverages, household and personal products, packaging, or tobacco. Also includes companies that provide services such as education and training services. Companies in this sector include Philip Morris International, Procter & Gamble, and Walmart.
Market Cap
4.134T
Market Weight
5.31%
Industries
12
Companies
252
Consumer Defensive S&P 500 ^GSPC
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Day Return

Sector
0.00%
S&P 500
0.05%

YTD Return

Sector
15.13%
S&P 500
0.87%

1-Year Return

Sector
10.30%
S&P 500
12.96%

3-Year Return

Sector
34.10%
S&P 500
67.12%

5-Year Return

Sector
43.81%
S&P 500
73.83%

Note: Sector performance is calculated based on the previous closing price of all sector constituents

Industries in This Sector

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IndustryMarket WeightYTD Return
All Industries
100.00%
15.13%
Discount Stores
40.16%
19.03%
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
18.62%
11.58%
Household & Personal Products
14.99%
11.84%
Tobacco
9.86%
16.42%
Packaged Foods
5.09%
7.67%
Confectioners
3.07%
17.65%
Food Distribution
2.20%
22.26%
Farm Products
2.19%
18.57%
Grocery Stores
1.64%
8.55%
Beverages - Brewers
0.94%
10.54%
Education & Training Services
0.87%
-2.41%
Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries
0.37%
13.65%

Note: Percentage % data on heatmap indicates Day Return

All Industries

Discount Stores
0.01%
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
-0.18%
Household & Personal Products
-0.01%
Tobacco
-0.25%
Packaged Foods
1.05%
Confectioners
-0.15%
Food Distribution
0.44%
Farm Products
-0.23%
Grocery Stores
-0.11%
Beverages - Brewers
-0.02%
Education & Training Services
0.00%
Beverages - Wineries & Distilleries
0.07%

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Largest Companies in This Sector

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Name
Last Price
1Y Target Est.
Market Weight
Market Cap
Day Change %
YTD Return
Avg. Analyst Rating
133.89 129.03 26.10% 1.067T +0.19% +20.18%
Strong Buy
1,018.48 1,047.90 11.06% 452.162B +1.96% +18.11%
Buy
160.07 167.46 9.15% 374.041B -0.71% +11.69%
Buy
78.68 82.49 8.28% 338.451B -0.41% +12.54%
Buy
187.51 192.53 7.14% 291.893B -0.76% +16.90%
Buy
165.94 170.24 5.55% 226.896B -0.75% +15.62%
Hold
67.25 63.25 2.76% 112.891B +0.36% +16.63%
Buy
62.59 67.00 1.97% 80.764B +1.18% +16.27%
Buy
81.48 80.77 1.95% 79.608B +0.38% +6.27%
Buy
96.67 95.79 1.91% 78.131B +0.52% +22.34%
Buy

Investing in the Consumer Defensive Sector

Start Investing in the Consumer Defensive Sector Through These ETFs and Mutual Funds

ETF Opportunities

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Name
Last Price
Net Assets
Expense Ratio
YTD Return
89.51 16.153B 0.08% +15.23%
242.63 9.046B 0.09% +14.86%
56.57 1.39B 0.08% +15.00%
75.81 1.236B 0.38% +13.28%
73.27 954.608M 0.39% +13.33%

Mutual Fund Opportunities

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Name
Last Price
Net Assets
Expense Ratio
YTD Return
119.67 9.046B 0.09% +14.95%
92.08 1.102B 0.71% +13.96%
90.01 1.102B 0.71% +13.88%
94.90 1.102B 0.71% +14.04%
93.45 1.102B 0.71% +13.99%

Consumer Defensive Research

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Discover the Latest Analyst and Technical Research for This Sector

  • Analyst Report: The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

    Estée Lauder is a leader in the global prestige beauty market, participating across skin care (49% of fiscal 2025 sales), makeup (29%), fragrance (17%), and hair care and others (5%). Top selling brands include Estée Lauder, Clinique, M.A.C, La Mer, Jo Malone London, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, and Origins. The firm operates in more than 150 countries, generating 31% of revenue from the Americas, 37% from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (including travel retail), and 32% from Asia-Pacific. Estée Lauder sells its products through department stores, travel retail, specialty multibrand beauty stores, brand-dedicated freestanding stores, e-commerce, salons/spas, and perfumeries.

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  • Analyst Report: The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V.

    The Magnum Ice Cream Company is a spinoff from Unilever, focused on manufacturing and selling a broad portfolio of ice-cream brands. The company is a global category leader, operating in 80 countries with around 21% market share. TMICC owns four of the world’s five largest ice-cream brands: the Heartbrand (an “umbrella” brand with numerous well-known sub-brands, which constitutes around 35% of sales), Magnum (23%), Ben & Jerry’s (14%), and Cornetto (9%). The business generates about 65% of its revenue in developed markets, with the balance coming from emerging markets.

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  • Analyst Report: Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV

    Anheuser-Busch InBev is the largest brewer in the world and one of the world's top five consumer product companies, as measured by EBITDA. The company's portfolio contains six of the top 10 beer brands by volume, according to Euromonitor, and we estimate it distributes 23 brands with retail sales over $1 billion. AB InBev was created by the 2008 merger of Belgium-based InBev and US-based Anheuser-Busch. The firm holds a 62% economic interest in Ambev, an 87% stake in Budweiser APAC, and in 2016 it acquired SABMiller.

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  • Analyst Report: Constellation Brands, Inc.

    Constellation Brands is the largest provider of alcoholic beverages across the beer, wine, and spirits categories in the US, generating 84% of revenue from Mexican beer imports under top-selling brands such as Modelo and Corona. The rest of the business includes some remaining wine and spirits brands, categories where the company has pruned assets in recent years. With its exclusive rights tied to the Mexican beer brands, effective only in the US, the firm has limited revenue exposure to international markets. Constellation owns a 10% stake in Canopy Growth, a medicinal and recreational cannabis producer in Canada, and has a 50/50 joint venture with glass manufacturer Owens-Illinois in Mexico.

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