Best Grocery Stores Stocks for 2026

Grocers earn thin, low single-digit margins on high inventory turn but stay defensive across cycles; EV/EBITDA drives Valuation given lease accounting.

Grocery Stores earn low single-digit operating margins on high inventory turn with strong defensiveness across cycles. Composite scoring weights the Quality pillar (consistency of operating margin) and the Health pillar (lease-adjusted leverage); Valuation pillar uses EV/EBITDA rather than headline P/E given the lease accounting.

Data as of (updated daily)

Top 20 Grocery Stores stocks by composite score

#TickerNameComposite
13686.HKClifford Modern Living Holdings Ltd70.3
2KK.BKK&K Superstore Southern Public Company Limited67.7
32360.HKBest Mart 360 Holdings Ltd65.3
4S2FM34.SASprouts Farmers Market, Inc.65.2
5VLGEA.USVillage Super Market Inc63.5
6NGVC.USNatural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc63.2
7TNP.BKThanapiriya Public Company Limited62.9
8SFM.USSprouts Farmers Market LLC60.5
9MIDI.JKMidi Utama Indonesia Tbk59.7
100831.HKConvenience Retail Asia Ltd59.3
11IMKTA.USIngles Markets Incorporated58.8
12SAE.TAShufersal57.7
13AHOG.XETRAKoninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV56.1
14WMK.USWeis Markets Inc56.1
15CHDRAUIB.MXGrupo Comercial Chedraui S.A.B. de C.V55.9
16282330.KOBGF Retail Co Ltd55.8
17OCDO.LSEOcado Group PLC55.1
182321.HKSwang Chai Chuan Ltd.53.8
19AMRT.JKSumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk53.2
20MSS.USMaison Solutions Inc53.1

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Methodology: How we score stocks. Data refreshed nightly around 03:30 ET. This page lists the top 20 by composite score; use the screener for the full ranked list.

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