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
| # | Ticker | Name | Composite |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3686.HK | Clifford Modern Living Holdings Ltd | 70.9 |
| 2 | 2360.HK | Best Mart 360 Holdings Ltd | 66.2 |
| 3 | S2FM34.SA | Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. | 65.5 |
| 4 | TNP.BK | Thanapiriya Public Company Limited | 65.2 |
| 5 | KK.BK | K&K Superstore Southern Public Company Limited | 63.7 |
| 6 | VLGEA.US | Village Super Market Inc | 63.3 |
| 7 | NGVC.US | Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc | 63.1 |
| 8 | MIDI.JK | Midi Utama Indonesia Tbk | 63.0 |
| 9 | SFM.US | Sprouts Farmers Market LLC | 60.1 |
| 10 | 0831.HK | Convenience Retail Asia Ltd | 57.8 |
| 11 | 7035.KLSE | CCK Consolidated Holdings Bhd | 57.3 |
| 12 | IMKTA.US | Ingles Markets Incorporated | 57.1 |
| 13 | 282330.KO | BGF Retail Co Ltd | 56.9 |
| 14 | CHDRAUIB.MX | Grupo Comercial Chedraui S.A.B. de C.V | 56.0 |
| 15 | OCDO.LSE | Ocado Group PLC | 55.4 |
| 16 | RMLI.TA | Rami Levi | 54.8 |
| 17 | AHOG.XETRA | Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV | 54.5 |
| 18 | WMK.US | Weis Markets Inc | 53.8 |
| 19 | 601116.SHG | Sanjiang Shopping Club Co Ltd | 53.8 |
| 20 | 2321.HK | Swang Chai Chuan Ltd. | 53.8 |
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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.