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 Ltd70.9
22360.HKBest Mart 360 Holdings Ltd66.2
3S2FM34.SASprouts Farmers Market, Inc.65.5
4TNP.BKThanapiriya Public Company Limited65.2
5KK.BKK&K Superstore Southern Public Company Limited63.7
6VLGEA.USVillage Super Market Inc63.3
7NGVC.USNatural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc63.1
8MIDI.JKMidi Utama Indonesia Tbk63.0
9SFM.USSprouts Farmers Market LLC60.1
100831.HKConvenience Retail Asia Ltd57.8
117035.KLSECCK Consolidated Holdings Bhd57.3
12IMKTA.USIngles Markets Incorporated57.1
13282330.KOBGF Retail Co Ltd56.9
14CHDRAUIB.MXGrupo Comercial Chedraui S.A.B. de C.V56.0
15OCDO.LSEOcado Group PLC55.4
16RMLI.TARami Levi54.8
17AHOG.XETRAKoninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV54.5
18WMK.USWeis Markets Inc53.8
19601116.SHGSanjiang Shopping Club Co Ltd53.8
202321.HKSwang 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.

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