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 | 70.3 |
| 2 | KK.BK | K&K Superstore Southern Public Company Limited | 67.7 |
| 3 | 2360.HK | Best Mart 360 Holdings Ltd | 65.3 |
| 4 | S2FM34.SA | Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. | 65.2 |
| 5 | VLGEA.US | Village Super Market Inc | 63.5 |
| 6 | NGVC.US | Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc | 63.2 |
| 7 | TNP.BK | Thanapiriya Public Company Limited | 62.9 |
| 8 | SFM.US | Sprouts Farmers Market LLC | 60.5 |
| 9 | MIDI.JK | Midi Utama Indonesia Tbk | 59.7 |
| 10 | 0831.HK | Convenience Retail Asia Ltd | 59.3 |
| 11 | IMKTA.US | Ingles Markets Incorporated | 58.8 |
| 12 | SAE.TA | Shufersal | 57.7 |
| 13 | AHOG.XETRA | Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV | 56.1 |
| 14 | WMK.US | Weis Markets Inc | 56.1 |
| 15 | CHDRAUIB.MX | Grupo Comercial Chedraui S.A.B. de C.V | 55.9 |
| 16 | 282330.KO | BGF Retail Co Ltd | 55.8 |
| 17 | OCDO.LSE | Ocado Group PLC | 55.1 |
| 18 | 2321.HK | Swang Chai Chuan Ltd. | 53.8 |
| 19 | AMRT.JK | Sumber Alfaria Trijaya Tbk | 53.2 |
| 20 | MSS.US | Maison Solutions Inc | 53.1 |
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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.