Best Dividend Stocks in Grocery Stores for 2026

Reliable dividend payers with sustainable yields, screened on payout ratio and balance-sheet health.

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 Jun 19, 2026 (updated daily)

Top 20 Grocery Stores stocks by composite score

#	Ticker	Name	Sector	Composite	P/E
1	3686.HK	Clifford Modern Living Holdings Ltd	Consumer Defensive	69.7	2.3
2	2360.HK	Best Mart 360 Holdings Ltd	Consumer Defensive	64.5	7.8
3	CAR.XETRA	Carrefour SA	Consumer Defensive	57.9	11.3
4	CBOX.LSE	Cake Box Holdings PLC	Consumer Defensive	47.6	20.0
5	603886.SHG	Ganso Co Ltd	Consumer Defensive	44.7	33.0
6	SBRY.LSE	J Sainsbury PLC	Consumer Defensive	50.9	19.4
7	ACI.US	Albertsons Companies	Consumer Defensive	30.4	38.5
8	TNP.BK	Thanapiriya Public Company Limited	Consumer Defensive	65.8	10.3
9	CPALL.BK	CP ALL Public Company Limited	Consumer Defensive	45.7	13.9
10	AD.AS	Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV	Consumer Defensive	51.1	14.3
11	AHOG.XETRA	Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize NV	Consumer Defensive	52.6	14.4
12	7035.KLSE	CCK Consolidated Holdings Bhd	Consumer Defensive	54.8	12.0
13	282330.KO	BGF Retail Co Ltd	Consumer Defensive	56.9	-
14	TSCO.LSE	Tesco PLC	Consumer Defensive	50.8	17.2
15	NWC.TO	North West Company Inc	Consumer Defensive	51.7	18.0
16	COL.AU	Coles Group Ltd	Consumer Defensive	50.9	30.8
17	WOW.AU	Woolworths Group Ltd	Consumer Defensive	48.3	77.8
18	KR.US	Kroger Company	Consumer Defensive	42.8	40.4
19	NGVC.US	Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc	Consumer Defensive	64.3	14.0
20	WMK.US	Weis Markets Inc	Consumer Defensive	55.6	18.0

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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 within the Grocery Stores industry; use the screener for the full ranked list.