Best Beverages - Brewers Stocks in Consumer Defensive for 2026
Top-ranked Beverages - Brewers stocks within the Consumer Defensive sector. Global and regional brewers are defensive cash compounders with branded pricing power and modest volume growth, so Quality and Health outweigh Growth here.
Brewers (global beer majors plus regional champions) are defensive cash compounders with branded pricing power and modest volume growth. The Quality pillar (gross margin, ROIC) and the Health pillar (interest coverage on the deal-debt-heavy cohort) do most of the work in composite ranking; Growth is intentionally low-weighted.
Data as of (updated daily)
Top 20 Beverages - Brewers stocks in Consumer Defensive by composite score
| # | Ticker | Name | Composite |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 000729.SHE | Beijing Yanjing Brewery Co Ltd | 72.1 |
| 2 | 600600.SHG | Tsingtao Brewery Co Ltd | 72.0 |
| 3 | 002461.SHE | Guangzhou Zhujiang Brewery Co Ltd | 71.5 |
| 4 | 000752.SHE | Tibet Galaxy Science & Technology Development Co Ltd | 70.2 |
| 5 | ABEV.US | Ambev SA ADR | 69.3 |
| 6 | 600132.SHG | Chongqing Brewery Co Ltd | 67.7 |
| 7 | 600573.SHG | FuJian YanJing HuiQuan Brewery Co Ltd | 62.8 |
| 8 | MLBI.JK | Multi Bintang Indonesia Tbk | 62.6 |
| 9 | DLTA.JK | Delta Djakarta Tbk | 62.5 |
| 10 | MALT.PA | Malteries Franco-Belges Société Anonyme | 62.4 |
| 11 | ABEV3.SA | Ambev S.A. | 62.3 |
| 12 | ABEVN.MX | Ambev S.A | 61.9 |
| 13 | 001338.SHE | GDH Supertime Group Co. Ltd. A | 61.4 |
| 14 | 2836.KLSE | Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia Bhd | 61.2 |
| 15 | HEIO.AS | Heineken Holding NV | 60.6 |
| 16 | 1NBA.XETRA | Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV | 60.2 |
| 17 | FMXB34.SA | Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. | 59.3 |
| 18 | BUD.US | Anheuser Busch Inbev NV ADR | 58.5 |
| 19 | HEIA.AS | Heineken | 57.0 |
| 20 | 0168.HK | Tsingtao Brew | 55.9 |
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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 Beverages - Brewers industry under Consumer Defensive. Use the screener for the full ranked list.