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Retailers and consumer-brand companies sell the everyday goods households buy on repeat, competing on scale, supply chain, and pricing. Because demand is steady but margins are thin, small moves in traffic, input costs, or private-label mix matter a great deal.
| # | Company | Price | Day | Market cap | P/E | Health | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WMT Walmart Walmart operates roughly 10,500 stores worldwide, including Sam's Club warehouses, with groceries generating most of its US volume. | $113.90 | +1.51% | $906.4B | 41.7× | 5/7 | Open → |
| 2 | COST Costco Costco runs a membership warehouse model: annual fees, not product markups, supply most of its operating profit. | $916.25 | +0.36% | $406.3B | 50.3× | 6/8 | Open → |
| 3 | KO Coca-Cola Coca-Cola mostly sells concentrate, leaving bottling and distribution to independent partners, which keeps its own margins high. | $83.49 | +1.04% | $359.2B | 27.5× | 6/8 | Open → |
| 4 | PG Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble makes household and personal care staples sold in about 180 countries: Tide detergent, Pampers diapers, Gillette razors, Crest toothpaste, Dawn dish soap, Charmin. | $147.04 | +0.13% | $342.4B | 22.6× | 5/7 | Open → |
| 5 | HD Home Depot Home Depot is the largest home improvement retailer, with about 2,300 big-box stores in North America. | $343.30 | +1.35% | $342.3B | 24.1× | 5/9 | Open → |
| 6 | MCD McDonald's About 95% of McDonald's 43,000-plus restaurants belong to franchisees, so the company's income comes mainly from rent and royalties rather than burger sales. | $274.60 | -0.68% | $195.1B | 23× | 4/7 | Open → |
| 7 | PEP PepsiCo Snacks, not soda, are PepsiCo's profit engine: Frito-Lay brands like Lay's, Doritos, and Cheetos join Quaker foods alongside the beverage lineup of Pepsi, Gatorade, and Mountain Dew. | $137.38 | -0.35% | $187.5B | 22.9× | 4/8 | Open → |
| 8 | SBUX Starbucks Roughly 40,000 Starbucks stores split between company-operated locations, concentrated in North America and China, and licensed ones elsewhere. | $106.01 | -0.38% | $120.8B | 65× | 6/8 | Open → |
| 9 | LOW Lowe's Lowe's stocks home improvement goods across about 1,700 US stores, skewing more toward do-it-yourself shoppers than Home Depot's contractor-heavy mix. | $211.63 | -0.64% | $118.7B | 17.9× | 6/9 | Open → |
| 10 | TGT Target Target sells general merchandise and groceries through nearly 2,000 US stores, which also fulfill most of its digital orders. | $135.14 | +2.17% | $61.4B | 16.6× | 6/8 | Open → |
| 11 | NKE Nike Nike designs athletic footwear and apparel, contracts production to factories in Vietnam, Indonesia, and China, and sells through both wholesale partners and its own Nike Direct stores and apps. | $44.37 | +3.72% | $38.0B | 20.5× | 3/8 | Open → |
Company groupings are curated; figures are real — market caps and prices from EOD market data, health from SEC XBRL filings, and the smart-money activity from Form 4 and STOCK Act disclosures. Educational only, not financial advice.