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Best Consumer Staple Stocks to Buy Now (2025)

Top consumer staple stocks in 2025 ranked by overall Due Diligence Score. See the best consumer staple stocks to buy now, according to analyst forecasts for the consumer defensive sector.

According to Zen Ratings, our proprietary rating system that evaluates 115 factors proven to drive growth in stocks and assigns each stock in our system an overall letter grade as well as 7 individual Component Grades for Value, Growth, Momentum, Sentiment, Safety, Financials, and proprietary AI algorithms, the 3 best consumer staple stocks to buy right now are:

Lifevantage (NASDAQ:LFVN) is the #1 top consumer staple stock out of 256 with a Zen Rating of A. Stocks with a rating of A have had an average return of +32.52% per year. Learn more.

The Component Grade breakdown for Lifevantage (NASDAQ:LFVN) is: Value: A, Growth: A, Momentum: D, Sentiment: B, Safety: C, Financials: A, and AI: C.

Lifevantage (NASDAQ:LFVN) has a Due Diligence Score of 57, which is 27 points higher than the consumer staple sector average of 30. It passed 22 out of 38 due diligence checks and has strong fundamentals. Lifevantage has seen its stock return 55.89% over the past year, overperforming other consumer staple stocks by 88 percentage points.

Natural Grocers By Vitamin Cottage (NYSE:NGVC) is the #2 top consumer staple stock out of 256 with a Zen Rating of A. Stocks with a rating of A have had an average return of +32.52% per year. Learn more.

The Component Grade breakdown for Natural Grocers By Vitamin Cottage (NYSE:NGVC) is: Value: C, Growth: B, Momentum: C, Sentiment: A, Safety: C, Financials: B, and AI: C.

Natural Grocers By Vitamin Cottage (NYSE:NGVC) has a Due Diligence Score of 42, which is 12 points higher than the consumer staple sector average of 30. It passed 16 out of 38 due diligence checks and has strong fundamentals. Natural Grocers By Vitamin Cottage has seen its stock return 48.16% over the past year, overperforming other consumer staple stocks by 81 percentage points.

Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) is the #3 top consumer staple stock out of 256 with a Zen Rating of A. Stocks with a rating of A have had an average return of +32.52% per year. Learn more.

The Component Grade breakdown for Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) is: Value: B, Growth: C, Momentum: B, Sentiment: B, Safety: C, Financials: B, and AI: B.

Laureate Education (NASDAQ:LAUR) has a Due Diligence Score of 32, which is 2 points higher than the consumer staple sector average of 30. It passed 13 out of 38 due diligence checks and has average fundamentals. Laureate Education has seen its stock return 49.93% over the past year, overperforming other consumer staple stocks by 82 percentage points.

Laureate Education has an average 1 year price target of $24.00, an upside of 4.76% from Laureate Education's current stock price of $22.91.

Laureate Education stock has a consensus Buy recommendation according to Wall Street analysts. Of the 1 analyst covering Laureate Education, 0% have issued a Strong Buy rating, 100% have issued a Buy, 0% have issued a Hold, while 0% have issued a Sell rating, and 0% have issued a Strong Sell.

Out of 82 consumer staple stocks that have issued dividends in the past year, the 3 consumer staple stocks with the highest dividend yields are:

B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) has an annual dividend yield of 13.77%, which is 11 percentage points higher than the consumer staple sector average of 2.64%. B&G Foods's dividend payout is not stable, having dropped more than 10% one times in the last 10 years. B&G Foods's dividend has not shown consistent growth over the last 10 years.

B&G Foods's dividend payout ratio of -28.6% indicates that its high dividend yield might not be sustainable for the long-term.

Brasilagro Brazilian Agricultural Real Estate Co (NYSE:LND) has an annual dividend yield of 7.4%, which is 5 percentage points higher than the consumer staple sector average of 2.64%. Brasilagro Brazilian Agricultural Real Estate Co's dividend payout is not stable, having dropped more than 10% six times in the last 10 years. Brasilagro Brazilian Agricultural Real Estate Co's dividend has not shown consistent growth over the last 10 years.

Brasilagro Brazilian Agricultural Real Estate Co's dividend payout ratio of 68.7% indicates that its high dividend yield is sustainable for the long-term.

Altria Group (NYSE:MO) has an annual dividend yield of 6.6%, which is 4 percentage points higher than the consumer staple sector average of 2.64%. Altria Group's dividend payout is stable, having never dropped by more than 10% in the last 10 years. Altria Group's dividend has shown consistent growth over the last 10 years.

Altria Group's dividend payout ratio of 78.9% indicates that its high dividend yield is sustainable for the long-term.

Consumer staple stocks were down -0.35% in the last day, and down -1.88% over the last week. Ata Creativity Global was the among the top losers in the consumer defensive sector, dropping -51.35% yesterday.

AACG stock has given up its prior gain. ATA Creativity Global shares were trading higher after the company announced it will receive up to a $100 million investment from Baby Capital.

Based on the Valuation rating, one of the 7 components of a stocks overall Zen Ratings grade, which evaluates factors including estimated earnings yield, earnings before interest and taxes/enterprise value, cash flow yield, free cash flow to price, and price-to-earnings growth (PEG ratio), the 3 most undervalued consumer staple stocks right now are:

Herbalife (NYSE:HLF) is the most undervalued consumer staple stock based on its Valuation Rating of A. Valuation is one of 7 Component Grades used to calculate the overall Zen Rating.

Herbalife has a valuation score of 29, which is 5 points higher than the consumer staple sector average of 24. It passed 2 out of 7 valuation due diligence checks.

Herbalife's stock has dropped -18.61% in the past year. It has overperformed other stocks in the consumer staple sector by 14 percentage points.

Usana Health Sciences (NYSE:USNA) is the second most undervalued consumer staple stock based on its Valuation Rating of A. Valuation is one of 7 Component Grades used to calculate the overall Zen Rating.

Usana Health Sciences has a valuation score of 57, which is 33 points higher than the consumer staple sector average of 24. It passed 4 out of 7 valuation due diligence checks.

Usana Health Sciences's stock has dropped -33.43% in the past year. It has underperformed other stocks in the consumer staple sector by -1 percentage points.

Brf Sa (NYSE:BRFS) is the third most undervalued consumer staple stock based on its Valuation Rating of A. Valuation is one of 7 Component Grades used to calculate the overall Zen Rating.

Brf Sa has a valuation score of 29, which is 5 points higher than the consumer staple sector average of 24. It passed 2 out of 7 valuation due diligence checks.

Brf Sa's stock has dropped -3.74% in the past year. It has overperformed other stocks in the consumer staple sector by 29 percentage points.

34.85% of consumer staple stocks rated by analysts are a strong buy right now. On average, analysts expect consumer staple stocks to rise by 14.55% over the next year.

6.84% of consumer staple stocks have a Zen Rating of A (Strong Buy), 12.63% of consumer staple stocks are rated B (Buy), 67.37% are rated C (Hold), 10.53% are rated D (Sell), and 2.63% are rated F (Strong Sell).