Consumer Defensive
Aggregate consumer defensive sector across 357 actively listed NSE/BSE companies. Combined market cap is ₹28.44 L cr — approximately 6.6% of the tracked Indian equity universe. The average 1-day move across constituents today is +0.50%.
The names that move the sector.
Top 15 consumer defensive constituents by market cap. In most sectors, the top 5-10 names dominate the cap-weight; equal-weight performance and cap-weight performance diverge meaningfully — both views tell different stories about the sector.
| Rank | Symbol | Company | Market cap | P/E | ROE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | HINDUNILVR | Hindustan Unilever Limited | ₹5.17 L cr | 48.62 | 21.60% |
| #2 | ITC | ITC Limited | ₹3.66 L cr | 17.69 | 29.34% |
| #3 | NESTLEIND | Nestlé India Limited | ₹2.75 L cr | 78.74 | 76.34% |
| #4 | DMART | Avenue Supermarts Limited | ₹2.69 L cr | 90.06 | 12.94% |
| #5 | VBL | Varun Beverages Limited | ₹1.81 L cr | 56.88 | — |
| #6 | BRITANNIA | Britannia Industries Limited | ₹1.29 L cr | 50.79 | 53.31% |
| #7 | TATACONSUM | Tata Consumer Products Limited | ₹1.19 L cr | 77.54 | 6.94% |
| #8 | MARICO | Marico Limited | ₹1.08 L cr | 61.52 | 41.39% |
| #9 | GODREJCP | Godrej Consumer Products Limited | ₹1.07 L cr | 57.72 | 15.10% |
| #10 | UNITDSPR | United Spirits Limited | ₹92.4k cr | 52.63 | 20.03% |
| #11 | DABUR | Dabur India Limited | ₹78.7k cr | 41.67 | 16.24% |
| #12 | COLPAL | Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited | ₹56.1k cr | 42.28 | 81.59% |
| #13 | RADICO | Radico Khaitan Limited | ₹46.1k cr | 76.36 | — |
| #14 | UBL | United Breweries Limited | ₹34.0k cr | 82.54 | 9.29% |
| #15 | PWL | Physicswallah Limited | ₹30.5k cr | — | -0.79% |
Sectors of comparable weight.
Adjacent sectors in cap-rank — sectors that compete for the same passive flow allocations.
Constituents tagged by NSE/BSE; aggregates computed in-house.
Each stock's sector classification follows NSE/BSE industry tagging under the AMFI Industry Classification framework. Sector cap is the sum of constituent market caps; the 1-day average % move is the equal-weight mean of constituents' daily change (not cap-weighted, so that the top 2-3 names don't dominate the breadth signal).
Stocks with active = 0 (delisted, suspended, merged-away) are excluded; stocks without a live price today are excluded from the average move but counted in the member count. The top-constituents table is ordered by market cap (in INR lakhs from wp_mb_stocks.mcap_inr_lakhs) and uses the screener's join to include P/E and ROE. Full methodology · reviewed January 2026.
Sector classifications follow NSE/BSE industry tagging. MintByte is an AMFI-registered mutual fund distributor (ARN-314872); SEBI Registered Investment Adviser and Research Analyst registrations are in process. Not investment advice.