Food & Drink: Grocers, Brands & Restaurants

Own everyday food and beverage spending across packaged brands, grocery retailers and restaurant operators rather than betting on a single sales channel. PepsiCo at 14.9x forward earnings and McDonald's at 17.1x offer a valuation-conscious starting point, while grocery retail and coffee broaden the demand exposure. This is a consumer food-spending basket, not a general consumer-brand or retail portfolio; commodity costs and price-sensitive customers remain key risks. Launch basket (equal weight): PEP, KO, WMT, COST, MCD, MDLZ, CMG, SBUX Rules: 1. No inverse, leveraged or volatility ETFs. 2. Only names tradable at the enrolled brokers (Moomoo): no OTC listings, no dead tickers, nothing on the refused list.