Household Staples & Grocery

Recurring demand for groceries, beverages and household essentials supports a basket of staple-brand owners and essential-goods retailers. These businesses have advanced over the past month while technology shares have weakened, making the theme timely as a defensive alternative to crowded infrastructure trades. Valuation and retailer margin pressure remain risks; defensive demand does not guarantee defensive share prices. Launch basket (equal weight): PG, WMT, COST, KO, PEP, CL, KMB, KR 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.