Food and Restaurant Stocks: Prices and Tips

Before we get our hands on the food we eat, it must first go through a farming, processing and distributing chain. Then practice what you’ve learned with our free stock market simulation.

BEST RESTAURANT STOCKS

Restaurant stocks sitting comfortably at the top of the food chain:

Symbol Company
TXRH TEXAS ROADHOUSE INC
CAKE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC
CBRL CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE INC
BDL FLANIGAN’S ENTERPRISES INC
SBUX STARBUCKS CORP
PZZA PAPA JOHN’S INTERNATIONAL INC
RRGB RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC

POPULAR ORGANIC FOOD STOCKS

Organic food stocks that were huge in the last year:

Symbol Company
AMZN AMAZON INC.
UNFI UNITED NATURAL FOODS INC
HAIN HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP INC
SFM SPROUTS FARMERS MARKET INC
NGVC NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE INC
KR KROGER INC.
CAG CONAGRA BRANDS INC.
 

OTHER FOOD STOCKS

Here’s some other popular food stocks:

Symbol Company
CALM CAL-MAINE FOODS INC
TSN TYSON FOODS INC
JJSF J&J SNACK FOODS CORP
RMCF ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHOCOLATE FACTORY INC
CMG CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC
MCD MCDONALDS INC
HSY THE HERSEY CO
CPB CAMPBELLSOUP CO

ABOUT THE FOOD & RESTAURANT INDUSTRY

As humans, we require food. That need to eat isn’t going anywhere, so food will always be in both high demand and high production. This makes their stock a stable and profitable one to own – either through commodities, restaurant stocks, packaged food stocks or grocery store stocks.

Here are three subsets of the food industry:

Farming

Farming includes all businesses involved in the production and collection of raw agricultural commodities. This includes things like corn, wheat, soybeans, rice etc.

Processing

Next those raw material foods must be processed into forms that may be more easily distributed and later sold to consumers.

Distributing

The next step is getting the finished or unfinished food products into the hands of hungry consumers. Grocers are the distributors for “unfinished” food products (customers will buy them and cook meals at home), while both fast food and upscale restaurants distribute finished products.


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