All stocks

Consumer Staples

-1.75%

median, today

Consumer Staples fell 1.8% today, measured as the median of its 33 companies — 2 rose and 28 fell.

The median rather than an average, so one company collapsing on an earnings miss does not become what the whole sector did.

Furthest from the sector

The companies that moved least like their peers today — where a sector-wide explanation stops working.

All 33 companies

Describes moves that have already happened. Not a forecast, and not advice.