Top 7 Consumer Stocks to Own in 2017

TheStreet looked at recommendations from analysts and broke it down even further, looking at seven of the best retail and consumer stocks from Credit Suisse's U.S. Focus List.

Author:: Edward Hardy
Publish date:: Apr 5, 2017 11:28 AM EDT

Retail and consumer stocks have been hit hard lately, due in large part to the rise of e-commerce and Amazon (AMZN) - Get Report seemingly swallowing up everything in its patch. But if investors look close enough, there are bargains out there that may have outsized returns.

Credit Suisse has put together a list of 140 "top ideas" covered by its analysts, using several parameters to weed out weaker companies and pick only the best ideas.

As part of the investment process, each analyst ranked up to three stocks on a six and twelve month time horizon, picking only "high conviction ideas." Since not every analyst had three stocks that could make the list, they were allowed to select fewer than three names.