12 Best Food Stocks to Buy in 2026

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5. Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NASDAQ:DPZ)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 52   

Analysts’ Upside Potential as of January 8: 21.55%   

Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NASDAQ:DPZ) is among the Best Food Stocks.

On January 8, 2026, TheFly reported that Evercore ISI analyst David Palmer kept Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NASDAQ:DPZ) at an Outperform rating and reduced the company’s price objective from $510 to $490. According to Evercore, 2025 was a challenging year for the fast food industry in the United States. In its 2026 forecast note for the restaurant business, the firm showed optimism regarding fiscal stimulus, stronger performance, and global expansion.

Stifel analyst Chris O’Cull reduced Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NASDAQ:DPZ) price objective from $510 to $485 in a separate note dated January 7, 2026, while maintaining a Buy rating. As reported by Stifel, a number of structural factors are coming together in the restaurant business, which the firm anticipates will result in a difficult operating environment in 2026. Stifel’s deeper industry look-ahead study for the market included the price target adjustment.

The stock is down by 2.97% YTD as of January 9, 2026.

Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NASDAQ:DPZ) is a restaurant company and franchiser with over 21,500 global outlets in over 90 international markets as of the end of the second quarter of 2025.

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