Inventory Days Benchmark — FMCG Household & Personal Care
How many days of inventory does a typical FMCG Household & Personal Care business hold? This page tracks the listed companies in this segment — inventory days (DIO), the spread between the fastest and slowest quartile, and where Australian and American peers diverge, built from company filings, not survey responses.
Explore the full interactive tool, filter by segment, or enter your own numbers →Across 13 listed FMCG Household & Personal Care companies reporting in 2024, the median inventory position was 91.0 days of cost of goods sold sitting in stock. The fastest quarter of the panel held 66.0 days or fewer; the slowest quarter held 139.5 days or more.
By listing venue
Published separately because the two panels aren't measuring the same thing until a venue clears a minimum of four reporting peers — below that, a "median" is an anecdote, not a benchmark.
The named companies
Each row is that company's own latest reported fiscal year — not all companies report on the same calendar, so years vary by row.
| Company | Exchange | Latest FY | Inventory days | Trend | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansell ANN | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 161.5 days | ASX filing | |
| e.l.f. Beauty ELF | US | 2025 (31 Mar 2026) | 155.2 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Energizer Holdings ENR | US | 2025 (30 Sep 2025) | 152.6 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| McPherson's MCP | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 141.7 days | ASX filing | |
| Coty COTY | US | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 137.3 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Edgewell Personal Care EPC | US | 2025 (30 Sep 2025) | 135.2 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Spectrum Brands SPB | US | 2025 (30 Sep 2025) | 93.3 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Colgate-Palmolive CL | US | 2025 (31 Dec 2025) | 90.2 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Reynolds Consumer Products REYN | US | 2025 (31 Dec 2025) | 74.8 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Procter & Gamble PG | US | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 64.6 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Church & Dwight CHD | US | 2025 (31 Dec 2025) | 61.1 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Clorox CLX | US | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 54.4 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Kimberly-Clark KMB | US | 2025 (31 Dec 2025) | 50.8 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) |
What this means
Household and personal-care manufacturers run a high SKU count per factory — dozens of pack sizes and fragrance or formulation variants of the same base product — which pushes inventory days up versus a narrower food line. US majors (Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark) and the two ASX names in this panel (McPherson's, Ansell) sit in a broadly similar band for the same underlying reason: SKU proliferation, not inefficiency.
How this is calculated
Inventory days (DIO) is calculated as 365 × average inventory ÷ COGS, with the balance averaged against the prior year where one exists so a single year-end stock date can't distort the figure. US figures come from each company's own 10-K, pulled from the SEC's XBRL company-facts API. Australian figures come from each company's statutory accounts as rendered by Yahoo Finance, linking through to the company's ASX page — a weaker chain of custody than the US half, one step removed from the primary filing rather than pulled from it directly. Australian coverage runs three benchmark years (2022–2024) against eight for the US, because only a handful of fiscal years of ASX data are obtainable this way.
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