Inventory Days Benchmark — Retail Specialty
How many days of inventory does a typical Retail Specialty 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 26 listed Retail Specialty companies reporting in 2024, the median inventory position was 102.7 days of cost of goods sold sitting in stock. The fastest quarter of the panel held 59.1 days or fewer; the slowest quarter held 134.1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Lighting BLX | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 353.7 days | ASX filing | |
| Michael Hill MHJ | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 285.6 days | ASX filing | |
| RH RH | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 174.4 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Floor & Decor FND | US | 2025 (25 Dec 2025) | 156.6 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Super Retail Group SUL | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 142.9 days | ASX filing | |
| Ollie's Bargain Outlet OLLI | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 139.3 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Dick's Sporting Goods DKS | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 130.5 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Academy Sports + Outdoors ASO | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 130.0 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Williams-Sonoma WSM | US | 2025 (1 Feb 2026) | 121.4 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Nick Scali NCK | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 117.3 days | ASX filing | |
| Baby Bunting BBN | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 111.1 days | ASX filing | |
| Tractor Supply TSCO | US | 2025 (27 Dec 2025) | 109.5 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Harvey Norman HVN | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 107.1 days | ASX filing | |
| Ulta Beauty ULTA | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 100.3 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Adairs ADH | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 99.8 days | ASX filing | |
| Five Below FIVE | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 90.1 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Kogan.com KGN | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 89.1 days | ASX filing | |
| Burlington Stores BURL | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 72.1 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Bath & Body Works BBWI | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 63.8 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| TJX Companies TJX | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 60.1 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Adore Beauty ABY | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 59.5 days | ASX filing | |
| Best Buy BBY | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 58.2 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Ross Stores ROST | US | 2025 (31 Jan 2026) | 56.3 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| JB Hi-Fi JBH | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 53.3 days | ASX filing | |
| Chewy CHWY | US | 2025 (1 Feb 2026) | 35.1 days | 10-K (SEC EDGAR) | |
| Temple & Webster TPW | ASX | 2024 (30 Jun 2025) | 25.2 days | ASX filing |
What this means
This is the broadest segment in the dataset — everything from beauty (Ulta Beauty) and off-price fashion (TJX, Ross Stores, Burlington) to furniture (RH, Williams-Sonoma), electronics (Best Buy) and pet supplies (Chewy) on the US side, and consumer electronics, furniture, homewares and jewellery retailers (JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, Nick Scali, Adairs, Temple & Webster, Michael Hill) on the ASX side. Durable, considered-purchase categories — furniture, electronics, jewellery — carry materially more stock than fast-moving specialty categories, which is why the spread between the fastest and slowest quartile here is wider than in most other segments.
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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