Most shorted Australian consumer goods stocks

Food, beverages, agriculture, household and personal products. 12 classified Australia companies, ranked by disclosed short positions as of 7 Oct 2026. Sector average 4.61%.

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Plain

Short position data for Australian consumer goods stocks: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 7 Oct 2026. https://howshorted.com/au/sectors/consumer-goods/

Wikipedia

<ref>{{cite web |title=Australian consumer goods stocks short position data |url=https://howshorted.com/au/sectors/consumer-goods/ |website=HowShorted |publisher=howshorted.com (data: ASIC) |date=2026-10-07 |access-date=2026-10-13}}</ref>

BibTeX

@misc{howshorted-australian-consumer-goods-stocks-2026-10-07,
  title        = {Australian consumer goods stocks short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/sectors/consumer-goods/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 7 Oct 2026; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2026}
}

Sector trend

The median disclosed position across the sector's classified companies at each reporting date. A median, not a total: percentages of different companies' capital cannot be added, so this tracks the typical member, with the table below showing today's spread.

#	Company	Short %	20d (pp)
1	TREASURY WINE ESTATE	10.58%	−0.91
2	ELDERS LIMITED	9.87%	−0.16
3	BREVILLE GROUP LTD	8.13%	−0.84
4	THE A2 MILK COMPANY	7.33%	−0.12
5	ARB CORPORATION.	4.23%	−1.60
6	INGHAMS GROUP	4.13%	+0.37
7	GRAINCORP LIMITED A CLASS	3.04%	−0.61
8	COLLINS FOODS LTD	2.53%	+0.76
9	NUFARM LIMITED	1.89%	+0.66
10	WESFARMERS LIMITED	1.87%	+0.50
11	SELECT HARVESTS	1.54%	+0.18
12	AUSTRALIAN AGRICULT.	0.23%	−0.01

Reading this table

Sector buckets are our own coarse editorial classification, not the licensed GICS or ICB schemes; only classified companies appear here. The change column is percentage points over 20 trading days. Figures are official ASIC disclosures, see the methodology.