Week Ending: 28 August 2026

Brazil BR Consumer Defensive Industry

Packaged Foods

For the week ending 28 August 2026, Packaged Foods declined 1.63% with 3 advancing, 7 declining, and 3 unchanged constituents. The index is equal weighted and the constituent tape shows uncapped security returns.

Current architecture Unresolved

The Activity Lines, Trend Line and price acceptance remain genuinely mixed.

30 technical evidence
Index806.68 1 week-1.63% Breadth23% Members13
Country 🇧🇷 Brazil · BR
Sector Consumer Defensive
Universe country-listed
Price basis Adjusted weekly close

Trend architecture

Index, activity fan and structural anchors

Rolling 156-week evidence. Trend Signal points mark weeks when price, trend and the activity fan confirmed together.

Index Value Trend Line Fair Value Activity Lines Constructive architecture Transitional architecture Defensive architecture
Current architecture Unresolved 9 completed weeks in this state
Trend acceptance -3.1% Index versus Trend Line
Persistence 75% Negative regime, shorter trend repairing
Participation 23% 3 advancing, 7 declining

Investor positioning lens

Is the evidence ready for capital?

A rules-based technical classification using trend, breadth, persistence, relative strength and path quality.

Current posture Defensive posture

The weight of trend, participation and relative evidence favours capital protection over new exposure.

30 technical evidence
out of 100
Evidence balance

Five-pillar map

Defensive
Trend
31
Breadth
33
Persistence
23
Relative
6
Risk quality
74
What supports the view
  • No major confirming factor has secured control.
What restrains conviction
  • Index trend architecture has not delivered a durable upward expansion.
  • Breadth remains too narrow or inconsistent for a high-conviction position.
  • Constituent persistence remains divided or predominantly negative.
  • The group is not yet delivering dependable relative outperformance.
  • Stage 4 declining constituents exceed Stage 2 advancing constituents by 69 percentage points.
  • Positive contribution is concentrated in a small leadership cohort.

This is a weekly research classification, not personal investment advice. Sentiment is reported as an independent confirmation layer and does not alter the technical score.

Trend state and durability

Architecture, persistence and constituent regimes

The index path is tested against the underlying security-level trend evidence.

Index architecture Unresolved

The Activity Lines, Trend Line and price acceptance remain genuinely mixed.

State age9 weeks
Trend gateDown
Fan width1.48%
Fast versus slow change2.05 pts
Above 33% Below 50%
Six completed weeks of price acceptance relative to the full Activity Line fan.
Index persistence

Negative regime, shorter trend repairing

75% agreement

The long trend remains negative, but shorter-horizon repair is now visible.

13-week
4.0%
26-week
-18.6%
39-week
-17.6%
52-week
-26.8%
Regime age60 weeks 52-week flips0 52-week boundary1102.13
Constituent trend persistence

Is the index move broadly durable?

100% coverage
Coherent positive0%
Coherent negative15%
Average horizon agreement71%
Positive horizon share25%
Weakening positives1
Repairing negatives10

13 constituents measured as of 28 Aug 2026. Median trend age is 59 weeks.

Custom stage map

Where constituents sit in the cycle

100% coverage
Stage 1 · Basing31%4 securities
Stage 2 · Advancing0%0 securities
Stage 3 · Distribution0%0 securities
Stage 4 · Declining69%9 securities
Re-acceleration watch0 Transition watch2 Relative strength leaders0% Fair Value repairs3

Measured as of 28 Aug 2026. Stages summarize price, Activity Line architecture, Fair Value position and relative evidence.

Architecture breadth

How market energy is distributed

67/100 mean confidence
Upward expansion
15% 2
Rotation up
31% 4
Deceleration
8% 1
Balance
0% 0
Rotation down
0% 0
Downward expansion
46% 6
Unresolved
0% 0

Architecture breadth shows the distribution of expanding, rotating, balancing and contracting securities. It is diagnostic context and is not added as a second vote in the positioning score.

Capital rotation

Performance relative to Consumer Defensive

Weakening
Relative index 13-week relative trend Starting level
Rotation dashboard Weakening

A rising relative line means this group is compounding faster than Consumer Defensive. A falling line means capital has done better in the parent benchmark.

Relative index70.3
13-week trend71.4
4-week trend change-0.16%
Weekly peer rank8 of 9
1 week
-2.4 pts relative
4 weeks
-2.3 pts relative
13 weeks
-1.4 pts relative
26 weeks
-12.4 pts relative
52 weeks
-25.5 pts relative

Market internals

Participation, dispersion and path risk

Equal-weight index evidence with constituent-level breadth and dispersion.

Breadth

Participation quality

Narrow
Advancing
3
Declining
7
Unchanged
3
4-week average 37%
13-week average 43%
Risk and persistence

Path quality

52-week lens
Annualised weekly volatility17.0%
Drawdown from 52-week high-27.5%
Positive weeks, last 1346%
Current directional run1 week
Turnover versus 13-week norm151%
Breadth impulse-21.8 pts
Cross-section

Return distribution

13 measured
Q1 -2.3% Median -0.8% Q3 0.0%
Average winner1.4%
Average loser-3.6%
Dispersion3.2 pts
Top-five upside share100%
Top-five capital share81%
Capital data coverage100%

Dispersion describes how far constituent outcomes are spreading apart. Capital concentration is contextual only; the index itself is equal weighted.

Momentum cycle

30-week persistence

Positive readings show expansion. Negative readings show contraction.

Breadth cycle

Net participation

Advancers less decliners as a percentage of measured constituents.

News and narrative

Does company news confirm the market tape?

Open Sentiment Intelligence
Sentiment evidence is still developing

Qualified company-level news coverage is not yet broad enough to influence the group view.

1 qualified records across 13 measured constituents.

Leadership tape

Leaders, laggards and contribution shape

Latest completed week, ranked on uncapped constituent returns.

Constituent ledger

Industry constituents

All 13 measured constituents, ranked by latest weekly return.

Rank Ticker Company Exchange Market cap Close Index contribution Return
1 G1MI34 General Mills, Inc. SAO 90.90B 70.00 0.19 pts
2.49%
2 KHCB34 The Kraft Heinz Company SAO 141.25B 33.12 0.08 pts
1.01%
3 CAML3 Camil Alimentos S.A. SAO 1.87B 4.95 0.06 pts
0.81%
4 C1AG34 Conagra Brands, Inc. SAO 32.06B 75.67 0.00 pts
0.00%
5 JOPA3 JOSAPAR Joaquim Oliveira S.A. Participações SAO 177.78M 17.10 0.00 pts
0.00%
6 M1KC34 McCormick & Company, Incorporated SAO 62.53B 66.00 0.00 pts
0.00%
7 MDIA3 M. Dias Branco S.A. Indústria e Comércio de Alimentos SAO 6.40B 17.13 -0.06 pts
-0.81%
8 C1PB34 The Campbell's Company SAO 31.67B 118.94 -0.09 pts
-1.14%
9 H1RL34 Hormel Foods Corporation SAO 62.32B 124.20 -0.15 pts
-2.01%
10 JBSS32 JBS N.V. SAO 65.05B 70.09 -0.17 pts
-2.27%
11 BEEF3 Minerva S.A. SAO 3.52B 3.88 -0.21 pts
-2.76%
12 MBRF3 MBRF Global Foods Company S.A. SAO 21.78B 18.24 -0.51 pts
-6.65%
13 B2YN34 Beyond Meat, Inc. SAO 1.98B 66.52 -0.76 pts
-9.85%

The index uses capped equal-weight weekly constituent returns. The ledger shows uncapped security returns so outliers remain visible for research.

Evidence context