Quikrete Industry Dashboard: Sales updates

The Quikrete Industry Dashboard’s existing-home sales chart turned upward for the month of February, following two successive months of declines. The latest figure is 5.54 million, as a seasonally adjusted annual rate. That’s up 3% from the previous month. (However, new home sales declined for the third straight month.) Stocks on the HBSDealer Stock Roundup chart are doing better on an annual basis than a monthly basis. Builders FirstSource is flying highest in the upper right grid. Sales data on the charts of Monthly Retail Sales show year-over gains among NAICS 444 and 44413 retailers during the month of December, the most recent month of available data for NAICS 44413.