Quikrete Industry Dashboard - (Week 13, 2025)

The Week 13, 2025 edition of the Quikrete Industry Dashboard shows U.S. average gas prices now sit at $3.15, up slightly from last month’s $3.12. Pump prices are way down, however, compared to last year's nationwide average of $3.53 in late-March 2024, according to AAA's daily data.

This week's Quikrete Industry Dashboard also offers the latest consumer confidence numbers from The Conference Board, which revealed a fourth straight month of declining sentiment. 

As HBSDealer shared earlier this week:

"Consumer confidence declined for a fourth consecutive month in March, falling below the relatively narrow range that had prevailed since 2022," said Stephanie Guichard, senior economist, global indicators at The Conference Board. "Of the Index's five components, only consumers' assessment of present labor market conditions improved, albeit slightly. Views of current business conditions weakened to close to neutral. Consumers' expectations were especially gloomy, with pessimism about future business conditions deepening and confidence about future employment prospects falling to a 12-year low."

In building materials industry stock news, Beacon (+26.4%), Tractor Supply (+6.8%) and Sherwin-Williams (+0.3%) are the only stocks on our list that are up over the course of the last year. Over the past month, every stock monitored on the Dashboard except Beacon (+7.4%) dipped. 

See the up-to-the minute stock prices of 30 industry companies tracked by HBSDealer here.