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Quikrete Industry Dashboard - (Week 3, 2025)

Get the latest on housing starts, NAICS sales data and more.
1/17/2025

The busy Week 3 edition of the Quikrete Industry Dashboard shows U.S. average gas prices have ticked upward ($3.11) from last month ($3.03). Pump prices are also up compared to last year's nationwide average of $3.08 in mid-January 2024, per AAA's data.

This week's Dashboard also reveals that the latest (unadjusted) December retail sales for NAICS 444 entities (building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers) totaled $36.2 billion, down from the roughly $40 billion tabulated from the previous month (November 2024). Year-over-year, December 2024's figures were down slightly compared to December 2023's sales of $36.5 billion. 

Meanwhile, the latest NAICS 44413 (hardware stores) sales figures, from November 2024, totaled $3.51 billion, which is down compared to October 2024's tally of $3.68 billion but higher than November 2023's $3.33 billion.  

Elsewhere, December 2024's total home starts (1,499,000) surged from November's mark of (1,294,000). Single-family starts rose also. December 2024 clocked in at 1,050,000 single-family starts compared to November's revised figure of 1,016,000.

Finally, in building materials industry stock news, Beacon (+36.2), Tractor Supply (+23.9) and Lowe's (+20.9) have posted the biggest increases in the past year. Over the past month, however, only Beacon, Builders FirstSource, Stanley Black & Decker and Weyerhaeuser have gone up instead of down.

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