Manufacturing and Trade Inventory and Sales At a Glance
- Sales: $1,126.0 billion
- Monthly Change: Up 0.6%
- Year-to-year Change: Up 5.9%
- Inventories: $1,429.5 billion
- Monthly Change: Up 0.4%
- Inventory-to-sales ratio: 1.27
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MANUFACTURING AND TRADE INVENTORIES AND SALES
September 2007
Sales. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for September, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,126.0 billion, up 0.6 percent (±0.2%) from August 2007 and up 5.9 percent (±0.2%) from September 2006.
Inventories. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,429.5 billion, up 0.4 percent (±0.1%) from August 2007 and up 3.3 percent (±0.4%) from September 2006.
Inventories/Sales Ratio. The total business inventories/sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of September was 1.27. The September 2006 ratio was 1.30.
Business inventories September 2007 [PDF]
Business inventories September 2007 [Text]
Source: Commerce Department, Census Bureau
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