The William Blair/PCO M&A Specialists Pest Index is a proprietary index of the monthly sales for 140 different U.S. pest control companies across 30 states. For December 2021, the total U.S. pest index increased 16.4 percent year-over-year.
Per a news release, this marks a deceleration from November but is in line with the midteens growth observed throughout much of second half 2021. On a sequential basis from November 2021 to December 2021, the index decreased 5.3 percent, which is a typical result for the month of December.
“The performance in December was driven by an acceleration in the commercial index, offset by a deceleration across the three other sub-indices (residential, termite, and bed bug),” said William Blair Equity Researcher Tim Mulrooney.
The Residential Pest Index increased 18 percent year-over-year and declined 6 percent on a sequential basis. The Commercial Pest Index increased 19 percent year-over-year and increased 1 percent on a sequential basis. The Wood Destroying (Termite) Index increased 8 percent year-over-year and declined 13 percent on a sequential basis. The Bed Bug Index increased 11 percent year-over-year and declined 5 percent on a sequential basis.
The December report continued to show the total monthly Pest Index and sub-indices highly correlated with the organic revenue figures for Rollins and Terminix.
“The Pest Index and Rollins/Terminix are in lockstep,” said Dan Gordon, CPA, managing member of PCO M&A Specialists and PCO Bookkeepers, noting the monthly Pest Index comes out ahead of the public companies’ quarterly reports. Gordon is also Pest Management Professional magazine’s financial columnist. “The index is a good proxy for how the industry is doing and how the public companies will do.”
View the full December report and the archive of past reports at SellMyPCOBusiness.com.
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Ellen Wagner is the digital editor for PMP magazine. She can be reached at ewagner@northcoastmedia.net.
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