Observation:
Jan 2024: 1.36 (+ more) Updated: Mar 14, 2024Jan 2024: | 1.36 | |
Dec 2023: | 1.34 | |
Nov 2023: | 1.34 | |
Oct 2023: | 1.35 | |
Sep 2023: | 1.33 | |
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Release: Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales
Units: Ratio, Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Monthly, End of Period
The inventories to sales ratios show the relationship of the end-of-month values of inventory to the monthly sales. These ratios can be looked at as indications of the number of months of inventory that are on hand in relation to the sales for a month. For example, a ratio of 2.5 would indicate that wholesalers have enough merchandise on hand to cover two and a half months of sales.
U.S. Census Bureau, Merchant Wholesalers: Inventories to Sales Ratio [WHLSLRIRSA], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WHLSLRIRSA, March 19, 2024.