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BTS Sales Index – September 2017 Update

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Published on: October 2017

Written by: Molly MacLean

We created the BTS Sales Index to give a simple and easy-to-understand predictive monthly metric that gives enterprise leaders the right vantage point by which to view their critical business decisions.

Why

Line of business and sales leaders tasked with making strategic decisions don’t have a good measure of confidence when deciding to ramp up production or invest in customer relationships. Quarterly GDP numbers and the S&P 500 paint two different pictures of economic performance, the former too slow to incorporate new data and the latter too likely to overreact to investor sentiment.

We created the BTS Sales Index to give a simple and easy-to-understand predictive monthly metric that gives enterprise leaders the right vantage point by which to view their critical business decisions.

What

The BTS Sales Index represents the aggregate total revenue of the 1,000 largest publically traded companies in the US in one simple to understand number.

How

As mentioned above, the BTS Sales Index is comprised of the total revenue of the largest 1,000 publically traded companies incorporated in the US. Every month, we collect the total revenue reported by these companies and run the data through our custom-built indexing tool. The index uses the total revenue of the BTS 1,000 companies at the end of the second quarter of 2013 as its baseline because the economy showed signs of stable recovery. Unemployment was back to normal rates, housing prices remained steady, and stock prices were back to record levels.

BTS Sales Index September 2017 Update: 6.8

BTS Sales Index Sept 2017: 100.5 (-6.4%)

  • Aggregate revenue of BTS 1000 in September down to $3.124 trillion from $3.337 trillion in August
  • Changes in economy are primarily due to impacts of hurricanes in Florida and Texas
  • U.S. Economy lost 33,000 jobs in September
  • Food Services and Manufacturing took biggest hits from hurricanes
  • Online retailers continuing growth, resulting in transportation and warehousing growth as well