Economic Dashboard

Grappone

outputPrice = Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: New Vehicles in U.S. City Average

inputPrice = Producer Price Index by Industry: New Car Dealers: New Vehicle Sales

Bank of New Hampshire

outputPrice = Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity

inputPrice = Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 3-Month Constant Maturity

Comptus

outputPrice = Producer Price Index by Commodity: Machinery and Equipment: Miscellaneous Instruments

inputPrice = Producer Price Index by Commodity: Metals and Metal Products: Nonferrous Metals

What is happening to your client business’s profit margin?

Make your argument based on your analysis of the given charts.

Comptus periodically struggled to keep profit margins sustainable, especially during periods of 2017-2018 which can be chalked up to expensive metal product prices. They struggled immensely during the end of the covid years as supply chain issues and worker issues caused the already high metal prices to skyrocket. After these prices reached a high of 36.5 in may 2021 they started a slow decrease, even though prices were increasing they were increasing at a decreasing rate which allowed their output price to catch up. In June of 2022 they finally saw a much more sustainable profit margin.