PMPA Business Trends April 2018
With 89 companies responding, the PMPA Business Trends Index for April 2018 was 133, up 15 points (12.7%) from April 2017’s value of 118. This is our Index’s highest value recorded for April, and our sixth highest month ever recorded. At 133, the April index is up 10.6 points or 8.7% over the 5-year average of 122.4 for the April Sales Index. Our year to date average is 135, up 10 points or 8% over 2017’s year-end average of 125. We are at 113% of where we were a year ago in April.