US Industry Services

The US Industry Service offers an unparalleled platform for make cross-industry performance comparisons. Drawing on its highly detailed macroeconomic models, our industry experts deliver NAICS sector benchmarks and up to 10-year forecasts for 12 key concepts across 170 manufacturing, mining, and service industries. Clients also receive sector risk ratings for 25 categories, such as interest rate movements and energy price fluctuations. Beyond our database offerings, clients can request several tailored products, including custom market indexes and scenario analysis for improved forecasting and contingency planning.

Subscribers to the US Industry Service receive:

• Quarterly industry review 
• 10-year sectors outlooks for 170 sectors 
• Market analysis of 100 individual sectors 
• Sector risk ratings 
• Custom solutions

Benefits:

The US Industry Service enables you to:

• Forecast sales in multiple markets and aggregate by business segments or company totals 
• Perform credit risk analysis and loan portfolio evaluation 
• Compare, rank, and size markets 
• Measure market opportunity and risk 
• Quantify impact of economic and financial events on key markets 
• Track key demand and cost drivers for an industry or business segments 
• Conduct "what-if" analysis to stress-test markets and prepare contingency plans 
• Create a custom market index for developing corporate strategy, evaluating performance, and gauging the competition

Quarterly Forecasts 

• 10-year forecasts for approximately 170 industry sectors for the following 12 concepts: 
  • Revenue
  • Price 
  • Input costs
  • Gross operating profit 
  • Production 
  • Employment 
  • Productivity 
  • Exports 
  • Imports 
  • Value added 
  • Production 
  • Capital expenditures 
  • Capacity utilization 
• Event-driven analysis for 100 industries 
• Delivery through our client website, MyInsight, with option to download data into pre-formatted Excel spreadsheets or create customized reports using our web-browser tool DataInsight-Web 

Sector Risk Ratings 

• Assessments of business, environmental, and structural risk across 20 risk categories and 170 industries, including:
  • Key growth and profitability components 
  • Major economic threats, such as: 
    • Energy prices
    • Imports 
    • Interest rates 
• Assignment of a 0-10 risk rating for individual sectors and a weighted composite score that jointly measures risks and opportunities 
• Delivery through our client website, MyInsight, with option to download data into pre-formatted Excel spreadsheets or create customized reports using our web-browser tool DataInsight-Web

Custom Solutions

• Custom Market Index (CMI): clients can request a tailored market index that links company sales with business activity measures, culminating in a reliable planning tool for forecasting product sales and benchmarking performance.

Our CMI enables you to:

• Forecast sales growth 
• Determine market share 
• Benchmark the competition 
• Illustrate company performance 
• Manage risk 
• Develop corporate strategy

• Scenario Analysis: clients can request an expert, customized assessment quantifying potential outcomes, risks, and scenarios that impact corporate goals and strategies 
• Access to our team of experts 
• Client conferences 
• Consulting engagements

Our expert team provides an independent, fact-based view of consumer markets, fully supported by more than 250 IHS economists and analysts worldwide with expertise in over 170 industries and 200 countries.

IHS is the world leader in economic and financial analysis, forecasting, and market intelligence, with more than 40 years of experience and an outstanding record for accuracy.