- Prior month +0.1%
- Wholesale inventories for May -0.3% versus -0.3% preliminary and estimate.
- Wholesale sales -0.3%.
Details from the Cencus Department release:
Sales
May 2025 sales were $697.2 billion, down 0.3% from April 2025.
Sales were up 4.8% from May 2024.
April sales were revised from +0.1% to virtually unchanged from March.
Inventories
May 2025 inventories totaled $905.5 billion, down 0.3% from April.
Inventories were up 1.4% compared to May 2024.
The month-to-month change of -0.3% was unrevised from the advance estimate.
Inventories/Sales Ratio
May 2025 ratio: 1.30 (unchanged from last month)
May 2024 ratio: 1.34
The inventory/sales ratio lows levels going back to 2022
