March 27, 2025 – The AVP Pulse Index this month dropped 2.2% month-over-month, while increasing 4.2% year-over-year; and 10.5% over the past 36 months. The proprietary AVP Pulse Index – a joint effort between mergers and acquisition advisors Allen-Villere Partners and Rock Products – illustrates the health of the industry in one single trend line, using relevant data that is updated monthly or quarterly.
“While sinking consumer sentiment has been widely reported since January in the face of rapid changes to our economy caused by new policies from the Trump administration, the actual economic indicators look far worse, with almost every one of our algorithm inputs down since last month. It is a stunning reversal of our generally upward trajectory for the past 36 months, almost every individual indicator was down,” stated Pierre Villere of Allen-Villere partners