How did your business perform in the first half of the year? (1H'25)

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aggiebrad16
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I am about a month late with this post. The past year or two I have made a topic on this board asking about the performance of your business for the previous 6 month period and ask about outlook for the next 6 months. We have had some great discussions in the past and hopefully we can keep that going.

We are an equipment company in Central Texas down into San Antonio. The year started out a bit cautious, we'd have a great month followed by an abysmal month. Seemed like April was rough for our industry in general but has slowly been on a climb since bottoming in April. Through the first half, we were relatively flat YoY. Then July rolled around and was a record month for our company after anxiety just a couple months earlier!

That record month we had in July doesn't seem to be showing any signs of weakness in August. We intend to increase our capex budget for the remainder of the year and we have changed our sentiment to being fairly bullish. We are going to add a salesman in the second half to keep trying to make hay while the sun shines so to speak.

Something that's interesting… our business used to be fairly reliant on residential construction. Today, most of that business has vanished. Fortunately we made a shift to focusing on commercial when we realized macro pressures were going to squeeze residential a couple years ago. Commercial construction has remained resilient on our end, but I hear it's concentrated in larger GCs and smaller GCs are starting to struggle to find work.

Overall, we are looking forward to growing our fleet and carrying this bit of momentum into the end of the year.
BO297
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Bump as I was hoping this thread may get some traction.

OP and I are in the same line of work though I cover the gulf coast.

We have also had a fairly busy year. But when I talk to manufacturers and equipment finance people outside of Texas they indicate things are slow. Linked shows people around the country saying the same thing about a slower market.

Inside of Texas, it seems all of my collection issues are oilfield related.
aggiesherpa
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The heavy machinery business has been trending up in Q2, but Q4 and Q1 were both pretty rough in both volume and dollars.
harge57
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Large consulting firm. Single digit growth aligned with plan.
BBDP
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Civil Engineering, private development, mostly commercial. We are doing a lot of C-Stores and smaller projects. Last 2 years were great. This year is going to be harder/more painful but probably as good as the previous two.
1st quarter was very mediocre. Second was good. 3rd is off to a great start. Plenty of work in the pipeline.
aggiebrad16
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Seems like there is some cautious optimism right now reading through these posts. Operating expense inflation not being a headwind this year has been a breath of fresh air. Our equipment manufacturing partners have started to sharpen their pencils on quotes, our payroll isn't growing by leaps and bounds just to hang on to people, and fuel prices have been stable. It's made for some decent forecasting.
Athanasius
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Super Secret BusinessTM

Q1 just meh.

Q2 about 90% growth

Q3... not so good so far.
Sims
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We carried a strong backlog into the 2nd quarter so that will push us easy through the end of the year. Our outstanding quote activity, however, has disappeared like a fart in the wind.

Upstream/midstream O&G fabricator
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