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SiteOne Landscape Supply supplies contractors who build and maintain residential and commercial outdoor spaces. Its branches across the United States and Canada bring together products from many suppliers, letting contractors buy the smaller quantities they need locally rather than source them separately from suppliers geared toward bulk shipments. Customers pay SiteOne for these supplies; it also offers delivery and technical and business advice.
Most revenue comes from landscaping products such as paving and stone materials, irrigation supplies, plants and outdoor lighting. It also sells fertilizer and other maintenance products, including its own LESCO brand. Its customer base is broad, with no single customer supplying a substantial share of sales.
Residential projects account for most sales, so demand depends heavily on homebuilding and spending on landscape repairs and upgrades, alongside commercial construction. Maintenance of existing properties provides a steadier source of demand. Weather affects both landscaping activity and product availability. Sales of products containing herbicides or pesticides generally require federal and state registrations in the United States; loss of those registrations can restrict what SiteOne may sell.
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SiteOne depends on spending on landscape maintenance, construction and upgrades, while important direct rivals such as Heritage Landscape Supply Group and Ewing are missing from this list.
Pool Corporation competes with SiteOne for professionals buying irrigation supplies, landscape maintenance products and paving materials. Its sales in those categories are more relevant to SiteOne than its swimming-pool supplies business.
Lowe's competes with SiteOne where its garden and outdoor-project products give homeowners and smaller professional contractors another place to buy landscape supplies.
Builders FirstSource shares SiteOne's exposure to U.S. homebuilding and renovation: it sells building materials to professional builders, while SiteOne supplies landscape professionals working on those projects. Its business with new-home builders and remodelers is the part to watch for clues to SiteOne's construction and landscape-upgrade demand, rather than recurring maintenance.
UFP Industries and SiteOne serve the same outdoor projects: UFP sells decking and treated wood through retailers and distributors, while SiteOne sells paving materials and other landscape supplies to professionals.
PulteGroup's U.S. homebuilding business tracks the new-home market that generates demand for SiteOne's sales to landscape professionals. Watch its revenue from building and selling homes for a read on that market; new construction accounted for about 34% of SiteOne's net sales in fiscal 2025.
Housing Starts (Sep)
SiteOne supplies landscape products to contractors, and new-home construction readings track building activity that can change contractor demand for supplies used in its new-construction business.
Expected1.31MLast release1.275M
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 1.31M estimate, it is above the previous 1.275M. More starts, permits or home sales than expected may point to stronger building activity and support contractor purchases of SiteOne’s landscape supplies for new residential projects.
If it comes in below expectations
Fewer starts, permits or home sales than expected may signal weaker building activity, reducing contractors’ purchases of SiteOne’s landscape supplies for new residential projects.
Pultegroup, Inc. earningsPHM
PulteGroup’s report will show whether U.S. new-home sales are firming or weakening, a source of demand for the new-project supplies behind about a third of SiteOne’s sales.
Look at PulteGroup’s home closings and homebuilding revenue. More homes sold and stronger revenue would point to resilient new-home demand and more potential work for landscape professionals on new projects; declines would suggest continued pressure on SiteOne’s construction-related supply sales.
Pool Corporation earningsPOOL
Pool Corporation’s report will show how professionals are buying irrigation, landscape-maintenance and paving products—the categories where it competes directly with SiteOne.
Focus on Pool Corporation’s relevant landscape categories, not its pool-supplies business. Stronger sales would indicate firmer professional demand, but could also mean tougher competition for SiteOne; weaker sales would raise the question of whether the categories themselves are softening or suppliers are shifting share.
SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. earningsThis company
SiteOne wholesales supplies to landscape professionals, and this report will show whether recurring maintenance work offsets softer construction and upgrade projects, and whether pricing covers distribution costs.
Read organic daily sales alongside gross margin. Steady maintenance-product sales with a stable or higher margin would show routine demand and pricing are cushioning weak construction and upgrade projects. If maintenance sales weaken, or freight and logistics costs squeeze margin, pressure is reaching either the recurring business or profit on each sale.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
SiteOne sells landscape supplies to professionals building and maintaining outdoor spaces, so interest-rate decisions matter because they influence borrowing costs, demand for construction and upgrades, and the interest SiteOne pays on variable-rate debt.
Expected4.0%Last release4.0%
If it comes in above expectations
If rates rise more than expected, higher borrowing costs may curb residential construction and discretionary landscape upgrades, reducing contractors’ purchases from SiteOne, while interest on its variable-rate debt may rise and leave less cash for operations and investment.
If it comes in below expectations
If rates rise less than expected or fall, cheaper borrowing may support residential building and landscape upgrades, potentially lifting contractors’ purchases from SiteOne; lower rates may also ease interest costs on its variable-rate debt, leaving more cash available.
Builders FirstSource, Inc. earningsBLDR
Builders FirstSource’s report will show whether professional builders’ new-home and remodeling projects are active, work that can also bring jobs to SiteOne’s landscape-professional customers.
Look at Builders FirstSource’s sales to homebuilders and remodeling customers. Stronger sales would point to more active construction or renovation and potential support for SiteOne’s supplies used on those projects; weaker sales would signal continued pressure there, but would not establish that recurring maintenance demand is also weakening.
