By Chris Wack
SiteOne Landscape Supply shares fell after the company said it expects prices to go up and demand to be down for the year.
The stock fell 14%, to $122.79, in midday Wednesday trading. Shares are down nearly 2% year to date.
The company, which distributes landscape supplies in the U.S. and Canada, reported a quarterly loss of $26.6 million, or 60 cents a share, compared with a loss of $27.3 million, or 61 cents a share in the same quarter last year. Analysts polled by FactSet were looking for a loss of $18 million, or 45 cents a share.
Sales for the quarter were $940.1 million, compared with $939.4 million in the year-ago quarter. Analysts were expecting $982.3 million.
SiteOne said it expects overall prices in 2026 to increase 2% to 3% for the full year. Due to unfavorable weather, the company said the spring selling season started later this year than in 2025, although it has seen improved sales volume in April so far.
The company also said it believes that the recent increase in macroeconomic uncertainty is negatively affecting the already-weak new residential construction sector, as well as the more resilient repair and upgrade markets.
This uncertainty, the company says, is more than offsetting maintenance growth and solid demand in new commercial construction. As a result, it expects overall end market demand will be down modestly for the full year 2026.
Write to Chris Wack at chris.wack@wsj.com
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April 29, 2026 13:38 ET (17:38 GMT)
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