Frazierdeeter

Frazier & Deeter (survey operated by Gray, Gray & Gray, a Frazier & Deeter company) — Annual census-style benchmark survey of US delivered-fuel marketers (heating oil and propane) covering the heating season April 2025 to March 2026: dealer-level-reported gallons sold by fuel, delivered price realised per gallon, gross margin per gallon, operating expense lines, customer counts and budget-plan versus will-call mix, tank-loan and equipment-financing programmes, accounts-receivable and bad-debt experience, delivery-route counts and route density, propane tank exchange and cylinder volumes, busi…

Frazierdeeter offers (Fundamental, Alternative, Price, Reference) — Modest row count, high field depth: of order hundreds of responding dealers x 50-150 reported financial and operating metrics per edition, accumulated across a multi-year series run — a few tens of thousands of data points total, which is characteristic of a census benchmark rather than a big dataset and is precisely why it is valuable.

Private-equity and strategic due diligence on dealer roll-ups, where cost-per-route and margin-per-gallon benchmarks are the core valuation inputs; lender credit and covenant benchmarking for fuel-dealer portfolios and tank-loan books; sell-side and buy-side advisory fairness opinions; dealer self-benchmarking and cost-reduction target setting; supplier and vendor total-addressable-market sizing for software, trucking and equipment brands serving this channel; macro analysis of retail fuel margin cycles in a segment invisible to public-market data; training data for dealer-performance prediction models in M&A underwriting

Coverage spans US; Research & Security Consulting Services, Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation; fundamental, alternative, price, reference; equities, private_debt, commodities.