There have been more roofing and insulation plant openings over the past several years than we have seen in decades. There are more on the way. One of the largest roof-contracting firms in the country (No. 2 on Roofing Contractor’s Top 100 list) was recently acquired by an investment management firm. Consolidation and new branch openings continue on the distribution side of the trade. These are not insignificant investments and are being made by firms that spend considerable resources reading the tea leaves.
You and I may not be institutional investors or owners of multi-billion-dollar roof-manufacturing assets, but we are all business people with investments in our various enterprises. We may not have staffs of actuarial folks helping us find out what the next great investment should be, but we can read about and study the folks who do.