Using the benchmarks Follow

The Benchmarks section in LivePlan offers averaged financial data, collected from U.S. companies across a wide range of industries. 

When creating your company or adjusting your company type, LivePlan’s AI Assistant will automatically generate the industry code most closely aligned with your business’ industry. You can also manually search for your industry and region within the U.S. The benchmarks will then display metrics showing how companies similar to yours have performed in the past.

These metrics can help you compare your own forecast against the actual performance of similar companies. Industry benchmarks can tell you whether you are matching the profit margins of your peers, keeping too much inventory on hand, or getting paid faster or slower than others.

Note: LivePlan's Benchmark data is U.S. data. We continue to search for international sources of benchmark data, but as of yet have not found any with large enough data sets to be helpful for our customers. If you are outside the U.S., we recommend searching for your industry and then using the data for the entire U.S. as a point of comparison to your forecast.

This feature is available to LivePlan Premium users. To learn more about LivePlan Premium, please click here. 

To see the Benchmarks section in action, watch this short video:

The articles below will show you how to search for and view benchmarks data for your industry: 

• About our benchmarks data
• Searching for your industry
• Viewing industry benchmark results
• Benchmarks metrics available in LivePlan
• How is the Benchmarks data different than market research?
• Why can't I see my forecast data in the Benchmarks section?