Where does Hardware Merchant Wholesale… sit on the thin-tail industry band?

Hardware Merchant Wholesalers ranks #358 of 499 tracked industries by calendar-2024 contract dollars at $55.3M (LIGHT · WHOLE).

How did Hardware Merchant Wholesale… move between 2019 and 2024?

Between calendar 2019 and 2024, Hardware Merchant Wholesalers climbed from #361 to #358 of 499 ranked industries (DRIFT); share of tracked industry dollars went from 0.0082% to 0.0074%.

Where does the WHOLE sector placement for Hardware Merchant Wholesale… come from?

Sector 42 (Wholesale Trade) placement uses the first two NAICS digits. Hardware Merchant Wholesalers ranks #8 of 14 classified industries there (NICHE), taking 0.6% of $9.2B.

USAspending.gov · NAICS 423710 · Wholesale Trade

Hardware Merchant Wholesalers

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Thin-tail NAICS industry on the industries board — code 423710 in Wholesale Trade.

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CY2024 awards: $55.3M
Corpus rank: #358 of 499
Award plate: LIGHT
Sector: WHOLE · NICHE

Hardware Merchant Wholesale… federal industry awards

Hardware Merchant Wholesalers is a thin-tail industry on the NAICS board at $55.3M CY2024 (#358 of 499).

PlainFedContract attributes calendar-2024 contract dollars to NAICS 423710, not firm revenue. Stamp board: LIGHT · WHOLE. See /methodology/#naics.

Year-over-year change, 2019–2024

Across the calendar years on file, Hardware Merchant Wholesalers’s annual contract dollars rose from $42.2M in 2023 to $55.3M in 2024. 30.9% vs 2023

Hardware Merchant Wholesalers annual contract dollars, calendar 2019-2024

Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same NAICS classification basis as the CY2024 headline above.

Source: USAspending.gov spending_by_category

How Hardware Merchant Wholesale… shows up on the thin-tail award band

$55.3M · #358 of 499 by CY2024 industry awards , thin-tail on the NAICS award board (same order as the industries listing). See methodology.

$55.3M under NAICS 423710 · #358 of 499 , LIGHT · WHOLE · NICHE · DRIFT. 2019→2024: 361→358 of 499 (0.0082%→0.0074% of tracked industry dollars) ; #8/14 in WHOLE. Nearest ABS peer: International Affairs at $55.2M (LIGHT).

Calendar-2024 actions under NAICS 423710 count as opportunity size, not firm revenue. Sector weight is light within WHOLE. Populations, lag, and NAICS/SBA rules: methodology.

Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury

Thin-tail industry peers nationwide

Cross-sector peers from the USAspending NAICS extract: nearest thin-tail calendar-2024 award dollars and nearest sector-weight share. Not recommendations.

Closest CY2024 award dollars

International Affairs $55.2M
Primary Battery Manufacturing $55.5M
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages $55.6M
Home Health Care Services $55.6M
Packaging Machinery Manufacturing $55.7M
Rubber and Plastics Hoses and Belting Manufactu… $54.5M

Similar sector weight

Small Arms Ammunition Manufacturing 0.6% · $1.3B
Environmental Consulting Services 0.6% · $1.4B
Nonferrous Metal (except Aluminum) Smelting 0.6% · $1.3B
All Other Information Services 0.6% · $114.1M
Paper (except Newsprint) Mills 0.6% · $189.7M
Broadwoven Fabric Mills 0.6% · $62.1M

Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Industry spending amounts are aggregated from contract awards and may not reflect the most current data. Always verify with official sources.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Compiled from USAspending.gov by the PlainFedContract editorial process.

Compiled by PlainFedContract, Government Agencies Editorial Process · August 14, 2026

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