Energy
The Market Is Volatile. Leadership Doesn’t Have to Be.
Benchmark your performance, share ideas, and learn from energy leaders facing the same challenges.
Sector pressures
Propane Supply
Churn Is Quiet Until It Isn’t
The warning signs of churn often appear long before customers leave.
Petroleum Marketing
The rack resets every day.
You can see your spread. You can’t see the market.
Lubricants Supply
Margin doesn’t wait for you to get around to it.
Most distributors know their margins. Few know how they stack up.
Wholesale (Dealer) Fuel Supply
Fuel Margin Compression
Rack volatility, aggressive competition, and dealer pricing pressure can make it difficult to protect margins.
Commercial and Agriculture Fuel Supply
Growth Is Harder to Predict
Market volatility, consolidation, and changing customer demand create uncertainty.
fuel Transportation
Fuel goes down the month labor goes up.
Profitability is harder to predict than ever.
The Insight Ecosystem
How Study Groups Helps Independent Energy Leaders
Study Groups connects peer insight, benchmarking intelligence, education, and trusted solutions into one connected resource.
Margin Visibility
See your gross margin against operators who don’t compete with you.
Peer Intelligence on What Works
Hear what worked from the people who ran it, in a business built like yours.
Compliance Navigation
You’re not the first leader to face it. Learn from peers who have already been there.
Consolidation Readiness
You find out what your business is worth from operators who’ve already been priced.
Verified Study Groups Benchmarks
The leaders who benchmark grow.
Collectively, Study Groups members grew gross profit at 9% a year, compounded, against 4.8% for the U.S. economy. 1.6x faster over a full decade.
Gross Profit
GP dollar — 1.6x faster than the broader economy over a full decade
Year One GP Growth
Gross profit growth in year one of membership
Year Two Cumulative GP
Cumulative gross profit growth by year two
Always Access
Days of access to peers, data, and solutions via Study Groups Edge
Confidential Energy Peer Benchmarking
Where Does Your Gross Margin Rank Against the Top Quartile?
The leaders who know are already benchmarking with their peers.