Operate · the United States

Underwriting: Cheese Manufacturing

What public records can and cannot establish about running this business in the United States, dimension by dimension, with the gaps named.

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NOT SCORED. 65 of 100 rubric points are evidenced deterministically from public records; 10 have no producer. The ±3.1 interval measured elsewhere on this site is ARBITER's sampling variance and does not apply to a SQL query, which returns the same answer every time it runs.
IndustryNAICS 311513
Scopethe United States
RubricO1.0-20260804
Pricedfree — no account, no gate
60th percentile of 287 industries

Where this industry stands

Net formation, 5yrPercentileReads asSignal strength
+0.75%60th of 287forming faster than it is dyingρ 0.57 across 4 backtested windows, 42.6pp decile separation
Economic Census 2022

What it costs to produce

MeasureValue
Margin on receipts24.3%
Computed asvalue added — receipts less cost of materials
Industry receipts$66.3bn
SBA 7(a) acquisition loans · FY2010–FY2026

Can you borrow to buy one

MeasureValue
Acquisition loans approved62
Median loan$759,559
Mean rate6.87%
Mean term138 months
Charged off0.0%
410 firms · Census SUSB 2022

What firms here actually earn

Revenue band ($000)FirmsShareCumulativeLabour share of revenue
<10041.0%1.0%63.7%
100-4997117.3%18.3%20.1%
500-9995914.4%32.7%22.0%
1,000-2,4995312.9%45.6%21.7%
2,500-4,999409.8%55.4%16.9%
5,000-7,499163.9%59.3%13.4%
7,500-9,999102.4%61.7%12.3%
10,000-14,999163.9%65.6%14.5%
15,000-19,999143.4%69.0%9.1%
20,000-24,99971.7%70.7%15.9%
25,000-29,99951.2%72.0%13.3%
30,000-34,99941.0%72.9%6.9%
35,000-39,999112.7%75.6%10.6%
40,000-49,99961.5%77.1%13.5%
50,000-74,999143.4%80.5%9.3%
75,000-99,99992.2%82.7%8.2%
100,000+7117.3%100.0%5.2%
SBA 7(a) · FY2010–FY2026

Can an acquisition here be financed?

MeasureValue
SBA acquisition loans on record62
Median loan$759,559
Typical rate6.87%
Typical term138 months
Total approved$54,578,100
Charge-off rate, seasoned cohorts0.0%
Loans that reached an outcome38

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65 of 100 rubric points evidenced

What this report can and cannot underwrite

DimensionWeightEvidencePredicts?Source
O1 · Demand density and recurrence25evidencedpredictive · ρ +0.57US Census County Business Patterns
O2 · Payment evidence15partialnot backtestedUSASpending.gov — US federal government work, public domain
O3 · Licence gate favourability15evidencednot backtestedCareerOneStop / ARC, U.S. Department of Labor
O4 · Labour availability15evidencednot backtestedBLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024
O5 · Incumbent weakness10no producernot backtestednone
O6 · Margin structure10partialnot backtestedUS Census Economic Census 2022
O7 · Ceiling10evidencedDESCRIPTIVE ONLY · ρ +0.05US Census Business Dynamics Statistics — public domain

Every licensed occupation in this industry

OccupationShare hereConcentrationJurisdictions
Food Batchmakers15.5%136.9×1 of 56
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders14.39%56.9×1 of 56
Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders3.74%105.4×1 of 56
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers2.8%6.9×12 of 56
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General3.34%3.6×4 of 56
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand4.96%2.5×2 of 56
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators3.13%6.0×1 of 56

What this report cannot tell you

Gap
licence gate — the only occupation matched is 'Food Batchmakers' at 15.5% of this industry's employment, licensed in 1 of 56 jurisdictions. Reported, but too narrow to be read as this industry's barrier to entry.
licence titles in this scope — none matched 'Food Batchmakers', though it is licensed in 1 jurisdictions nationally. The title differs locally, or the record is held municipally.
occupation mix for NAICS 311513 — the labour statistics carry no rows at this level, so everything about occupations here, including the defining occupation and its licence gate, is measured at NAICS 311500, a broader grouping. Establishment counts are for 311513 itself.
licence coverage — the register holds 54 of 56 US licensing jurisdictions, and 2,504 of its records carry no jurisdiction at all. A count of 1 is out of 54 searched, not out of 56. The unsearched jurisdictions are not evidence of no licence.
bonding_required_usd — no producer, and not estimated