CSX: Benchmarking, Analytics & Intelligence

CSX is much more than the convenience and petroleum retailing industry’s largest purpose-built online database of financial and operating data. It is an essential tool that enables you to compare your firm’s performance with that of similar firms in the industry – and it is the industry’s only resource for margin and balance sheet data.

State-of-the-Art Benchmarking
CSX provides meaningful insights on operational and financial performance in the convenience and petroleum retailing industry based on monthly P&L and operational data from more than 130 convenience store chains across the United States. And the list of participating retailers keeps growing!
Since CSX is updated monthly, this interactive business intelligence tool allows you to proactively respond to the rapidly changing trends in the marketplace. You can benchmark your operations with state, regional and national averages or against the industry’s top-performing operators to become the best-in-class on the following metrics:

• Sales, margin and gross profit
  Track and manage critical metrics such as breakeven pool margin, net pool margin, in-store gross profit dollars and margins to make educated decisions about your business.
• Expenses
  Monitor and control your direct store operating expenses, such as labor, utilities and shrink, or measure your credit card costs per fuel gallon sold to become a more profitable operator.
• Operational productivity
  Review your critical operational numbers including inventory turns, inside sales per labor hour and inside gross profit dollars per labor hour to improve your operational efficiencies.
• Rate-of-return
  Evaluate and measure your ROI metrics like return on capital employed, return on assets, return on equity, and other financial measures including EBITDARL and benchmark your firm against the top quartile.
• In-store/merchandise sales
  Analyze your key categories to make informed merchandise decisions inside your stores. CSX is the only database of its kind that provides Margin Contribution and Gross Profit for top convenience categories such as Cigarettes/Tobacco, Alcohol (beer/wine/liquor), Packaged Beverages, Snacks (salty and sweet), Foodservice and General Merchandise.

Whatever measure you seek to analyze, CSX delivers reports that enable you to make more timely and informed business decisions, leading to improved operations and financial results.