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Pricing is mixed. Commodity categories (lumber and panels) are largely pass‑through and competitive, limiting structural pricing power. Value‑added categories (manufactured components, windows/doors/millwork, installation) are more defensible and support higher margins, but still face competitive bids with large builders.

The company’s recent margin normalization in single and multi‑family and 2025 core organic declines illustrate cyclical constraints.

Over time, deeper adoption of off‑site manufacturing and digital workflow tools should allow more consistent pricing relative to on‑site stick‑built alternatives due to speed, accuracy and waste reductions, but this is an evolution rather than a step‑change.