The roofing contractor (see our commercial roofing contractors near you) industry report 2026 from The Roofing Brief Research Team examines the four forces reshaping how 166,700 US roofers compete in a market the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA), and IBISWorld now size at roughly $24 billion to $33 billion depending on whether you count materials alone or installation services. Those forces are a structural labor shortage, manufacturer certification saturation that puts the top GAF and Owens Corning programs into the hands of only a few percent of contractors, an unprecedented private equity roll-up that QXO’s $11 billion Beacon Roofing Supply purchase and the imminent sale of Tecta America have made impossible to ignore, and storm-chaser fraud activity that climbed 38 percent between 2023 and 2025 as billion-dollar weather disasters multiplied. This report compiles primary-source data on each.
Headline findings
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 166,700 employed roofers in May 2024 with a median annual wage of $50,970 and projects 6 percent employment growth and roughly 12,700 annual openings through 2034.
- NRCA puts the broader US roofing workforce at more than 250,000 in 2024 (a 4.8 percent increase from 2022), with 85 percent of contractors reporting they struggle to hire skilled labor.
- Immigrant workers now make up about 53 percent of US roofers, and Hispanic workers account for roughly 63 percent of the trade, making the industry one of the most immigration-policy-sensitive in construction.
- GAF, the largest North American roofing manufacturer, certifies only about 2 percent of US roofers as Master Elite. Owens Corning Platinum Preferred covers fewer than 1 percent. CertainTeed SELECT ShingleMaster reaches a similar narrow band.
- Private equity owned 56 US roofing platforms by mid-2025, up from 17 in 2021. KPMG Corporate Finance tracked 134 announced deals in 2025, an all-time high.
- QXO closed its $11 billion acquisition of Beacon Roofing Supply on April 29, 2025, instantly creating the largest publicly traded US roofing distribution platform.
- Tecta America, the largest US commercial roofer with 3,000-plus employees and 60-plus locations, is positioned for sale at a $3 billion to $4 billion enterprise value.
- Renovo Home Partners, a PE-backed exterior roll-up, filed Chapter 7 on November 3, 2025, with up to $500 million in liabilities, the first cautionary tale of the roll-up cycle.
- The National Insurance Crime Bureau reports contractor-fraud filings rose 38 percent from 2023 to 2025 as the US absorbed 23 billion-dollar disasters totaling $115 billion in losses.
- Residential reroof gross margins run 30 percent to 42 percent; commercial new-construction sits at 18 percent to 28 percent; commercial service and maintenance work commands 35 percent to 50 percent.
Methodology and sources
The Roofing Brief Research Team compiled this report from primary sources only. Labor figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook and Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program for SOC 47-2181 (Roofers) and NAICS 23816 (Roofing Contractors), with cross-reference to NRCA’s annual workforce surveys and CPWR’s Data Bulletin on Hispanic and immigrant construction workers. M&A and private equity data come from PitchBook-cited reporting, KPMG Corporate Finance’s 2026 Roofing Contracting report, SEC filings from publicly traded acquirers including QXO (Form 8-K, April 29, 2025), Bloomberg, Roofing Contractor magazine, and AXIA Advisors’ tracker of active PE platforms. Manufacturer certification counts come from GAF, Owens Corning, and CertainTeed’s published program guidelines and from independent contractor-side reporting. Fraud and enforcement (for the full data set, see our the 2026 State Roofing Code and Licensing Report) data come from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), state attorneys general (Georgia, Ohio), the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, the California Contractors State License Board, and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. All figures were verified during the week of June 16, 2026.
The 2026 US roofing contractor industry: size and structure
Establishment counts and employment
The roofing contractor industry sits at NAICS 23816. According to BLS OEWS data, 166,700 roofers were employed across the United States as of May 2024. SicCode and Census County Business Patterns sources put the count of establishments in the high 20,000s to mid 30,000s depending on methodology and year. The most recent industry-side aggregation, cited by RoofLink in its 2025 statistics survey, puts the total US roofing workforce (counting helpers, project managers, sales reps, and ownership) at more than 250,000, a figure NRCA validated in 2024 as a 4.8 percent expansion since 2022.
Industry revenue estimates diverge because analysts disagree on whether to count materials at wholesale, materials at installed value, or services only. IMARC Group valued the 2025 US roofing market at $24.0 billion. Expert Market Research pegged it at $24.89 billion. Mordor Intelligence and Market Data Forecast, which include installation labor, put the 2025 figure at $31.5 billion to $32.66 billion and project growth to $33.5 billion to $34.66 billion in 2026. NRCA’s own analysis estimated the US roofing market at approximately $31.4 billion in 2025 with replacement (reroofing) work accounting for more than 80 percent of annual volume.
| Source | 2025 US Roofing Market Size | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| IMARC Group | $24.0 billion | Materials and services |
| Expert Market Research | $24.89 billion | Materials and services |
| Market Data Forecast | $31.50 billion | Broad market |
| Mordor Intelligence | $32.66 billion | Broad market |
| NRCA estimate | ~$31.4 billion | Roofing contractor revenue |
Geographic distribution
Roofer employment concentrates in Texas, Florida, California, and the Midwest hail belt. Census data and OEWS state-level breakdowns place Texas first by absolute employment, followed by Florida and California. Per-capita roofer density is highest in storm-exposed states (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas) where reroof frequency is structurally elevated. This is also where storm-chaser activity, examined below, concentrates. Homeowners researching how to vet roofing contractors near them face the highest density of out-of-state crews in exactly these regions.
The labor shortage: data and projections
BLS occupational projections
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects roofer employment to grow 6 percent from 2024 to 2034 (faster than the all-occupations average), with about 12,700 openings per year and a total employment change of 9,800 jobs across the decade. The median annual wage was $50,970 as of May 2024. That growth rate is constrained primarily by labor supply, not demand. The bigger demand driver is reroof and repair work tied to weather damage, with solar photovoltaic installation contributing additional incremental volume on the residential side.
NRCA workforce survey findings
NRCA’s 2024 workforce survey, summarized on its Roofing News portal, found that 85 percent of US roofing contractors report difficulty hiring skilled labor, up from 82 percent in 2022. NRCA’s membership of more than 3,700 contractors across all 50 states is heavily weighted toward small and mid-sized businesses: 48 percent of NRCA contractor members report annual sales volumes below $3 million. The labor problem is therefore concentrated at the small-to-mid contractor tier where recruitment infrastructure is weakest.
Average roofer age and retirement wave
Data USA’s profile of SOC 47-2181 puts the average employed roofer at 36 years old with a median age of 37.5. The broader US construction workforce skews older, with the average rising from 41.6 in 2011 to 42.1 in 2023 according to Equipment World’s analysis of CPWR’s Construction Chart Book. Roofers themselves are younger than the construction average, but two structural problems compound: the broader construction workforce is aging into retirement at the same time the trade-school and apprenticeship pipeline has thinned, and only 26.4 percent of construction wage-and-salary workers participated in a pension or retirement plan in 2023 (versus 34.3 percent of US workers across all industries), which delays retirement timing and crowds entry-level positions.
Immigration policy impact
The CPWR Data Bulletin from December 2024 and Scotsman Guide’s coverage of construction-workforce demographics put immigrant workers at roughly 53 percent of US roofers as of 2024, and Hispanic workers at about 63 percent of the trade. That makes roofing one of the three most immigration-exposed trades in US construction, alongside drywall and concrete. Any tightening of H-2B visa availability, ICE enforcement posture, or asylum-claim adjudication directly affects roofing crew availability within weeks.
The H-2B program (temporary nonagricultural workers) carries a statutory annual cap of 66,000. The Department of Homeland Security announced an additional 64,716 supplemental H-2B visas for FY 2025, bringing the total to roughly 130,716. Employer demand still exceeded supply: more than 149,000 positions were requested for April 1, 2025 start dates alone, and 47,488 requests were already in for October 1, 2026 start dates. Roofing contractors, alongside landscaping, hospitality, and seafood processing, are the largest H-2B users.
| Workforce Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Total employed roofers (SOC 47-2181) | 166,700 (May 2024) | BLS OEWS |
| Median annual wage | $50,970 (May 2024) | BLS OOH |
| Projected 10-year growth (2024-2034) | +6%, +9,800 jobs | BLS OOH |
| Annual job openings projected | ~12,700 | BLS OOH |
| Broader US roofing workforce | 250,000+ | NRCA 2024 |
| Contractors reporting hiring difficulty | 85% (2024) | NRCA workforce survey |
| Hispanic share of roofers | ~63% | Data USA / CPWR |
| Immigrant share of roofers | ~53% | CPWR Data Bulletin Dec 2024 |
| Average roofer age | 36 | Data USA |
| H-2B annual statutory cap | 66,000 | USCIS |
| FY 2025 supplemental H-2B visas | 64,716 | DHS, Nov 2024 |
Manufacturer certification: saturation and market share
Asphalt-shingle manufacturers run tiered certification programs that wrap factory training, installation quality audits, customer-satisfaction thresholds, business-stability requirements, and annual volume floors. The top tier in each program also grants access to the strongest workmanship-backed warranties, which is the practical filter homeowners and insurance carriers use to differentiate contractors. The penetration of those top tiers across the 166,700-roofer US base is the single best indicator of how concentrated trusted residential capacity actually is.
GAF Master Elite: about 2 percent of US contractors
GAF, North America’s largest roofing manufacturer, publishes a program guideline that only 2 percent of roofers in North America are invited to become Master Elite contractors. This figure is cited consistently across GAF’s own messaging and across independent third-party reporting. Master Elite contractors are the only ones permitted to offer the Golden Pledge warranty, which combines materials and workmanship coverage. Some markets see a more selective Top 2 percent of GAF-certified subset cited by individual contractors who use that as a marketing differentiator.
Owens Corning Platinum Preferred
Owens Corning operates a three-tier contractor network. The entry-level Preferred Contractor tier has thousands of members. The middle tier is Preferred Contractor. Platinum Preferred sits at the top and, per Owens Corning’s published program rules and independent reporting from Econo-Roofing, Reign Roofing, and others, includes fewer than 1 percent of US roofing contractors. Platinum Preferred contractors qualify to offer the System Protection extended workmanship warranty.
CertainTeed SELECT ShingleMaster
CertainTeed’s residential program runs ShingleMaster, Master Shingle Applicator, and SELECT ShingleMaster as ascending tiers. SELECT ShingleMaster is the only tier authorized to offer the 5-STAR extended warranty. Independent industry reporting (US Siding & Roofing, CMB Roof, and others) characterizes SELECT ShingleMaster as a top-1-percent-of-contractors credential, though CertainTeed does not publish an official total count.
Secondary tier (IKO, Atlas, Tamko, Malarkey)
IKO ROOFviewer, Atlas Pro Plus, Tamko Pro Certified, and Malarkey’s Emerald Premium contractor program are the secondary-tier manufacturer ladders. Combined, the contractors holding a top-tier credential from any of the three primary manufacturers (GAF, Owens Corning, CertainTeed) likely number in the low single-digit thousands. Against a US base of 166,700 employed roofers and 23,000-plus establishments, the implication is that fewer than 5 percent of residential roofing capacity carries the top manufacturer credentials that warranty-conscious homeowners and savvy insurance carriers actually look for.
| Manufacturer | Top-Tier Credential | Share of US Contractors | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAF | Master Elite | ~2% | Per GAF program guidelines; Golden Pledge warranty access |
| Owens Corning | Platinum Preferred | <1% | System Protection extended warranty |
| CertainTeed | SELECT ShingleMaster | ~1% (industry estimate) | 5-STAR extended warranty |
| IKO | ROOFviewer Shield Pro | Not published | Smaller network |
| Atlas | Pro Plus / Signature Select | Not published | Smaller network |
Homeowners who want a practical filter for the credential layer can review the questions to ask any roofing contractor guide and the red flags to watch for before signing a contract.
M&A and consolidation: residential roofing
Private equity buyers
Roofing transitioned from a fragmented mom-and-pop industry to a private equity battleground between 2021 and 2025. AXIA Advisors’ tracker, KPMG Corporate Finance’s 2026 Roofing Contracting report, and industry reporting at Roofing Contractor magazine document the scale: PE-backed roofing platforms grew from 17 in 2021 to 56 by mid-2025. KPMG counted 134 announced deals in 2025, more than double the 2021 baseline. By mid-2025, observers noted that a US roofing platform (for the full data set, see our the 2026 Roofing CRM Software Showdown) was being acquired by a PE firm every 48 hours.
The economic logic is clean: roofing is large ($30 billion-plus), fragmented (23,000-plus establishments), counter-cyclically resilient (replacement demand survives recessions), and weather-driven (storm events create predictable insurance-funded reroof spikes). Margins at the residential reroof level (30-42 percent gross) and the commercial service-and-maintenance level (35-50 percent gross) clear the threshold PE sponsors typically require.
Roll-up platforms
The most active 2024-2026 residential platforms include Aligned Exteriors Group, Eskola Roofing & Waterproofing, Roofing Services Solutions (Dunes Point Capital), and Latite Roofing & Sheet Metal (Sun Capital Partners, acquired January 2025 as a Florida building-services platform). On the direct-to-consumer side, the September 2025 acquisition of Erie Home by Leaf Home (a Gridiron Capital portfolio company) combined two of the largest D2C residential exterior services brands. West Shore Home, headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, grew to roughly 3,000 employees by 2023 and is one of the largest non-PE-controlled exterior platforms by employment.
Recent 2024-2026 deals
| Date | Buyer | Target | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | Sun Capital Partners | Latite Roofing & Sheet Metal | Florida’s largest roofing services provider |
| 2025 | Aligned Exteriors Group | Home Pro Roofing (majority) | Add-on to residential platform |
| 2025 | Dunes Point Capital (Roofing Services Solutions) | Quality First Roofing | Add-on |
| Sep 2025 | Leaf Home (Gridiron Capital) | Erie Home | Combines two largest D2C exterior platforms |
| Nov 2024 | Sumeru Equity Partners | JobNimbus ($330M majority) | Roofing CRM software |
| November 3, 2025 | Chapter 7 filing | Renovo Home Partners | ~$500M debt, exterior remodeler roll-up unwinds |
The Renovo collapse on November 3, 2025 is the first significant cautionary tale of the cycle. Renovo’s Chapter 7 filing in Delaware listed up to roughly $500 million in debt across nearly 20 entities. Customers were left with torn-off roofs and half-finished exterior jobs, employees received no WARN notice, and senior lenders marked their loans from par to zero. The collapse demonstrates that roll-up math depends on integration discipline and unit-economics monitoring, not just acquisition velocity. Contractors evaluating sell-side exits should review how to sell a roofing business and how roofing businesses are valued before talking to a PE sponsor.
M&A and consolidation: commercial roofing
Tecta America and the commercial nationals
Tecta America is the largest US commercial roofing contractor with more than 3,000 roofing professionals across 60-plus locations, and is owned by Altas Partners and Leonard Green & Partners since 2018. Bloomberg reported on November 22, 2024 that the sponsors had appointed advisers to solicit interest in a sale that could value Tecta at $3 billion to $4 billion including debt. The sale process kicked off in early 2025 and remains in motion as of mid-2026. Tecta has continued to acquire during this period, closing on Eberhard Companies, Sterling Commercial Roofing, and Eagle Cornice in 2024, followed by Alpine Roofing, Oklahoma Roofing & Sheet Metal, Christianson Roofing, J3 Systems, Skyline Roofing, and Texas Roofing in 2025.
The other large commercial nationals, per Roofing Contractor magazine’s Top 10 ranking for 2025, are CentiMark Corporation (second by revenue), Flynn Group of Companies (third, Canadian-headquartered with deep US presence), Nations Roof (fourth), Roofing Corp of America (fifth), and Baker Roofing Company (sixth). The fastest-growing $50 million-plus commercial roofers include Greenwood Industries and Roofing Solutions alongside the Top 6 names. Collectively, the top tier generated revenues from $1.5 billion (Tecta) down to roughly $297 million, employing an estimated 20,000 commercial roofing professionals.
Recent commercial deals
QXO’s $11 billion acquisition of Beacon Roofing Supply, which closed April 29, 2025, was the largest 2025 transaction touching the roofing channel. While Beacon is a distributor (not a contractor), its acquisition by Brad Jacobs’ QXO platform reshapes the channel economics every commercial and residential contractor depends on. QXO is positioning itself as a leader in what it characterizes as an $800 billion building-products distribution industry, with margin expansion and consolidation as its stated playbook. Contractors should expect tighter supplier-side discipline (less rebate flexibility, more standardized pricing) and stronger competitive pressure on independent distributors.
For homeowners and facility managers evaluating commercial contractors, the commercial roofing contractor guide and best commercial roofing companies directories provide vetting frameworks.
Storm-chaser and bad-actor activity
BBB complaint trends
The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that contractor-fraud filings rose 38 percent between 2023 and 2025, coinciding with 23 billion-dollar weather disasters totaling approximately $115 billion in damage and economic losses. Home improvement scams ranked as the fifth riskiest scam in 2024 per BBB Scam Tracker data, with victims reporting a median loss of $1,800. The NICB identified assignment-of-benefits (AOB) abuse, manufactured roof damage, inflated water mitigation claims, exploitation of elderly homeowners, and falsified documentation as the most common post-storm fraud patterns.
State AG enforcement
State attorneys general have stepped up. Georgia’s AG runs an active consumer-alert program on storm-related home repair scams, and Ohio’s AG filed a consumer-protection lawsuit in Perry County in 2025 against a contractor accused of soliciting storm-damage contracts and then failing to perform or abandoning jobs mid-project. These enforcement actions usually post-date the damage by 12 to 18 months, meaning the homeowner-side losses are largely irrecoverable by the time AG action lands.
License revocation rates
The three highest-volume state contractor boards (California CSLB, Florida CILB, Texas TDLR) operate active enforcement programs. Florida’s CILB tightened the framework substantially in 2024 and 2025: Senate Bill 1142 (signed May 2024) extended the expiration of local specialty licenses one final time to July 1, 2025, after which most local specialty roofing licenses expired and contractors must hold a state-level certified or registered roofing license. Florida statute Section 489 imposes monetary fines, restitution, license probation, suspension, and revocation on licensees who assist unlicensed persons; criminal charges for unlicensed contracting range from first-degree misdemeanor to third-degree felony. The practical implication for homeowners: an unlicensed contractor can void general liability coverage entirely and can lose lien-law protection on commercial jobs.
Homeowners in the three highest-risk states should verify license status before signing a contract. Reference Florida roofing contractor license requirements, California C-39 license rules, and Texas roofing license requirements for the specifics. Vetting frameworks live in roofing scam patterns and how to choose a roofing contractor.
Contractor pricing and margin trends
Residential gross margin benchmarks
Industry-side P&L benchmarks compiled by JobNimbus, Roofr, ProLine CRM, Pipeline On, and Profitability Partners converge on a consistent picture. Well-run roofing companies target 25 to 40 percent gross margin and 8 to 15 percent net margin. Residential reroofs (retail, non-storm) typically see 30 to 42 percent gross margin. Above 38 percent signals strong pricing discipline and efficient crews. Below 28 percent suggests a contractor is buying revenue at the expense of profitability, which is a common early-warning sign before a roll-up acquisition (because PE diligence will discount valuation for sub-benchmark margins).
Commercial gross margin benchmarks
Commercial roofing new construction runs 18 to 28 percent gross margin depending on project complexity, weather, and bidding intensity. Commercial service and maintenance work runs significantly higher at 35 to 50 percent gross margin, which is why almost every commercial roofing roll-up platform (Tecta America being the canonical example) emphasizes service and maintenance contracts as the strategic anchor and bids new construction as fill-in volume. Beacon Roofing Supply’s last public reporting before the QXO transaction showed a consolidated gross margin of 25.7 percent for FY 2024 on $9.76 billion in net sales, with an operating margin of 4.97 percent. Those distribution-side margins are structurally lower than installation-side margins but provide the comparison point for understanding why QXO valued Beacon at $11 billion enterprise value: the consolidation thesis is margin expansion through scale.
| Segment | Gross Margin Range | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Residential reroof (retail, non-storm) | 30-42% | Profitability Partners, Roofr, JobNimbus |
| Residential reroof (storm/insurance) | 25-35% | Industry P&L benchmarks |
| Commercial new construction | 18-28% | Profitability Partners |
| Commercial service & maintenance | 35-50% | Profitability Partners |
| Roofing distribution (Beacon FY24) | 25.7% (consolidated) | SEC filings, Beacon Roofing Supply |
| Roofing distribution operating margin (Beacon FY24) | 4.97% | SEC filings |
Software adoption: CRM, estimating, aerial measurement
Software adoption among US roofing contractors has accelerated sharply since 2021 as PE sponsors push portfolio companies toward standardized tech stacks. Industry surveys cited by SPOTIO and contractor-software comparison sites put adoption rates at roughly 67 percent for enterprise or accounting software, 63 percent for estimating tools, and 61 percent for cloud-based business systems among US roofing contractors as of 2025. The roofing-specific software market is projected to reach roughly $1.98 billion globally by 2032.
The CRM and project-management layer is dominated by three platforms. AccuLynx targets storm-restoration and insurance-heavy workflows and is widely considered the most feature-complete roofing CRM. JobNimbus blends CRM, project management, and marketing, with Sumeru Equity Partners taking a $330 million majority stake announced November 13, 2024, validating the software-side thesis. Roofr is purpose-built for residential roofers with fast, affordable aerial (for the full data set, see our the 2026 Aerial Roof Measurement Software Report) measurements integrated into its quoting workflow.
The aerial-measurement layer is dominated by EagleView and Hover. EagleView produces high-resolution roof reports from plane-captured imagery with claimed 98.77 percent measurement accuracy on full exterior measurements announced June 4, 2025 (CompassData LiDAR benchmark), and bundles roof-penetration measurements into existing subscriptions. Hover takes a separate approach using ground-captured photos to build a 3D model and is used alongside EagleView by 9 of the top 10 US property and casualty carriers, with the two tools coexisting rather than competing head-to-head. GAF QuickMeasure rounds out the manufacturer-supplied measurement option. The practical impact for contractors is that contractor estimating cost has dropped from $30 to $60 per measured roof in the pre-software era to roughly $20 to $40 today, with turnaround compressed from days to under an hour.
| Category | Leading Platform | Position |
|---|---|---|
| CRM (storm/insurance) | AccuLynx | Most feature-complete |
| CRM (general) | JobNimbus | Sumeru Equity $330M majority 2025 |
| CRM (residential aerial) | Roofr | Built-in measurements |
| Aerial measurement | EagleView | 98.77% claimed accuracy, plane-captured |
| Aerial measurement | Hover | 3D from ground photos, used by 9 of top 10 insurance carriers |
| Manufacturer measurement | GAF QuickMeasure | Bundled with GAF program |
What this means for homeowners, contractors, and suppliers
For homeowners (vetting context)
Five facts shape practical vetting. First, only about 2 percent of US contractors hold GAF Master Elite, and fewer than 1 percent hold Owens Corning Platinum Preferred. Asking for the top-tier credential and verifying it directly with the manufacturer’s online directory is the fastest credibility filter. Second, the labor shortage means even legitimate contractors are subcontracting more crews than they did three years ago, so explicit questions about who actually installs the roof matter. Third, storm-chaser fraud is up 38 percent and concentrates in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, and the broader hail belt; cross-checking state license status before signing is a five-minute task that prevents the highest-frequency loss pattern. Fourth, residential reroof pricing should produce 30 to 42 percent gross margins for a well-run contractor; aggressive low bids below that range often signal under-capitalized operators who cannot survive a single warranty claim. Fifth, the roof installation hiring checklist walks through the contract-level safeguards that matter most.
For contractors (industry positioning)
The PE consolidation cycle is real but uneven. The 56 active PE-backed platforms have absorbed roughly 200 add-on transactions in five years, but 22,000-plus independent contractors still serve the bulk of US demand. Three positioning levers matter. First, top-tier manufacturer credentialing creates real moat (only about 2 percent of contractors hold it). Second, software adoption (AccuLynx, JobNimbus, Roofr, EagleView, Hover) is now table stakes for any sell-side conversation with a PE sponsor; contractors operating on paper or spreadsheets will face a 1 to 2 turn EBITDA multiple discount in any sale process. Third, commercial service-and-maintenance revenue commands the highest gross margins (35 to 50 percent) and the strongest PE valuations because of the recurring nature of the work.
For suppliers (channel intel)
The QXO acquisition of Beacon Roofing Supply concentrates more distribution buying power in fewer hands. Suppliers and contractors should expect tighter rebate-program discipline, more standardized pricing, and increased competitive pressure on the remaining independent distribution channels (ABC Supply, SRS Distribution, and the regional independents). The 25.7 percent gross margin and 4.97 percent operating margin that Beacon ran at as a standalone public company suggests significant scale-driven margin-expansion room that QXO is targeting, which is the strategic logic behind the $11 billion transaction.
Sources cited
The following primary and industry-side sources were referenced. All URLs verified during the week of June 16, 2026.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Roofers (SOC 47-2181): https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/roofers.htm
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS NAICS 238160 industry-specific estimates: https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/naics5_238160.htm
- US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html
- National Roofing Contractors Association, Recruitment Toolkit and workforce surveys: https://www.nrca.net/workforce-recruitment/recruitment
- NRCA Quarterly Market Index Survey for Reroofing (Q3 2025): https://www.nrca.net/RoofingNews/trade-association-coalition-announces-q3-findings-from-market-index-survey-for-reroofing.10-31-2025.13030/details/story
- CPWR Data Bulletin, December 2024: https://www.cpwr.com/wp-content/uploads/DataBulletin-December2024.pdf
- Data USA, Roofers (SOC 47-2181) profile: https://datausa.io/profile/soc/roofers
- GAF Master Elite directory and program guidelines: https://www.gaf.com/en-us/roofing-contractors
- Owens Corning Platinum Preferred directory: https://www.owenscorning.com/en-us/roofing/contractors
- CertainTeed Find a Pro directory: https://www.certainteed.com/find-a-pro/
- QXO 8-K, completion of Beacon Roofing Supply acquisition (April 29, 2025): https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001236275/000114036125009591/ny20045603x1_ex99-1.htm
- Bloomberg, “Altas, Leonard Green Prepare for Sale of Commercial Roofing Firm Tecta America” (November 22, 2024): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-22/altas-leonard-green-said-to-prepare-for-sale-of-tecta-america
- Tecta America acquisitions page: https://www.tectaamerica.com/acquisitions/
- Roofing Contractor magazine, “Top 10 Roofing Contractors of 2025”: https://www.roofingcontractor.com/articles/101115-the-top-10-roofing-contractors-of-2025
- Roofing Contractor magazine, “Roofing’s Big Deal: Private Equity in 2025”: https://www.roofingcontractor.com/articles/100478-roofings-big-deal-what-contractors-need-to-know-about-private-equity-in-2025
- AXIA Advisors, Private Equity Roofing Platforms tracker: https://axiaadvisors.com/private-equity-roofing-platforms/
- NICB, “When Hail Hits, Storm Chasers Arrive”: https://www.nicb.org/news/blog/when-hail-hits-storm-chasers-arrive
- NICB, “Roof claims hitting new high and crisis for insurance industry”: https://www.nicb.org/news/regional-news/roof-claims-hitting-new-high-and-crisis-insurance-industry-experts-say
- Georgia Attorney General, Consumer Alert on storm scams: https://law.georgia.gov/key-issues/consumer-protection/consumer-alert-beware-storm-scams-fraud
- Florida DBPR Construction Industry Hot Topics: https://www2.myfloridalicense.com/construction-industry/hot-topics/
- Beacon Roofing Supply 10-K (FY 2024): SEC EDGAR
- Profitability Partners, Roofing Profit Margins benchmarks: https://profitabilitypartners.io/roofing-profit-margins/
- SPOTIO, Best Roofing Software 2026: https://spotio.com/blog/roofing-software/
Methodology note
The Roofing Brief Research Team prioritized primary-source data wherever possible and used industry-side aggregators (Roofing Contractor magazine, NRCA, AXIA Advisors, Profitability Partners, JobNimbus benchmark studies) only where primary sources do not publish the relevant figure. Where multiple credible sources produced different point estimates (industry size, top-tier certification counts, gross-margin ranges), we report the range and identify the source. M&A transaction details were cross-checked against SEC filings, Bloomberg, and Roofing Contractor magazine. State enforcement data came directly from the relevant state contractor licensing board. This report is informational and is not investment, legal, or contracting advice. Contractors evaluating a sell-side process should consult qualified M&A advisors; homeowners evaluating contractors should verify license status with their state board. Last verified: week of June 16, 2026.