Moving & Storage
Moving companies and storage providers assisting households with local, long-distance, and storage-based relocation services.
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Overview
Moving & Storage assists households with local, long-distance, and storage-based relocation, spanning van-line agents, independent movers, and portable-storage and self-storage-adjacent services. Demand tracks housing turnover and relocation activity, making it sensitive to the residential real-estate cycle.
It is a fragmented, locally operated market with national van-line networks (United, Mayflower, Allied) coordinating agents. Consolidation is steady, and portable-storage models have added a recurring-revenue dimension.
Market snapshot
- Market size
- ~$20B
- Growth
- ~5.2%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
- Companies
- ~9,083 firms
85.4% of firms have fewer than 20 employees: 7,753 micro-businesses, below most mandates.
- 20–99
- 1,17488%
- 100–499
- 12710%
- 500+
- 292%
An asset-heavy, cyclical business — trucks are the cost base, and volume tracks housing turnover, so it moves with the residential real-estate cycle. National van-line networks (United, Mayflower, Allied) coordinate a fragmented base of local agents, and portable-storage models have bolted a recurring-revenue layer onto an otherwise transactional trade.
NAICS 484210. U.S. Census Bureau — 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau — 2022 Economic Census.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Per-move fees plus storage charges
Key economics
- Revenue per firm
- $2,214,798
- Revenue per employee
- $186,262
- Employees per firm
- 11.7
- Recurring revenue
- Low
- EBITDA margin
- 8–18%
- Capex intensity
- Moderate
move-driven; recurring for storage
Characteristics
- Scale-driven — payroll is only 23% of revenue; the cost base is assets, not headcount
- Moderate strategic-buyer pool — 29 firms exceed 500 employees; a scaled asset has buyers, but not many
- Demand tracks housing turnover and the real-estate cycle.
- Van-line networks coordinate a fragmented agent base.
- Portable storage adds a recurring-revenue dimension.
NAICS 484210. U.S. Census Bureau — 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau — 2022 Economic Census.
M&A deal context
Who’s acquiring
- Van-line networks
- Moving & storage consolidators
- PE-backed platforms
What’s driving deals
- Consolidation of fragmented local movers.
- Portable-storage recurring-revenue models.
- Housing-cycle-driven demand.
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