New orders for manufactured goods in the US were unchanged from the previous month at $619.6 billion in February of 2026, contrasting slightly with the market expectations of a 0.2% decline to mark the second consecutive stall. Orders of durable goods sank by 1.3% to $315.9 billion due to the plunge in transportation equipment (-5.3% to $106.3 billion), mostly on nondefense aircraft and parts orders (-28.6% to $19.2 billion). This was offset by higher orders of machinery (1.7% to $41.2 billion), primary metals (2.4% to $28.7 billion), and fabricated metal products (0.5% to $42.8 billion). In turn, orders of nondurable goods rose by 1.5% to $303.7 billion. source: U.S. Census Bureau

Factory Orders in the United States decreased 0 percent in February of 2026 over the previous month. Factory Orders in the United States averaged 0.29 percent from 1991 until 2026, reaching an all time high of 12.00 percent in July of 2014 and a record low of -14.00 percent in April of 2020. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Factory Orders - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Factory Orders - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2026.

Factory Orders in the United States decreased 0 percent in February of 2026 over the previous month. Factory Orders in the United States is expected to be 1.00 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the United States Factory Orders is projected to trend around 0.40 percent in 2027, according to our econometric models.



Calendar GMT Reference Actual Previous Consensus TEForecast
2026-03-18 02:00 PM
Factory Orders MoM
Jan 0.1% -0.4% 0.1% 0.5%
2026-04-10 02:00 PM
Factory Orders MoM
Feb 0% 0% -0.2% -0.2%
2026-05-04 02:00 PM
Factory Orders MoM
Mar 0% 0.8%


Related Last Previous Unit Reference
ISM Manufacturing PMI 52.70 52.40 points Mar 2026
Business Inventories MoM 0.40 0.00 percent Feb 2026
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index -2.30 -0.20 points Apr 2026
Durable Goods Orders MoM 0.80 -1.40 percent Mar 2026
Durable Goods Orders ex Defense MoM -0.30 -1.20 percent Mar 2026
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transp MoM 0.90 1.20 percent Mar 2026
Factory Orders MoM 0.00 0.00 percent Feb 2026
Factory Orders ex Transportation 1.20 0.50 percent Feb 2026
Kansas Fed Manufacturing Index 10.00 11.00 points Apr 2026
New Orders 619607.00 619352.00 USD Million Feb 2026
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index 11.00 -0.20 points Apr 2026
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index 26.70 18.10 points Apr 2026
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index 3.00 0.00 points Apr 2026


United States Factory Orders
Factory orders report is compiled from results of "Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) survey" and shows the value of new factory orders for both durable (50% of total orders) and non-durable goods. The survey is usually released a week after durable goods orders report. .
Actual Previous Highest Lowest Dates Unit Frequency
0.00 0.00 12.00 -14.00 1991 - 2026 percent Monthly
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US Factory Orders Stall for 2nd Month
New orders for manufactured goods in the US were unchanged from the previous month at $619.6 billion in February of 2026, contrasting slightly with the market expectations of a 0.2% decline to mark the second consecutive stall. Orders of durable goods sank by 1.3% to $315.9 billion due to the plunge in transportation equipment (-5.3% to $106.3 billion), mostly on nondefense aircraft and parts orders (-28.6% to $19.2 billion). This was offset by higher orders of machinery (1.7% to $41.2 billion), primary metals (2.4% to $28.7 billion), and fabricated metal products (0.5% to $42.8 billion). In turn, orders of nondurable goods rose by 1.5% to $303.7 billion.
2026-04-10
Factory Orders Tick Higher as Expected
New orders for manufactured good in the US inched higher by 0.1% from the previous month to $620.1 billion in January of 2026, trimming the revised 0.4% decline in the previous month and in line with the market consensus. The uptick was carried by a 0.3% increase to $298.7 billion in nondurable goods industries. Meanwhile, durable goods orders were loosely unchanged at $321.3 billion in the period as an increase in computers and electronic products (1.3% to $28.3 billion), machinery (0.2% to $40.3 billion), fabricated metal products (0.5% to $42.8 billion), and primary metals (0.7% to 27.9 billion) offset a 0.8% decline in orders of transportation equipment (-0.8% to $113.5 billion) amid a 23.8% plunge in defense aircraft to $5.3 billion. Excluding transportation, orders were 0.4% higher, a third month of increase.
2026-03-18
US Factory Orders Ease as Expected
New orders for manufactured goods in the US fell by 0.7% from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted $617.5 billion in December of 2025, trimming the six-month high growth of $621.9 billion in the previous month, and loosely in line with market expectations that it would contract 0.5%. Orders of durable goods fell by 1.4% to $319.9 billion, amid lower orders for transportation equipment (-5.4% to $113.9 billion), solely due to a drop in nondefense aircraft and parts (-24.8% to $26.7 billion). In turn, higher orders were recorded for computers and electronic products (3.1% to $27.9 billion), machinery (0.5% to $40.4 billion), fabricated metal products (0.9% to $42.6 billion), and primary metals (2.1% to $27.6 billion). Meanwhile, orders for nondurable goods were loosely unchanged for a second month at $297.6 billion.
2026-02-23