The Vistage CEO Confidence Index

Capturing the sentiment of CEOs and key leaders of small and midsize businesses since 2003. A proven leading indicator, this data is relied on by CEOs to guide decision making.

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Expert Perspective: ITR Economics

Vistage CEO Confidence Index

The Vistage CEO Confidence Index is calculated from responses to a set of six questions about the current and future state of the U.S. economy, revenue and profitability projections and hiring and investment plans. Measured over time, the Index reflects trends in the U.S. economy and leads both GDP and changes to employment.

Expert Perspective

“Price increases are going to be critical as there will be a continued margin squeeze caused by tariffs, the labor market and wage increases. Margin is the critical differentiator of winners and losers going forward.”

Lauren Saidel-Baker
CFA and Economist, ITR Economics

Vistage CEO Confidence Index Components

The components of the CEO Confidence Index include six standard questions that are scored as the percentage giving favorable replies minus the percentage giving unfavorable replies, plus 100. The Vistage CEO Confidence Index is the sum of the components calculated as a percentage of the level recorded in the Q2 2003 survey. Because the survey began in Q2 2003, the Index for that month was 100.

Vistage CEO CEO Index: Current Events

Each quarter the survey captures data on the most pressing issues and challenges CEOs and other key leaders of SMBs are facing. Analysis provides perspectives to help leaders make better decisions for their businesses, and the data is foundational to insights created by Vistage research.

Demographics

The Vistage CEO Confidence Index provides a quarterly report on the outlook that CEOs of small and midsize businesses have on the economy, hiring and profitability.

This monthly survey measures the outlook leaders of small businesses with revenues of $1-20 million have on the economy, hiring and profitability.