Mouser resistor prices

[Ecs787s]

Anybody else notice the prices tripled in the past month? My $.08 Vishay CCF60 resistors I use have gone to $.25.

I'm a little confused.

 

[emrr]

it's like that.  the pdf catalog rarely matches the shopping cart too. 

 

[Ecs787s]

Man, I'm wondering if something happened to the Vishay production at their factories, as I've been buying these for nearly 2 years and never seen them do this...  :-\

 

[gar381]

Xicon 1% metal film  271 series went from
$12 /1000 to $18 /1000 overnight a couple of months ago..

GARY

 

[PRR]

Article from 2012 saying resistor prices mostly stable but with pressure from raw material, transportation, and labor. Perhaps the things they warned us about did happen.
http://www.digikey.com/en/articles/techzone/2012/apr/resistor-prices-and-leadtimes-are-stable-for-now

...if there are changes in the price of oil, component costs could be impacted because of the higher cost of transportation. Increases in prices of raw materials such as bauxite, copper, and palladium could also lead to higher prices for resistors.

Schroeder noted that there have been recent price increases for bauxite, an ingredient in alumina substrates for chip resistors, due to limited supply and increased demand issues from other industries. This could put price pressure on chip resistors.

"Price increases on axial-leaded resistors were due to increased raw material costs, increased labor costs in China, and increased logistics costs (due to gas price increases)," said Schroeder. "Material costs were largely driven by copper, but also other metals and packaging materials. Increases depend on the type of product."

Pricing for "lower average-selling price (ASP) products like carbon-film resistors, where material and freight costs are a significant percentage of the total costs, increased up to 25 percent," Schroeder noted. "Other products such as metal film, metal oxide, and wirewounds had much more modest increases."

Recent stock market thoughts about Vishay. Retail prices will not closely echo stock prices though.
http://www.themarketsdaily.com/analyst-actions/analysts-set-vishay-intertechnology-inc-nysevsh-price-target-at-15-333/43692/
http://www.investornewswire.com/analyst-views/stock-rating-update-on-vishay-intertechnology-inc-nysevsh/25896/

CTS apparently had some insider trading reported recently. CTS is not Vishay, though they have parallel products, and again stock issues don't cause instant retail hikes.
http://newswatchinternational.com/news/company-shares-of-cts-corporation-drops-by-0-53.html
http://www.lulegacy.com/2015/07/31/cts-rating-lowered-to-hold-at-gabelli-cts/567371/
http://www.moneyflowindex.org/revenue-update-on-ctsnysects/381927/

 

[Brian Roth]

Maybe Warren Buffet told Mouser to "up" their profit margin!  <g>

Any other vendors stock those parts?  I didn't check Digikey, etc....

Bri

 

[Andy Peters]

Anybody else notice the prices tripled in the past month? My $.08 Vishay CCF60 resistors I use have gone to $.25.

I'm a little confused.

Through-hole 1/2-watt parts, probably on their way to NRND if not already there.