Veterinary Industry Summary: January 11-17, 2026
Stats from the Veterinary Industry Tracker powered by Vetsource and AVMA
January 11-17, 2026
A new white paper from Vetsource, Turning trends into opportunities, explores the ongoing trend of slowed revenue growth and declining visits in the veterinary landscape — and offers strategies to rebalance the price–value equation.
Based on 2025 transactional data from more than 6,400 practices, key findings include:
- Practices with high visit growth have the lowest average cost for a basic wellness visit ($250.39), while practices with very low visit growth have the highest cost ($274.22), a significant 9% difference.
- Preventative care and product purchases are declining, with wellness visits and product-only visits dropping by 3.8% and 6.2%, respectively.
- Practices with very low lapsing patients increased their DVM staff by 4% but saw a 2.70% decrease in daily appointments per DVM, suggesting that more appointment availability and personalized attention may improve client bonding.
The findings also revealed that practices that used a combination of Vetsource tools to improve the client experience and practice efficiencies — such as home delivery, Vet2Pet, and practice performance reports — demonstrated lower lapsing patient rates.
Download the white paper to explore the data and uncover opportunities for 2026 that focus on sustainable growth.
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| 1.1% Revenue YoY (Last Week) |
-4.5% Visits YoY (Last Week) |
Veterinary industry revenue and visits settled last week, with revenue still positive at 1.1% but falling from 10.7% year over year. Meanwhile, year-over-year visits fell to -4.5% from 7.3% the week prior.
 -8.1%Heartworm YoY |
-1.4% Flea/Tick YoY |
 +2.1%Services YoY |
-3.0% Products YoY |
Year-over-year parasiticide purchases are back in the negative, with heartworm at -8.1% and flea/tick at -1.4% (down from 7.9% and 15.4% respectively). Service revenue also dipped from 11% the week prior to 2.1% last week, and product revenue fell from 9.7% to -3.0% during the same period.
| +2.5% Revenue YoY (Last 12 Months) |
-2.8% Visits YoY (Last 12 Months) |
The rolling 14-day trendline shows a return to similar numbers as the same time last year.
| 6,487 Practices |
2.2M Revenue per Practice (Last 12 Months) |
9.9K Visits per Practice (Last 12 Months) |
Connecticut and Maine continued to experience the highest year-over-year revenue growth at 6.6% and 6.0% respectively. Oregon also continues to remain the only state to see slight growth in year-over-year visits at 0.1%.
*Numbers are subject to change based on data availability and PIMS adjustments.
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