Factory Gate Prices Fall 3.3% in February

Industrial producer prices in Hungary dropped 3.3% year-on-year in February, falling for the fourth month in a row, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports.

Domestic output prices lessened by 3.1% and non-domestic ones by 3.3% compared to February 2025. Compared to the previous month, domestic output prices were 0.3% and non-domestic output prices 1.0%, so industrial producer prices as a whole 0.8% lower.

Domestic prices of the manufacturing sector, which have a 67.6% weight in the purchasing price index (PPI), fell 2.7%. Domestic energy prices (those of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), which account for 30.0% of PPI, slipped 4.3%.

Prices in Hungary diminished by 4.5% in energy and intermediate producer branches together and by 0.3% in capital goods producer branches and rose by 0.8% in consumer goods producer branches out of the end-use groups of the producer branches of industry.

Industrial non-domestic output prices were reduced by 3.3%, within which by 3.3% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 90.1%, and by 7.4% in the energy industry, with a weight of 9.7%.

In January–February 2026 compared to January–February 2025, domestic output prices were 2.9% and non-domestic output prices 3.1% lower, so industrial producer prices as a whole were down by 3.1%.