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Stanley Utility Knife

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.6% of orders. But the top 5 brands take 95% of clicks, so Stanley Utility Knife is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 39% of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · +2 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$147K/yr127K searches / yr
90-day growth
+7.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 243 sellers

Flapen Score

Stanley Utility Knife against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Stanley Utility Knife is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Stanley Utility Knife market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Stanley Utility Knife 127K times last year and spent an estimated $147K. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

7.0% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 127K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 7.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +7.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $147K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
127K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+7.6%
Conversion, latest week
7.0%
Market size, estimated
$147Ka year
Peak month
April1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
stanley utility knife42K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $16.67.

Listings sell for $16.67 on average, from $5.92 to $53.11. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $16.67 that is $4K to $8K a year per listing.

Average price
$16.67inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.92–$53.11
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$4K–$8K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

56% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 89% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #358 within Knives, Parts & Accessories. It carries 2,269 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
56%
Prime listings
89%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#358in Knives, Parts & Accessories
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,269per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 67 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
67 months

Products

Top Stanley Utility Knife products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$15K$29K$44K$59K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 rising

Sellers

243

Top-5 brand share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

4%

  • STANLEY79%
  • EQUIPTZ6%
  • WORKPRO5%
  • Stanley - FatMax3%
  • CRAFTSMAN2%
  • DIYSELF1%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 4%)

Demand

Stanley Utility Knife search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

5K3KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Stanley Utility Knife search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • stanley utility knife42K/yr
  • stanley knife31K/yr
  • stanley box cutter18K/yr
  • stanley razor knife7K/yr
  • utility knife stanley7K/yr
  • stanley fatmax utility knife5K/yr
  • stanley knife utility7K/yr
  • stanley box cutter retractable4K/yr
  • box cutter stanley3K/yr
  • stanley utility knife retractable3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Stanley Utility Knife

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

20%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
14%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.6%of orders come back
“Junk quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”14% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Stanley Utility Knife questions

Answered from the same tracked data.