LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -

Black Book analysts elaborated about subcompact cars and full-size pickups as part of their latest installment of Market Insights released on Tuesday.

The commentary came as Black Book is seeing the overall decrease in wholesale prices starting to decelerate, as values made a 0.36% decline during the week that ended Saturday.

“The overall market continued to decline this past week, but the rate of depreciation lessened, and some segments reported positive pricing movement,” analysts said in the newest report.

“Despite the lower level of depreciation this past week, the rate of weekly decline remains at a level that is larger than the overall market traditionally experiences this time of year,” they continued.

Black Book said that on a volume-weighted basis, overall car segment values decreased 0.12%; only a fraction as much as the previous week’s decline, which was 0.58%.

Sporty cars paced the drop-offs as Black Book pegged the price decline for those units at 0.90%, followed by those previously mentioned subcompact cars (down 0.74%) and prestige luxury cars (down 0.55%).

“Subcompact cars had 25 weeks of gains, so it is no surprise that the past three weeks have had large declines,” analysts said about those vehicles that dropped in value by 0.91% a week earlier.

“Six of the nine car segments reported stability with only small increases or decreases in wholesale values,” analysts added.

Turning over to trucks, Black Book said its volume-weighted data showed overall truck segment values declined 0.48% last week, exactly the same as the previous week.

Continuing to go counter to the overall movements are vans, as analysts noticed price increases for minivans (up 0.72%), full-size van (up 0.50%) and compact vans (up 0.18%).

Also of note, Black Book pointed out prices for full-size pickups dropped by 1.48% last week.

“Full-size pickups have seen increasing rates of depreciation in recent weeks, with the 1500 series trucks driving the declines due to new vehicle incentives still being available. 2500 and 3500 trucks remain in short supply with lower incentives,” analysts said.