Sweet cherry and apricot lead a stone fruit family split down the middle. As of 4 November 2026, eight indexed materials rose and eight fell over three months, for a mean move of +3.2%. Over one year the family is down 9.7% on average, the weakest annual figure among the fruit families. Of its 17 materials, only black cherry lacks a public index.
Sweet cherry gained 22.2% over three months and 3.5% on the year; apricot 19.7% and 10.8%. The apricot notes concern Turkish dried apricots: on 15 October the crop was described as abundant and sentiment as weak, and on 22 October prices were softer FCA Europe and stable FOB Malatya.
Every peach line rose over three months, and every one is well down on the year: vine peach +12.5% (-9.1% over a year), white peach +12.1% (-11.3%), yellow peach +5.6% (-21.9%) and peach +5.2% (-21.3%). A 27 October note reported lower US peach production in 2026, citing freezes and processing headwinds.
Nectarine (brugnon) fell furthest, -8.9% over three months and -19.2% over a year; according to market notes, Lidl adjusted prices in the French nectarine sector on 24 August to help clear stocks. Damson lost 7.1% and mirabelle plum 4.6%. In Nancy on 7 September, the price per kilo of mirabelles was reported lower than a year earlier.
The three sour cherry lines, sour cherry, Lutowska sour cherry and Oblačinska sour cherry, are down 1.6% over three months and 31.0% over a year. Plum slipped 1.5%. At Poland's Bronisze market, plum prices were reported sharply lower on 22 October.
Prune and Agen prune added 1.5%. On 21 October, Chilean prune prices in Europe were described as firm amid tight supply. Date eased 2.3%; on 28 October, Medjool deliveries to Europe were reported several weeks late.