These analyses can be available as standalone reports or as sections in industry reports. Published analyses are available for individual companies as well as entire industries (or sectors).
When ready-made, already published analyses are not available, sections of industry and analyst reports can be used to compile information in one report.
- SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. A SWOT analysis highlights internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and threats) and how they are likely to impact a company, a product or an industry.
- PESTLE is an acronym that stands for Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental factors.
- Five Forces - Harvard professor Michael E. Porter suggested that a company’s performance is influenced by the following five factors: threat of new entrants, threat of substitutes, rivalry among existing competitors, bargaining power of suppliers, bargaining power of buyers.