Summary
Global IT Hardware industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2011-15, and forecast to 2020). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.
Key Findings
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Synopsis
Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Global it hardware market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.
Reasons To Buy
What was the size of the Global it hardware market by value in 2015?
What will be the size of the Global it hardware market in 2020?
What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the Global it hardware market?
How has the market performed over the last five years?
What are the main segments that make up the global it hardware market?
Key Highlights
The IT hardware market includes all physical components integral to computing. The total market values include client computing and peripherals (desktop PCs, notebook PCs, fixed phones and adaptors, scanners and imaging devices standalone printers, thin-clients and workstations), network infrastructure (Ethernet hubs and switches, Ethernet routers, WAN CPE and termination equipment, WAN multi-service switches, WLAN access points, WLAN cards and WLAN switches and appliances), security hardware and appliances (content-filtering and anti-spam appliances, encryption/SSL accelerators, firewall and VPN gateways, smart card readers and smart cards), server computing (high-end servers, low-end servers and mid-range servers) and storage infrastructure (hard-disk drives, NAS filers and arrays, NAS gateways, SAN adaptors and connectors and SAN disk arrays).
The global IT Hardware market had total revenues of $323.3bn in 2015, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4% between 2011 and 2015.
The Client Computing & Peripherals segment was the market's most lucrative in 2015, with total revenues of $189.1bn, equivalent to 58.5% of the market's overall value.
The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 4.3% for the five-year period 2015 – 2020.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Market value
Market value forecast
Category segmentation
Geography segmentation
Market rivalry
Market Overview
Market definition
Market analysis
Market Data
Market value
Market Segmentation
Category segmentation
Geography segmentation
Market Outlook
Market value forecast
Five Forces Analysis
Summary
Buyer power
Supplier power
New entrants
Threat of substitutes
Degree of rivalry
Leading Companies
Best Buy Co., Inc.
Dixons Carphone plc
Metro AG
Methodology
Industry associations
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Appendix
About MarketLine
List of Tables
Table 1: Global it hardware market value: $ million, 2011–15
Table 2: Global it hardware market category segmentation: $ million, 2015
Table 3: Global it hardware market geography segmentation: $ billion, 2015
Table 4: Global it hardware market value forecast: $ million, 2015–20
Table 5: Best Buy Co., Inc.: key facts
Table 6: Best Buy Co., Inc.: key financials ($)
Table 7: Best Buy Co., Inc.: key financial ratios
Table 8: Dixons Carphone plc: key facts
Table 9: Dixons Carphone plc: key financials ($)
Table 10: Dixons Carphone plc: key financials (£)
Table 11: Dixons Carphone plc: key financial ratios
Table 12: Metro AG: key facts
Table 13: Metro AG: key financials ($)
Table 14: Metro AG: key financials (€)
Table 15: Metro AG: key financial ratios
List of Figures
Figure 1: Global it hardware market value: $ million, 2011–15
Figure 2: Global it hardware market category segmentation: % share, by value, 2015
Figure 3: Global it hardware market geography segmentation: % share, by value, 2015
Figure 4: Global it hardware market value forecast: $ million, 2015–20
Figure 5: Forces driving competition in the global it hardware market, 2015
Figure 6: Drivers of buyer power in the global it hardware market, 2015
Figure 7: Drivers of supplier power in the global it hardware market, 2015
Figure 8: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the global it hardware market, 2015
Figure 9: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the global it hardware market, 2015
Figure 10: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the global it hardware market, 2015
Figure 11: Best Buy Co., Inc.: revenues & profitability
Figure 12: Best Buy Co., Inc.: assets & liabilities
Figure 13: Dixons Carphone plc: revenues & profitability
Figure 14: Dixons Carphone plc: assets & liabilities
Figure 15: Metro AG: revenues & profitability
Figure 16: Metro AG: assets & liabilities
