what are the 3 main parts of industry analysis 
performing overall industry analysis requires looking at three things the overall appeal or attractiveness of an industry both to customers and investors the factors that determine an individual company s success or failure within an industry and the wider economic political and social forces that influence an industry the bottom linethe industry life cycle is the stages of growth and decline that an industry goes through as it is created expands and eventually becomes extinct this mirrors the four main stages of the economic cycle expansion peak contraction and trough industry life cycle analysis is used to analyze a company s stock researchers analysts and investors can look at the overall stage of an industry s life cycle to understand why a company s stock is valued the way it currently is and whether that is likely to change in the future 