Question $14$

Evaluating whether the outlook for an industry presents a company with good prospects for attractive profitability and growth usually does not involve a consideration of which of the following factors?

Whether and to what degree the industry's future profitability will be favorably or unfavorably affected by the industry's driving forces

Whether the products of industry members are strongly or weakly differentiated and what percentage of the companies in the industry have lost money in one or more of the, past five years

The industry's growth potential and how well the company's strategy, product offering, and capabilities stack up against industry KSFs

The anticipated strength of competitive forces$--$most particularly whether competitive forces seem likely to intensify and squeeze industry profitability to subpar levels

An assessment of the degrees of business risk and uncertainty in the industry's future