The data describes the key risk factors with the greatest impact on company earnings in the U.S. in the next three years as of 2016. It was found that 40% of the United States companies considered tougher competition to have a potentially significant impact on company earnings in the three years following 2016.
Tougher competition | 40 |
Customer satisfaction/retention | 33 |
U.S. political/regulatory uncertainty | 32 |
Interest rates | 26 |
Currency volatility | 25 |
GDP growth | 24 |
Product innovation | 23 |
Geopolitical risk | 19 |
Labor and HR issues | 17 |
Energy price volatility | 16 |
Commodity (non-energy) price volatility | 16 |
Liquidity | 15 |
Credit | 15 |
Information Technology risks (e.g. system failure) | 14 |
Cyber risk | 13 |
Tax risk | 10 |
Inflation | 10 |
Supply chain disruptions | 10 |
Intrastructure failure/breakdown | 9 |
Terrorism | 6 |
Natural catastrophe | 6 |