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Arrow Electronics buys products from suppliers and sells them to businesses that build electronics or deliver IT systems. Global Components generates most of its revenue, supplying mainly semiconductors and other components to equipment manufacturers and contract electronics manufacturers. Arrow also helps customers select and design in components, manage sourcing, and move products through production and delivery.
Its second business, Global ECS, sells enterprise hardware, software and computing solutions to resellers and managed service providers that serve end customers. Product sales drive revenue, supplemented by service fees. Under some supplier agreements, Arrow also earns contractual fees for managing selling and marketing activities and takes on non-cancellable, multi-year purchase commitments.
The business depends on technology demand, particularly the semiconductor cycle, and continued access to supplier products. Its customers are widely spread, but parts of Global ECS rely on a limited group of suppliers. Most distribution agreements can be cancelled on short notice, while most customer sales are placed order by order rather than secured by long-term contracts. International shipments of certain products are subject to export controls and may require licenses or license exceptions.
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Arrow’s results hinge on component demand, customer inventory cycles and enterprise IT spending; Future Electronics is also an important component-distribution rival outside this list.
Avnet shares Arrow’s exposure to component demand and customer inventory cycles: both sell semiconductors and passive components to equipment makers and contract electronics manufacturers, competing on availability, price and supply-chain support. Avnet’s Electronic Components sales offer a comparison for demand in Arrow’s component business.
TD SYNNEX Corporation competes with Arrow’s ECS business for reseller purchases of servers, storage, networking, security and software, tying both to enterprise IT spending. Its Advanced Solutions sales are the closer comparison for Arrow than its personal-device business.
Ingram Micro and Arrow’s ECS business compete to sell technology products and cloud solutions to resellers and managed service providers. Demand for the third-party cloud services and subscriptions Ingram sells is a useful comparison for Arrow’s cloud offerings.
Microchip relies on Arrow to distribute its embedded-control chips: Arrow was its largest distributor and accounted for 12% of net sales in fiscal 2026. Demand for Microchip’s chips used in automotive and industrial equipment offers a read on the component orders and inventory cycles Arrow faces.
Vishay supplies discrete semiconductors and passive components that Arrow sells onward, so component orders and inventory corrections affect both businesses.
ON Semiconductor supplies chips that Arrow distributes, exposing both to automotive and industrial electronics orders and inventory adjustments.
Littelfuse depends on Arrow to distribute protection and power components; sales to Arrow accounted for 9.5% of Littelfuse’s consolidated net sales in fiscal 2025. Its circuit-protection and power-control business offers a comparison for the industrial and automotive demand behind Arrow’s component sales.
TE Connectivity supplies connectors and related components that Arrow distributes, linking both businesses to industrial and transportation electronics production.
Climb Global Solutions, Inc. competes with Arrow for vendors’ permission to distribute products and for reseller purchases of software, networking, storage and security products. Watch its distribution business for changes in vendor relationships and reseller demand in those overlapping categories.
Scansource Inc competes with parts of Arrow’s ECS business by selling networking, communications, security and subscription products through technology channels. Its Specialty Technology Solutions sales, primarily in the United States and Brazil, offer a comparison for reseller demand in those overlapping products.
Durable Goods Orders MoM (Sep)
Durable goods orders track purchases of long-lasting goods and equipment; stronger orders can lift OEMs’ and EMS providers’ demand for Arrow’s semiconductor and other components, supporting its Global Components sales.
Expected0.2%Last release-0.1%
If it comes in above expectations
If the reading is above the 0.2% estimate, it is above the previous -0.1%. For Arrow’s Global Components business, more orders for durable goods can mean stronger component purchases by OEM and EMS customers, supporting sales; the effect depends on whether that demand reaches the industrial, automotive and transportation markets it serves.
If it comes in below expectations
Fewer durable goods orders can weaken OEM and EMS customers’ component purchases, putting pressure on Arrow’s Global Components sales, particularly where demand in its industrial, automotive and transportation markets cools.
Arrow Electronics, Inc. earningsThis company
Arrow sells electronic components and IT solutions, so this report will show whether growth in both businesses is turning into more gross profit.
Read sales growth in Global Components and Global ECS alongside gross margin, the share of sales left after product costs. Growth in both businesses with a steady or rising margin means added sales are also leaving more gross profit; rising sales with a falling margin means Arrow keeps less from each dollar sold, so the demand recovery has not yet improved the quality of its earnings.
Ingram Micro Holding Corporation earningsINGM
Ingram Micro's report will show how reseller demand for cloud services and subscriptions is changing, a market Arrow's ECS business also serves.
Compare Ingram Micro's cloud and subscription sales with Arrow's ECS sales. Growth at both would support the view that channel demand for cloud and IT solutions is holding up; growth at Ingram without similar strength at Arrow would mean that demand is not yet showing clearly in Arrow's business, although the companies' product mixes differ and the comparison cannot prove Arrow is losing orders.
Avnet, Inc. earningsAVT
Avnet's report will show how component demand and distribution competition are changing in a business where it and Arrow sell to equipment makers and contract manufacturers.
Compare Avnet's Electronic Components sales with Arrow's Global Components sales. Growth at both would point to a broad recovery in component demand; Avnet growing while Arrow lags could reflect different product mixes, or weaker availability, pricing or service from Arrow in the areas where they compete.
Microchip Technology Inc earningsMCHP
Microchip's report will show demand for embedded-control chips used in cars and industrial equipment; Arrow is its largest distributor and sells these chips onward.
Read Microchip's sales and inventory alongside Arrow's Global Components sales and inventory. Stronger Microchip sales without inventory building, together with growth at Arrow, would suggest demand is absorbing supply; weak sales or rising inventory at Microchip would signal continued softness in automotive and industrial chip demand and possible further order corrections for distributors.
Industrial Production MoM (Oct)
Industrial production and capacity use track factory, mine and utility output and how much of their capability is in use; stronger output can prompt Arrow’s industrial OEM and EMS customers to buy more components, supporting Global Components sales.
Stronger industrial output and capacity use point to potentially firmer demand for components from Arrow’s industrial OEM and EMS customers, supporting Global Components sales; weaker readings suggest those customers may need fewer components, putting sales at risk.
TD SYNNEX Corporation earningsSNX
TD SYNNEX's report will show reseller demand for servers, storage, networking, security and software, products also sold by Arrow's ECS business.
Compare TD SYNNEX's Advanced Solutions sales with Arrow's ECS sales. Growth at both would show that reseller demand for enterprise IT products is holding up; growth at TD SYNNEX while Arrow ECS is weak would mean Arrow is not benefiting as clearly, though differences in business mix mean the gap does not by itself prove lost customers.
