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This 3 page SWOT Analysis examines PSS, a medical supply company. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are things carefully examined. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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business since 1983, trades on the NASDAQ and is based in Jacksonville, Florida ("PSS World Medical Inc," 2007). A SWOT analysis for this medical supply company is as follows:
Strengths * This company is quite popular and competitive in the field. * This firm maintains an excellent reputation and has not had to circumvent bad publicity. This is
important. It is an established firm and his been in the business since the early 1980s ("PSS World Medical Inc," 2007). * This company has a high price to earnings
ratio, suggesting that it has done well("PSS World Medical Inc. (NASD:PSSI) Weekly Earnings Information," 2007). This fact also makes the company attractive to investors * This is not a volatile
stock as its 52 week low and high numbers (16.32 and 21.75 respectively) are not very far apart ("PSS World Medical Inc. (NASD:PSSI) Weekly Earnings Information," 2007). This suggests stability.
Weaknesses * This company recently had to adjust its target earnings ("PSS World Medical adjusts earnings target for fiscal 2007," 2006). * There had been a problem where
the firm sorely overestimated the amount of flu vaccine necessary for a particular year ("PSS World Medical adjusts earnings target for fiscal 2007," 2006). This demonstrates a lack of research,
or poor judgment, on the part of executives. The company anticipates that the same problem will occur the following year as well ("PSS World Medical adjusts earnings target for fiscal
2007," 2006). Opportunities * This firm can continue to serve the markets it does and expand its distribution of influenza vaccine geographically. * This
company can branch out to produce new and innovative equipment as these products emerge in the marketplace. * The firm can enhance its distribution method and make better use
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