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Arrow is the world's largest distributor of electronic components and a major enterprise-IT distributor — the middleman that buys chips and software from ~900 suppliers and resells to ~125,000 manufacturers and resellers. It earns a thin ~2% margin on ~$31B of pass-through sales, so profit swings hard with the electronics and IT-spending cycle.

What Arrow Electronics, Inc. really sells

Arrow is the world's largest distributor of electronic components and a major enterprise-IT distributor — the middleman that buys chips and software from ~900 suppliers and resells to ~125,000 manufacturers and resellers. It earns a thin ~2% margin on ~$31B of pass-through sales, so profit swings hard with the electronics and IT-spending cycle.

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