Strategic Intelligence: IT Infrastructure Sector Scorecard Q1 2025 Update

Strategic Intelligence: IT Infrastructure Sector Scorecard Q1 2025 Update

Summary

The addition of tariffs to the thematic screen of GlobalData’s IT infrastructure sector scorecard, with a weighting of 15%, has shaken up the thematic rankings. Cisco maintains its position at the top of the list, but Amazon, ranked second at the end of 2024, has dropped to 10th due to its score of 1 out of 5 for the tariffs theme. This score suggests the theme will be highly detrimental to its future performance.

Among the big climbers is IBM, which rose from eighth in the thematic rankings in December 2024 to its current position of fourth thanks to a neutral score of 3 out of 5 for the tariffs theme and scores of 5 out of 5 for cybersecurity, high-performance computing, and observability. The latter theme has a 15% weighting, the same as the tariffs and artificial intelligence (AI) themes.

Scope

• This sector scorecard provides a top-down, comprehensive outlook for the key players in the IT infrastructure sector over the next two years, based on the key themes set to transform their industry landscape.

• Companies that invest in the right themes become success stories. Those that miss the important themes in their industry end up as failures.
• GlobalData’s thematic research ecosystem is a single, integrated global research platform that provides an easy-to-use framework for tracking all themes across all companies in all sectors. It has a proven track record of identifying the important themes early, enabling companies to make the right investments ahead of the competition, and secure that all-important competitive advantage.
• At GlobalData, we have developed a unique thematic methodology for ranking all major companies in all major sectors based on their relative strength in the big themes that are impacting their industries.
• Our thematic engine tags over 180 million data items across six alternative data sets—patents, jobs, deals, filings, social media, and news—to themes. The vast datasets within our thematic engine help our analysts to produce sector scorecards that identify the companies best placed to succeed in a future filled with multiple disruptive threats.