Tablets & E-Readers
Manufacturers of consumer tablet computers and e-reader devices.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Consumer Electronics (9.3.4), the segment that Tablets & E-Readers sits within. They are not figures for Tablets & E-Readers on its own.
- Market size
- ~$5.1B
- Growth
- ~11.1%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
- Companies
- ~525 firms
81.5% of firms have fewer than 20 employees: 428 micro-businesses, below most mandates.
- 20–99
- 7072%
- 100–499
- 1414%
- 500+
- 1313%
Strong growth off the smallest base in hardware, reflecting the pandemic build-out of home audio and video rather than a durable trend. Domestic manufacture is a thin slice of a category dominated by imports, so what is measured here is largely specialty and professional equipment.
NAICS 334310. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Consumer-electronics product manufacturing and sales
Key economics
- Revenue per firm
- $9,700,162
- Revenue per employee
- $397,610
- Employees per firm
- 20.0
- Recurring revenue
- Low
- EBITDA margin
- Brand- and specialty-dependent
- Capex intensity
- Moderate
product sales
Characteristics
- Scale-driven: payroll is only 16% of revenue, so the cost base is assets, not headcount
- Thin strategic-buyer pool: only 13 firms exceed 500 employees, so exits skew sponsor-to-sponsor
- Small U.S. domestic base; most production offshore.
- U.S. activity is premium, professional, and niche.
- Brands/retail profiled under consumer/retail.
NAICS 334310. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census.
M&A deal context
Who’s acquiring
- Consumer-electronics brands
- Specialty/pro-AV manufacturers
- PE-backed platforms
What’s driving deals
- Premium and professional-AV niches.
- Smart-home and audio trends.
- Specialty domestic production.
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