A PESTLE analysis is a framework that analyzes the macroenvironmental factors in the political, economic, sociocultural, technological, legal, and environmental domains that may affect an organization. It is used to identify threats and weaknesses which then feed into a SWOT analysis. The six factors - political, economic, sociocultural, technological, legal, and environmental - make up the PESTLE acronym and each category contains examples of factors that should be analyzed.