companies

Companies

Accenture — World's largest listed consulting firm, facing AI disruption
Accor — French hotel chain expanding in Africa
ADNOC — UAE's national oil company, led by Sultan Al Jaber
Advantest — Japanese semiconductor-testing equipment maker, Nikkei 225 member
AgniKul Cosmos — Indian space startup, 3D-printed rockets, satellite "taxi" service
Air India — India's flag carrier, 27% domestic market share
Airbnb — American accommodation platform, 8m+ listings, $78bn market value
Ajinomoto — Japanese MSG maker controlling 95% of AI-chip insulation film
Akeso Bio — Chinese biotech whose lung-cancer drug beat Merck's Keytruda
Aluminium Bahrain (ALBA) — Bahrain's aluminium smelter, biggest outside China
Alibaba — Chinese e-commerce giant founded by Jack Ma
Alphabet — Google's parent, facing two DoJ antitrust monopoly cases
Altice — Drahi's telecoms empire split in three, serial debt restructurer
Amazon — $2.3trn tech titan founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994
Amtrak — America's national railway firm, founded 1971, record ridership
Anduril — American maker of autonomous weapons backed by Thiel
Anta — Chinese sportswear firm, third-biggest globally by sales
Anthropic — AI safety lab founded by OpenAI defectors, maker of Claude
Apollo — American private-credit giant, launched first private-asset ETF
Apple — Tech giant deeply dependent on Chinese manufacturing
AppLovin — American digital-ads firm, 30-fold share rise, S&P 500 entrant
Arm — British chip designer, Japanese-controlled, 300bn+ chips shipped
ASML — Dutch maker of the world's only extreme-ultraviolet lithography machines
AstraZeneca — Britain's most valuable listed pharma firm, formed from Anglo-Swedish merger
Atlassian — Australian enterprise-software company, listed Nasdaq 2015
Aurora Therapeutics — Gene-editing firm for ultra-rare diseases, founded by Jennifer Doudna
Auterion — American drone-tech firm, Skynode strike kits and Nemyx swarming software
Avalanche Energy — Seattle fusion startup building barrel-sized Orbitron reactors
Axel Springer — German media group, owns Bild and the Telegraph, led by Döpfner
BAE Systems — One of two British warship builders, Type 26 frigates on the Clyde
Baidu — China's search giant, expanding into cloud and autonomous vehicles
Baker Hughes — American oil-services firm, one of the industry's leading trio
Banco Master — Collapsed Brazilian bank, biggest bank fraud in Brazilian history
BASF — German chemicals giant, sold coatings for €7.7bn
Baskin-Robbins — World's biggest ice-cream company, founded 1945
Bayer — German drugs and chemicals conglomerate, Monsanto's disastrous acquirer
Baykar — Turkish dronemaker with joint venture with Leonardo
BeOne Medicines — First Chinese firm to win FDA cancer drug approval
Berkshire Hathaway — America's ninth-most-valuable company, built by Warren Buffett
Bertelsmann — Germany's biggest media company, owns Penguin Random House and BMG
Beyond Meat — American plant-based meat maker, went public 2019 at ~$4bn
Black Cube — Israeli political-intelligence firm, worked for Weinstein
BlackBerry — Canadian tech firm that once dominated smartphones
BlackRock — World's largest asset manager, run by Larry Fink
Blackstone — American alternative-asset manager behind BREIT and BCRED
Blue Origin — Bezos-owned rocket company pursuing reusable spacecraft
Blue Owl — American private-credit firm, restricted retail redemptions in 2026
Blumhouse — American horror-film studio founded in 2000, bare-bones approach
Boeing — America's biggest exporter, duopolist with Airbus
Boston Metal — American green-steel startup using molten oxide electrolysis
BP — British oil major with one of the world's biggest trading desks
Bridgewater — One of the world's biggest hedge funds, founded by Ray Dalio
Brightline — Private American inter-city rail firm, 180+ deaths since 2018
BYD — China's biggest EV maker, vertically integrated, 4.3m sales in 2024
ByteDance — Chinese tech firm behind TikTok, rising force in AI
Cambricon Technologies — Chinese chip designer supporting DeepSeek's eight-bit format
Candela — Swedish maker of electric hydrofoiling boats, in serial production
Canva — Australian design-tools company, valued at $42bn
Capri — American luxury group, owns Michael Kors, sold Versace to Prada
CATL — World's largest battery-maker, headquartered in Ningde, China
Cerebras — American AI-chip startup making dinner-plate-sized inference processors
Chagee — Chinese premium tea chain, NYSE-listed, expanding globally
Chanel — World's second-biggest luxury label, owned by the Wertheimer brothers
Chang Guang Satellite Technology (CGST) — Chinese satellite firm, operates Jilin-1 constellation, PLA-linked
Chapel Down — Britain's largest wine producer, based in Kent
Character.AI — AI companionship app with 20m users, founders poached by Google
Chery International — Chinese carmaker, Jaecoo 7 dubbed the "Temu Range Rover"
Chevron — American oil supermajor, biggest operations in Guyana
China National Tobacco Corporation — State-owned Chinese tobacco giant, 2.4trn cigarettes a year
Citadel — Most profitable hedge-fund manager of all time, run by Ken Griffin
Citigroup — American bank expanding in Charlotte, shifting jobs from New York
CK Hutchison — Hong Kong conglomerate selling $23bn in port terminals
Clearview AI — American facial-recognition firm, 70bn+ images scraped from web
CMA-CGM — Major shipping firm, $10bn United Ports joint venture with Stonepeak
Coca-Cola — American soft-drinks company, 17% of the US market
Comcast — American media conglomerate, owner of Universal theme parks
Commerzbank — Germany's second-biggest listed lender, founded 1870 in Hamburg
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) — American fusion startup using tokamaks with high-temperature superconductors
Compass Pathways — Pharma firm developing synthetic psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression
Continental — German tyre maker shedding auto-parts divisions
CoreCivic — American operator of immigration detention facilities
Coretronic — Taiwanese manufacturer of non-red surveillance drones
CoreWeave — American neocloud, started as crypto miner, $75bn market value
Corning — 174-year-old American materials firm, maker of Gorilla Glass
Cornish Metals — London-listed firm reopening Britain's last tin mine in Cornwall
Cortical Labs — Australian startup building biological computers from human neurons
COSCO — Chinese state-owned shipper, party-controlled, expanding in Europe
Coupang — South Korean e-commerce giant, listed in America, $35bn+ sales
CrowdStrike — American cyber-security firm, leader in AI-defence collaboration
Czechoslovak Group (CSG) — Czech arms-maker, Europe's second-largest ammunition producer
d-Matrix — Californian AI-chip startup using in-memory computing for inference
Danone — French dairy giant, acquiring Huel, benefiting from yogurt popularity
Dassault — French aerospace firm, builds Rafale, leads FCAS fighter project
De Beers — Diamond firm founded by Cecil Rhodes, owned by Anglo American
Deep Fission — Nuclear startup burying reactors in mile-deep shafts
DeepSeek — Chinese AI startup that cut computing needs for AI
Deliveroo — British food-delivery firm bought by DoorDash for £2.9bn
Destinus — Dutch firm making long-range missiles at a fraction of the cost
Deutsche Bahn — Germany's state-owned rail giant, in "permanent crisis"
Diageo — British drinks giant, brews Guinness, hit by Trump's tariffs
Digantara — Indian space startup, satellite-mounted lasers for tracking debris and missiles
Disney — Century-old entertainment company, parks dominate profits
DJI — World's largest drone-maker, headquartered in Shenzhen
DP World — Dubai's port company, expanding in Tanzania and Peru
Drexel Burnham Lambert — Collapsed 1990 investment bank, incubator of private-credit titans
East-West Seed — Dutch tropical seed company improving smallholder farming in 80+ countries
eBay — Online marketplace founded in 1995, lately revived around collectibles and second-hand goods
eGenesis — American biotech rearing gene-edited pigs for organ transplants
EHang — Chinese eVTOL maker, first to get commercial passenger licence
Electra — American green-steel startup using electrowinning at room temperature
Electronic Arts — American game developer taken private by Saudi-led consortium for $55bn
Eli Lilly — American pharma firm behind the Zepbound weight-loss jab
Elliott Management — American activist hedge fund, industrialised shareholder activism
Emirates — World's biggest international carrier, based in Dubai
Epic Bio — Californian epigenetic-editing firm targeting muscular dystrophy
Epirus — California defence-tech startup making microwave anti-drone weapons
EQT — Swedish private-equity firm, sole European rival to America's PE giants
Erewhon — LA luxury grocer, ten stores, celebrity clientele, $21 smoothies
Estée Lauder — American luxury beauty company, struggling to recover from China daigou crackdown
Etched — Californian AI-chip startup custom-built for transformer models
Ethiopian Airlines — Africa's largest airline, planning $10bn airport near Bishoftu
Eutelsat — French satellite operator expanding African broadband
EveryONE Medicines — Biotech firm pioneering MHRA process-approved custom gene therapies
ExxonMobil — American oil supermajor heavily exposed to the Middle East
Farmacias Similares — Mexican pharmacy chain selling 45% of the country's prescriptions
Ferrari — Italian luxury carmaker, €76bn valuation, founded 1947
Ferretti — Italian luxury yacht-maker controlled by China's Weichai, fighting a takeover bid
Fervo — Leading American geothermal startup, $1.4bn, backed by Google
Flutterwave — Nigerian payments unicorn, expecting to go public
Ford — One of America's big three carmakers, planning $30k EV pickup
Fox Corporation — Murdoch-controlled American media company focused on news and sport
Foxconn — Taiwanese contract manufacturer, Apple's principal supplier
Franklin Templeton — Investment fund, pioneered emerging-markets investing under Mobius
GameStop — American video-game seller beloved of retail investors, bidding for eBay
Gap Inc — American clothing company, owns Old Navy, turnaround under Dickson
Garfield — British startup, first firm regulated to provide AI legal services
GE Aerospace — Senior heir to General Electric, dominant jet-engine maker
GE Vernova — American wind-turbine manufacturer, smaller overseas base than European rivals
Geely — Private Chinese carmaker with about a tenth of the market
General Electric — Once world's most valuable firm, broke into three heirs worth $600bn
General Matter — Startup aiming to privately enrich uranium in America
General Motors — One of America's big three carmakers, $4bn petrol-EV pivot
Assicurazioni Generali — Italy's biggest insurer, major holder of public debt
Geo Group — American detention-facilities operator profiting from immigration crackdown
Glencore — Swiss-British miner, biggest Western investor in Congo
GlobalX — American charter airline profiting from ICE deportation flights
Goldman Sachs — American investment bank, nudging staff to Dallas and Salt Lake City
Goldwind — Chinese wind-turbine maker expanding overseas
GoTo — Indonesian super-app formed from Gojek and Tokopedia merger
Grab — Singapore-based super-app for ride-hailing, delivery and fintech
GRAIL — American biotech behind the Galleri multi-cancer blood test
Groq — American AI chip company specialising in inference workloads
GSK — British drug company, AI tools Phenformer and Cogito Forge
Gunvor — Swiss-based oil trader co-founded by Swedish billionaire Törnqvist
Halliburton — American oil-services firm, fracking fleets booked out in America
Hanwha Ocean — South Korean shipbuilder, world's third most valuable
Hapag-Lloyd — German shipping giant, expanding in Brazil, India and Israel
Hard Rock International — Seminole-owned hospitality empire built around the Hard Rock Cafe brand
Harmonic — American AI startup verifying mathematical proofs with its Aristotle bot
Heathrow Airport — Britain's main international airport, planning costly third runway
Heirs Energies — Nigerian oil firm, largest shareholder in Seplat
Helion — American fusion startup, contracted to supply Microsoft from 2028
Helsing — European defence-tech company applying AI to military uses
Hengli — Chinese petrochemical firm, world's biggest PTA producer, on Changxing Island
Heritage Auctions — Dallas auction house, $2.16bn in sales, biggest in collectibles
Hermès — French ultra-luxury brand, overtook LVMH in market value in 2025
Hertha — American green-steel startup using methane pyrolysis
HeyTea — Upmarket Chinese tea chain expanding in America
Home Depot — World's biggest DIY chain, barometer for America's housing market
Honda — Japanese carmaker, first net loss since 1957, struggling with EVs
Honeywell — American industrial conglomerate, planning three-way split in 2026
Hoya — Japanese health-care firm, leading photomask-blank supplier
Hua Hong — Chinese foundry, began making 7nm chips in 2026
Huawei — Chinese tech giant making AI chips to rival Nvidia
Hudson's Bay Company — Canada's oldest company, fur trader turned retailer, liquidated 2025
Humain — Saudi state-backed AI data-centre company chaired by MBS
HYBE — Major South Korean K-pop label, behind BTS
IBM — 115-year-old American tech firm, mainframes, AI and quantum computing
IKEA — Swedish furniture giant, 480+ shops in 63 countries, founded 1943
Impossible Foods — American plant-based meat maker, rival to Beyond Meat
IndiGo — India's dominant airline, 66% domestic market share
Inditex — Spanish clothing group, parent of Zara, €40bn in sales
Infosys — Indian IT-services firm, co-founders became major philanthropists
Insilico Medicine — Boston biotech, first to apply transformer AI to drug discovery
Intel — American chipmaker fallen behind TSMC, breaking itself apart
Interactive Brokers — American online brokerage, $110bn, preferred by leveraged retail investors
Investor AB — Swedish holding company of the Wallenberg dynasty, 35% of Stockholm bourse
Isar Aerospace — German rocket startup in Space Valley near Munich
Isomorphic Labs — Alphabet's AI-powered pharma firm, 19 drug programmes
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) — Israel's largest defence contractor, maker of the Arrow system
Ivanhoe Mines — Canadian miner, jointly operates one of Congo's largest mines
Jane Street — American hedge fund rivalling big banks in trading revenue
JBS — World's biggest food company by revenue, Brazilian meat-packer
JD.com — Chinese e-commerce giant, creator of the 618 shopping festival
J D Wetherspoon — Britain's most popular pub chain, 794 pubs, record £2.12bn sales
Joby Aviation — Californian eVTOL maker, $12bn, launching air taxis in Dubai
JPMorgan Chase — America's largest bank, led by Jamie Dimon since 2006
Kalshi — American prediction-market platform with Trump family ties
Kering — French luxury conglomerate, owner of Gucci, controlled by Pinault
Khan Academy — Online learning platform with AI tutor Khanmigo
Kirkland & Ellis — America's highest-paid law firm, dominant in private equity
KKR — American investment firm, pioneer of leveraged buy-outs
Klarna — Swedish fintech that reversed course on AI customer service
Kobold Metals — California mining firm using AI, backed by Bill Gates
Kone — Finnish liftmaker, merging with TKE to become world's biggest
Kraft Heinz — American packaged-food giant formed in 2015, market value down three-fifths
Kunway Technology — Taiwanese maker of non-red kamikaze drones, exports to Ukraine
Kweichow Moutai — World's most valuable spirits company, Chinese baijiu maker
LandSpace — Chinese private rocket firm, first non-American to attempt booster reuse
Learning Resources — American toymaker, lead plaintiff in IEEPA Supreme Court case
Lego — World's biggest toymaker, opening first US factory in 2027
Liberty Media — American media firm, owns Formula One and MotoGP
Lifezone Metals — American-listed firm, majority owner of Kabanga nickel mine in Tanzania
Live Nation — American entertainment firm, owner of Ticketmaster
Lloyd's of London — World's best-known specialty-insurance marketplace, founded ~1688
Lockheed Martin — American defence prime, building space-based interceptors for Golden Dome
L'Oréal — French cosmetics giant, owner of Lancôme and Maybelline
Lovable — Swedish vibe-coding startup, $300m ARR from $1m in 14 months
Lululemon Athletica — Canadian athleisure brand, third-biggest sportswear firm, 750+ shops
LVMH — World's largest luxury conglomerate, 75 maisons, €85bn in sales
Maersk — One of the world's biggest container-shipping firms
Majid al-Futtaim — Emirati conglomerate, Mall of the Emirates, $19bn in assets
Marks and Spencer — British retailer with 32m customers, turnaround under Stuart Machin
Math, Inc. — AI startup formalising mathematical proofs with its Gauss model
Mattel — Largest listed toymaker, diversifying away from China
MatX — AI-chip startup using splittable systolic arrays, ex-Google founders
McDonald's — World's largest fast-food chain, 95% franchised, HQ Chicago
McKinsey — Elite strategy consultancy, turning 100 in 2026, losing share to BCG
Mediobanca — Italy's pivotal investment bank, biggest Generali shareholder
Meesho — Indian e-commerce platform for mass-market fashion, 199m buyers
Meituan — Chinese delivery platform with 7.5m couriers
Meta — American tech firm facing FTC monopoly case over Instagram/WhatsApp
Microsoft — American tech titan, biggest investor in OpenAI, $2trn in AI-era value
Millennium Management — American multi-manager hedge fund run by Israel Englander
Mingyang — Chinese wind-turbine maker expanding into Britain and Europe
MiniMax — Chinese AI lab accused of distilling American models
Miniso — Chinese retailer from Guangzhou, 3,300+ overseas outlets
Mistral — French AI firm, Europe's only real AI champion
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries — Japanese defence contractor, Mogami-class frigates for Australia
Mixue — Chinese ice-cream chain, world's largest fast-food chain by outlets
Monte dei Paschi di Siena — World's oldest bank, acquired Mediobanca, boardroom coup
Moonshot AI — Beijing AI lab behind Kimi K2, chip-constrained on inference
Moore Threads — Chinese AI chip supplier, 400% debut surge in Shanghai
Morgan Stanley — American investment bank, largest employer in Alpharetta, Georgia
Mozilla — Non-profit creator of the Firefox web browser
MP Materials — America's sole rare-earth producer, mine in California, factory in Texas
Muyuan Foodstuff — China's biggest pig producer, expanding to Vietnam
Nation Media Group — Africa's largest media empire, Kenya-based, founded 1959
Naver — South Korea's dominant search engine and digital-map provider
Neolix — Chinese maker of autonomous delivery vans, fleet in Qingdao
Nestlé — World's biggest food firm, three CEOs in one year
Netflix — American streaming giant with 300m+ subscribers, building franchises
News Corp — Murdoch publishing empire: WSJ, HarperCollins, REA Group stake
Nexperia — Dutch chipmaker seized from Chinese owner by Dutch government
NextEra Energy — World's largest listed utility, buying Dominion to feed AI's power demand
Nike — American sportswear company founded on Oregon running tracks in the 1960s
Nissan — Japanese carmaker in brutal restructuring, seven factory closures by 2028
Nittobo — Sole supplier of T-glass for packaging AI chips
Nordex — European wind-turbine manufacturer, one of Europe's big three
Northvolt — Swedish battery maker that went bust despite raising $15bn
Novo Nordisk — Danish pharma firm behind Wegovy, the first blockbuster obesity drug
Nvidia — American semiconductor giant barred from selling AI chips to China
Nyobolt — Cambridge spinoff making ultra-fast-charging batteries with niobium-tungsten anodes
Oando — Nigerian oil company expanding onshore after acquiring ENI blocks
Octopus Energy — British green-power provider, spun off Kraken at $9bn
Onafriq — South African fintech enabling cross-border mobile-money payments
OnlyFans — British creator platform, ~$7bn in spending in 2023
OpenAI — AI lab valued at $500bn, raised over $60bn, maker of ChatGPT
Oracle — American database giant building its own cloud, Stargate partner
Orsted — World's biggest offshore-wind developer, Danish, majority state-owned
Otis — American liftmaker, current global leader with 18% market share
Pairwise — North Carolina biotech making gene-edited seedless fruits
Palantir — American big-data firm founded to fight terrorism
Palo Alto Networks — American cyber-security firm led by Nikesh Arora
Paramount — Century-old film/TV company being acquired by Skydance
PDVSA — Venezuela's state oil company, nationalised in 2007, 70,000 staff
Pemex — Mexico's national oil company, world's most indebted state oil firm
PepsiCo — American food-and-beverage company, maker of Pepsi and Lay's
Perplexity — American AI search startup valued at close to $14bn
Petrobras — Brazil's state oil firm, deep-water drilling leader
Pfizer — American pharma firm, maker of covid vaccines and Viagra
Polymarket — Largest prediction-market platform, offshore, insider-betting arrests
Pony.ai — Chinese robotaxi operator expanding into Europe and the Middle East
Pop Mart — World's most valuable listed toymaker, $38bn, maker of Labubu
Poppi — American prebiotic-soda brand acquired by PepsiCo for $2bn
Porsche — German sports-car maker, spun from VW in 2022, struggling with EV pivot
Proxima Fusion — German nuclear-fusion startup, Max Planck spinoff
Puig — Catalan beauty firm targeted by Estée Lauder in a $6bn bid
Qatar Fertiliser Company — State-backed Qatari firm producing 14% of world's urea
Qualcomm — American chipmaker probed by China's SAMR over Autotalks deal
Quantinuum — $11bn quantum-computing startup backed by Nvidia and Honeywell
Quantum Systems — German surveillance-drone maker, valued at $4bn
Ralph Lauren — American fashion label, turnaround success, 89% share-price rise
Rapidus — Japanese chipmaker aiming to leapfrog to 2nm transistors
Ratel Robotics — Ukrainian UGV maker, formerly a street-lighting company
Real Madrid — World's dominant football club for most of past 25 years, member-owned non-profit
RedBird — American media-and-sport investment firm, $12bn AUM, founded 2014
Rede Globo — Brazilian media giant, long-time telenovella monopolist
Reliance Industries — Indian conglomerate and one of the country's largest oil refiners
Renaissance Energy — Nigerian consortium that took over Shell's onshore subsidiary
Renfe — Spanish state-owned rail company, former high-speed monopoly
Replika — AI companionship app with humanlike companion and support
Revolut — London-based fintech unicorn, $75bn valuation, 230+ alumni startups
Rheinmetall — Germany's biggest defence firm, tanks and ammunition
Rio Tinto — World's fourth-most valuable miner, in talks to acquire Glencore
Robinhood — American online broker, S&P 500 entrant in 2025
Rocket Lab — Californian rocket firm, builds Electron launcher, started in New Zealand
Rosneft — Russia's largest energy firm, runs the $160bn Vostok Oil project
Ryanair — Europe's largest airline, Irish low-cost carrier, 640+ planes
Safaricom — Kenya's largest mobile-network operator, state selling $1.6bn stake
SAGE Geosystems — Texan geothermal startup, underground energy storage for Meta
Salesforce — Global CRM leader, co-founded by Marc Benioff
Samsung Electronics — South Korea's biggest company, HBM chipmaker
Samyang Foods — South Korean ramyeon maker, Buldak brand, Gen Alpha favourite
Sanrio — Japanese "emotional commerce" firm, owner of Hello Kitty
SAP — German ERP inventor, Europe's most valuable company
Saronic — American defence startup making maritime drones
Saudi Aramco — World's biggest oil company, diversifying beyond crude
Scale AI — American data-labelling firm, 49% owned by Meta
Schindler — Swiss liftmaker with 15% global market share
Schneider Electric — French industrial equipment maker, early AI adopter with 100 apps
Scribe Therapeutics — Californian epigenetic-editing firm co-founded by Jennifer Doudna
Sea Limited — South-East Asian tech giant, owner of Shopee, valued at $92bn
Seplat — Nigerian oil firm, acquired ExxonMobil's onshore licences for $1.3bn
Serve Robotics — American food-delivery robot company, 2,000 bots in 20 cities
Shein — Chinese fast-fashion giant headquartered in Singapore
Shell — British oil major, share price up modestly amid the Iran war
Shield AI — American defence startup developing autonomous pilots for air combat
Shopify — Canadian e-commerce software maker with AI-first hiring policy
Siemens — German industrial conglomerate, breaking up to focus on industrial tech
Siemens Gamesa — European wind-turbine maker, struggling division of Siemens Energy
Sierra — AI agent startup co-founded by Bret Taylor, outcomes-based pricing
Simon Property Group — Largest owner of shopping malls in America
Sinopec — Chinese state-owned oil refiner, expects oil demand to peak in 2027
SK Hynix — South Korean memory chipmaker, KOSPI heavyweight, considering US listing
Skycutter — British drone company, won Pentagon contract, may leave Britain
SLB — American oil-services firm, one of the industry's leading trio
SM Entertainment — South Korean K-pop label with Singapore training academy
SMIC — Partially state-owned Chinese chipmaker, restricted from EUV tools
SoftBank — Japanese conglomerate, owns 87% of Arm, all-in on OpenAI and AI infrastructure
Space Forge
Space Pioneer — Chinese private rocket firm, orbit on maiden liquid-fuel launch
SpaceX — Musk's rocket firm, filing $75bn IPO, owns Starlink
SpektreWorks — Arizona startup, maker of the LUCAS suicide drone
Sphere Entertainment — Dolan-controlled owner of the Sphere in Las Vegas
Spirit Airlines — American low-cost carrier that ceased operating in May 2026
Spotify — Swedish music streamer, only European firm this century worth >$100bn
Standard Oil — Rockefeller's petroleum monopoly, broken up by Supreme Court in 1911
Starbucks — World's biggest coffee chain, struggling with falling sales
Starcloud — American firm building orbital data centres, launched test satellite 2025
Stark Defence — German dronemaker offering battlefield software and nautical drones
Stellantis — One of America's big three carmakers, reviving the Hemi V8
Strategy Inc — World's largest corporate bitcoin holder, formerly MicroStrategy
Strava — Exercise app with 180m users, founded 2009, filing for IPO
Substrate — American chipmaking startup using X-ray lithography, backed by Thiel
Summit Carbon Solutions — Iowa-founded carbon-capture pipeline company, 2,000-mile route
Supermicro — American server-maker, co-founder charged with chip smuggling to China
Sweden Ballistics (Swebal) — Swedish TNT startup near Nobel's old dynamite factory
Sweetch Energy — French osmotic power company using ion-selective nanotube membranes
Synthesia — Britain's biggest generative-AI firm, $2bn+ valuation, video avatars
TAE Technologies — American fusion startup, $6bn merger with Trump's social-media firm
Tapestry — American luxury group, owns Coach and Kate Spade
Tata Group — Indian conglomerate building the country's first chip fab
Tekever — Portuguese dronemaker, one of Europe's three defence unicorns
Teleperformance — French customer-service outsourcer, share price hit by AI fears
Temu — Chinese e-commerce platform owned by PDD, based in Boston
Tencent — Chinese tech giant, maker of WeChat with 1.4bn users
Tesla — American electric-vehicle maker led by Elon Musk
Thames Water — Britain's largest water utility, severely indebted
The Metals Company — Canadian deep-sea mining firm prospecting in the Pacific
The Observer — World's oldest Sunday newspaper, acquired by Tortoise Media
The Row — American quiet-luxury brand founded by the Olsen twins
Thunder Tiger — Taiwanese drone maker, plans Ohio factory, selling to Pentagon
Thyssenkrupp — German industrial conglomerate, restructuring into independent units
Tokyo Electron — Japanese maker of advanced chip-manufacturing equipment
Tongwei — Chinese solar-cell maker, fish-food firm turned PV giant
Tortoise Media — British media startup practising "slow journalism"
TotalEnergies — French oil supermajor, biggest Western producer in sub-Saharan Africa
Toto — Japanese toilet-maker and leading producer of AI-chip electrostatic chucks
Toyota — World's largest carmaker by sales, facing US tariff pain
TSMC — World's dominant chip foundry, founded 1987, $1trn market value
Uber — World's largest ride-hailing platform, pivoting to robotaxi deals
Ukrzaliznytsia — Ukraine's state railway, wartime lifeline, freight halved by conflict
UniCredit — Italy's second-biggest bank, hostile bidder for Germany's Commerzbank
Unilever — British conglomerate exploring sale of its food business
Union Pacific — Major American Class I railway, runs tracks west of Chicago
United Therapeutics — American biotech producing pig organs via subsidiary Revivicor
UnitedHealth Group — America's largest health insurer, reliant on government programmes
Vanguard — World's largest fund manager, $10trn, co-operative structure
Vanke — Once China's second-biggest property developer, pleading with creditors
Venture Global — American liquefied natural gas firm
Vestas — Danish wind-turbine manufacturer, one of Europe's big three
Victoria's Secret — World's biggest lingerie seller, struggling to reinvent itself
VinFast — Vietnamese EV maker, losing money on every car sold
Vingroup — Vietnam's biggest conglomerate, founded by Pham Nhat Vuong
Volkswagen — Europe's biggest carmaker, restructuring around Chinese partnerships
Wahaha — Chinese beverage empire founded by Zong Qinghou
Walmart — World's largest company by revenue, reinvented through e-commerce
Warner Bros Discovery — American entertainment firm, HBO Max, being acquired by Paramount
Waterstones — British bookshop chain, ~300 branches, owned by Elliott Management
Waymo — World's biggest robotaxi fleet, 2,500 cars in five US cities
Weichai — Chinese state-owned diesel-engine maker, controls Italy's Ferretti
what3words — London-based location app using three-word addresses
Wise — European fintech moving its listing from London to New York
World Labs — Fei Fei Li's AI startup building 3D world models
World Liberty Financial — Trump family cryptocurrency firm with USD1 stablecoin
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) — Dominant American pro-wrestling company, $1.4bn revenue
Wynn Resorts — American casino operator building mega-casino in UAE
X — Social-media platform formerly known as Twitter, owned by Elon Musk
xAI — Elon Musk's AI lab, maker of Grok
Xiaomi — Chinese tech giant, third-largest smartphone seller, making EVs
Xpeng — Chinese EV maker pivoting to humanoid robots and flying cars
Zabar's — Iconic New York deli on the Upper West Side, founded 1934
Zijin Mining — Chinese mining giant, world's 4th most valuable miner
Zipline — American drone-delivery firm serving 5,000 African clinics
Zoox — Amazon-owned robotaxi company with a steeringless bidirectional cab
ZTE — Chinese telecom giant, built Venezuela's Fatherland Card system