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Major group 45: Transportation by air
Part of 451 Air transportation, scheduled, and air courier
Companies with SIC industry code 4512. Companies with no code (SIC 0) and shell companies (SIC 9995) are left out.
The tiles, heatmap and tables below use the industry’s S&P 500 companies.
Average profit weight in the industry over time
The mean profit weight over every ordered pair of the industry’s companies, each quarter: S&P 500 companies (solid) and all companies (faded). Click a quarter to show it.
Computed from the current data release, using every firm in the sample. Published papers used earlier releases and samples, so their figures differ slightly.
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Profit weights between the 4 largest companies, 2020 Q4
Each cell is the profit weight of the row company’s shareholders on the column company (darker: higher). Companies are ordered so that tightly linked groups form blocks. Largest means most reported owners. Click a cell to compare the two companies.
| Alaska Airgroup Inc | Southwest Airlines Co | United Airlines Holdi… | Delta Air Lines Inc | Report | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Airgroup Inc | 0.81 | 0.74 | 0.66 | ||
| Southwest Airlines Co | 0.71 | 0.79 | 0.64 | ||
| United Airlines Holdings Inc | 0.87 | 1.07 | 0.80 | ||
| Delta Air Lines Inc | 0.66 | 0.73 | 0.67 |
Investors who drive it, 2020 Q4
The investors that contribute most to the industry’s average profit weight: roughly, those holding sizeable stakes in many of its companies at once. Investor types are inferred from the forms each investor files with the SEC and are under review. Anyone filing Forms 3/4/5 counts as an insider unless they also file 13F, in which case they count as an asset manager (such as Carl Icahn).
- Big Three
- Asset manager
- Non-financial blockholder
- Activist
- Insider
| # | Investor | Type | Companies held here | Share of the average | SEC CIK | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanguard Group Inc | Big Three | 4 | 43% | 102909 | |
| 2 | Primecap Management Co/Ca/ | Asset manager | 4 | 21% | 763212 | |
| 3 | BlackRock Inc. | Big Three | 4 | 16% | 1364742 | |
| 4 | State Street Corp | Big Three | 4 | 8% | 93751 | |
| 5 | FMR Llc*Fil LTD | Asset manager | 4 | 2% | 315066 | |
| 6 | Price T Rowe Associates Inc /MD/ | Asset manager | 4 | 2% | 80255 | |
| 7 | Geode Capital Management, LLC | Asset manager | 4 | 1% | 1214717 | |
| 8 | U S Global Investors Inc | Asset manager | 4 | 1% | 754811 | |
| 9 | Par Capital Management Inc | Asset manager | 4 | 0.8% | 1051359 | |
| 10 | Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | Asset manager | 4 | 0.8% | 354204 | |
| 11 | Capital International Inc /Ca/*Capital International Sarl*Capital International LTD /Ca/*Capital Research Global Investors*Capital World Investors*Capital International Investors*Capital Bank & Trust Co | Asset manager | 3 | 0.5% | 732812 | |
| 12 | Morgan Stanley | Asset manager | 4 | 0.4% | 895421 | |
| 13 | Northern Trust Corp | Asset manager | 4 | 0.4% | 73124 | |
| 14 | Bank of New York Mellon Corp | Asset manager | 4 | 0.3% | 1629943 | |
| 15 | Newport Trust Co | Asset manager | 2 | 0.2% | 1722329 | |
| 16 | Invesco LTD. | Asset manager | 4 | 0.2% | 914208 | |
| 17 | UBS Asset Management Americas Inc*Ubs Group AG | Asset manager | 4 | 0.2% | 1610520 | |
| 18 | Alliancebernstein L.P. | Asset manager | 4 | 0.1% | 1109448 | |
| 19 | Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | Asset manager | 4 | 0.1% | 884546 | |
| 20 | Nuveen Asset Management, LLC | Asset manager | 4 | 0.1% | 1521019 | |
| 21 | LSV Asset Management | Asset manager | 4 | 0.1% | 1050470 | |
| 22 | Bank of America Corp /DE/ | Asset manager | 4 | 0.1% | 70858 | |
| 23 | Ameriprise Financial Inc | Asset manager | 4 | 0.1% | 820027 | |
| 24 | Boston Partners | Asset manager | 2 | 0.1% | 1386060 | |
| 25 | Citadel Advisors LLC | Asset manager | 4 | 0.1% | 1255159 |
The companies, 2020 Q4
| Company | Reported owners | Reported ownership | SEC CIK | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Airlines Co SIC 4512 · S&P 500 | 979 | 76.60% | 92380 | |
| Delta Air Lines Inc SIC 4512 · S&P 500 | 924 | 72.52% | 27904 | |
| United Airlines Holdings Inc SIC 4512 · S&P 500 · outlier | 538 | 63.66% | 100517 | |
| Alaska Airgroup Inc SIC 4512 · S&P 500 · outlier | 496 | 78.60% | 766421 |
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