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Major group 48: Communications
Companies whose SIC industry code starts with 481. Companies with no code (SIC 0) and shell companies (SIC 9995) are left out.
Its 4-digit industries: 4812 Radiotelephone communications · 4813 Telephone communications (no radiotelephone)
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 5 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.
| Centurylink Inc | Telephone & Data Syst… | A T & T Inc | Verizon Communication… | T Mobile U S Inc | Report | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centurylink Inc | 0.72 | 0.49 | 0.51 | 0.23 | ||
| Telephone & Data Systems Inc | 0.64 | 0.48 | 0.49 | 0.23 | ||
| A T & T Inc | 1.25 | 1.36 | 0.98 | 0.45 | ||
| Verizon Communications Inc | 1.10 | 1.19 | 0.84 | 0.45 | ||
| T Mobile U S Inc | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.04 |
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 | 5 | 41% | 102909 | |
| 2 | BlackRock Inc. | Big Three | 5 | 35% | 1364742 | |
| 3 | State Street Corp | Big Three | 5 | 14% | 93751 | |
| 4 | Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | Asset manager | 5 | 2% | 354204 | |
| 5 | Geode Capital Management, LLC | Asset manager | 5 | 1% | 1214717 | |
| 6 | Norges Bank | Asset manager | 5 | 0.8% | 1374170 | |
| 7 | Northern Trust Corp | Asset manager | 5 | 0.7% | 73124 | |
| 8 | Bank of New York Mellon Corp | Asset manager | 5 | 0.6% | 1629943 | |
| 9 | Morgan Stanley | Asset manager | 5 | 0.5% | 895421 | |
| 10 | Bank of America Corp /DE/ | Asset manager | 5 | 0.4% | 70858 | |
| 11 | FMR Llc*Fil LTD | Asset manager | 5 | 0.3% | 315066 | |
| 12 | 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 | 4 | 0.3% | 732812 | |
| 13 | Price T Rowe Associates Inc /MD/ | Asset manager | 5 | 0.3% | 80255 | |
| 14 | Invesco LTD. | Asset manager | 5 | 0.2% | 914208 | |
| 15 | UBS Asset Management Americas Inc*Ubs Group AG | Asset manager | 5 | 0.2% | 1610520 | |
| 16 | Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | Asset manager | 5 | 0.2% | 884546 | |
| 17 | Legal & General Group PLC | Asset manager | 5 | 0.2% | 764068 | |
| 18 | Wells Fargo & Company/Mn | Asset manager | 5 | 0.1% | 72971 | |
| 19 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | Asset manager | 5 | 0.1% | 19617 | |
| 20 | Royce & Associates LP | Asset manager | 5 | 0.1% | 38777 | |
| 21 | Nuveen Asset Management, LLC | Asset manager | 4 | 0.1% | 1521019 | |
| 22 | Ameriprise Financial Inc | Asset manager | 5 | 0.1% | 820027 | |
| 23 | First Trust Advisors LP | Asset manager | 5 | 0.1% | 1125816 | |
| 24 | California Public Employees Retirement System | Asset manager | 5 | 0.1% | 919079 | |
| 25 | National Indemnity Co | Asset manager | 2 | 0.1% | 1067983 |
The companies, 2020 Q4
| Company | Reported owners | Reported ownership | SEC CIK | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verizon Communications Inc SIC 4812 · S&P 500 | 2722 | 66.56% | 732712 | |
| A T & T Inc SIC 4812 · S&P 500 | 2533 | 51.91% | 732717 | |
| T Mobile U S Inc SIC 4812 · S&P 500 | 987 | 93.02% | 1283699 | |
| Centurylink Inc SIC 4813 · S&P 500 | 628 | 74.80% | 18926 | |
| Telephone & Data Systems Inc SIC 4812 · S&P 500 · dual class | 260 | 92.05% | 1051512 |
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