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Major group 48: Communications
Companies whose SIC industry code starts with 484. 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 3 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.
| Dish Network Corp | Comcast Corp New | Discovery Inc | Report | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dish Network Corp | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Comcast Corp New | 0.33 | 0.73 | ||
| Discovery Inc | 0.33 | 0.66 |
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 | 3 | 42% | 102909 | |
| 2 | BlackRock Inc. | Big Three | 3 | 25% | 1364742 | |
| 3 | State Street Corp | Big Three | 3 | 9% | 93751 | |
| 4 | Royce & Associates LP | Asset manager | 3 | 5% | 38777 | |
| 5 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | Asset manager | 3 | 4% | 19617 | |
| 6 | FMR Llc*Fil LTD | Asset manager | 3 | 3% | 315066 | |
| 7 | Geode Capital Management, LLC | Asset manager | 3 | 1% | 1214717 | |
| 8 | Dodge & Cox | Asset manager | 2 | 1% | 200217 | |
| 9 | Morgan Stanley | Asset manager | 3 | 1% | 895421 | |
| 10 | Ameriprise Financial Inc | Asset manager | 3 | 1.0% | 820027 | |
| 11 | Bank of America Corp /DE/ | Asset manager | 3 | 0.9% | 70858 | |
| 12 | Bank of New York Mellon Corp | Asset manager | 3 | 0.7% | 1629943 | |
| 13 | Northern Trust Corp | Asset manager | 3 | 0.7% | 73124 | |
| 14 | Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | Asset manager | 3 | 0.6% | 354204 | |
| 15 | Wells Fargo & Company/Mn | Asset manager | 3 | 0.5% | 72971 | |
| 16 | Eagle Capital Management LLC | Asset manager | 2 | 0.5% | 945631 | |
| 17 | UBS Asset Management Americas Inc*Ubs Group AG | Asset manager | 3 | 0.5% | 1610520 | |
| 18 | Credit Suisse AG/ | Asset manager | 3 | 0.4% | 824468 | |
| 19 | Invesco LTD. | Asset manager | 3 | 0.3% | 914208 | |
| 20 | Barclays PLC | Asset manager | 3 | 0.2% | 312069 | |
| 21 | Alliancebernstein L.P. | Asset manager | 3 | 0.2% | 1109448 | |
| 22 | Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | Asset manager | 3 | 0.2% | 884546 | |
| 23 | Price T Rowe Associates Inc /MD/ | Asset manager | 3 | 0.2% | 80255 | |
| 24 | Deutsche Bank Ag\ | Asset manager | 3 | 0.2% | 948046 | |
| 25 | Norges Bank | Asset manager | 3 | 0.2% | 1374170 |
The companies, 2020 Q4
| Company | Reported owners | Reported ownership | SEC CIK | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comcast Corp New SIC 4841 · S&P 500 · dual class | 2160 | 84.70% | 1166691 | |
| Discovery Inc SIC 4841 · S&P 500 · dual class | 685 | 101.0% | 1437107 | |
| Dish Network Corp SIC 4841 · S&P 500 · dual class · outlier | 440 | 97.82% | 1001082 |
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