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Communications (general), SIC 488

Major group 48: Communications

No name is published for SIC 488, so it goes by its major group’s.

Companies whose SIC industry code starts with 488. Companies with no code (SIC 0) and shell companies (SIC 9995) are left out.

As of2020 Q4
Data cover 2000 Q4 – 2020 Q4, quarterly.
Only 1 company in the S&P 500 this quarter: the averages below rest on few pairs.

The tiles, heatmap and tables below use the industry’s S&P 500 companies.

Companies in 2020 Q4 1
Average profit weight between them –

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 1 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.

    Fewer than two S&P 500 companies in this industry in 2020 Q4. Show all companies.

    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
    #InvestorTypeCompanies held hereShare of the averageSEC CIKReport
    1 Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc. Asset manager 1 2230
    2 Fred Alger Management, LLC Asset manager 1 3520
    3 American International Group Inc Asset manager 1 5272
    4 Argus Investors' Counsel, Inc. Asset manager 1 7195
    5 Associated Banc-Corp Asset manager 1 7789
    6 Barings LLC Asset manager 1 9015
    7 Bank of Nova Scotia Asset manager 1 9631
    8 Bokf, NA Asset manager 1 9634
    9 Principal Financial Group Inc Asset manager 1 9712
    10 Beck Mack & Oliver LLC Asset manager 1 10742
    11 Boenning & Scattergood, Inc. Asset manager 1 12933
    12 Brown Brothers Harriman & Co Asset manager 1 14661
    13 Cannell Peter B & Co Inc Asset manager 1 16972
    14 Synovus Financial Corp Asset manager 1 18349
    15 Chase Investment Counsel Corp Asset manager 1 19475
    16 JPMorgan Chase & Co Asset manager 1 19617
    17 Lowe Brockenbrough & Co Inc Asset manager 1 22657
    18 Equitable Trust Co Asset manager 1 33250
    19 Fiduciary Trust Co Asset manager 1 35442
    20 Fifth Third Bancorp Asset manager 1 35527
    21 First American Trust, FSB Asset manager 1 36066
    22 M&T Bank Corp Asset manager 1 36270
    23 First National Bank of Omaha Asset manager 1 36644
    24 First Horizon National Corp Asset manager 1 36966
    25 Royce & Associates LP Asset manager 1 38777

    The companies, 2020 Q4

    CompanyReported ownersReported ownershipSEC CIKReport
    Disney Walt Co SIC 4888 · S&P 500 291665.65%1744489

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