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Major group 73: Business services
Part of 737 Computer programming, data processing, and other computer related services
Companies with SIC industry code 7372. 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 12 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.
| Nortonlifelock Inc | Activision Blizzard I… | Salesforce Com Inc | Cadence Design System… | Servicenow Inc | Intuit Inc | Citrix Systems Inc | Electronic Arts Inc | Synopsys Inc | Ansys Inc | Microsoft Corp | Zedge Inc | Report | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nortonlifelock Inc | 0.76 | 0.60 | 0.66 | 0.67 | 0.57 | 0.70 | 0.58 | 0.64 | 0.59 | 0.60 | 0.10 | ||
| Activision Blizzard Inc | 1.13 | 0.76 | 0.85 | 0.78 | 0.67 | 0.79 | 0.77 | 0.73 | 0.76 | 0.73 | 0.11 | ||
| Salesforce Com Inc | 0.93 | 0.79 | 0.89 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.95 | 0.71 | 0.87 | 0.80 | 0.70 | 0.11 | ||
| Cadence Design Systems Inc | 0.65 | 0.56 | 0.56 | 0.58 | 0.58 | 0.74 | 0.64 | 0.71 | 0.70 | 0.52 | 0.11 | ||
| Servicenow Inc | 1.00 | 0.77 | 0.79 | 0.88 | 0.86 | 1.04 | 0.70 | 0.93 | 0.74 | 0.72 | 0.11 | ||
| Intuit Inc | 0.89 | 0.69 | 0.83 | 0.92 | 0.90 | 1.08 | 0.71 | 0.97 | 0.77 | 0.69 | 0.12 | ||
| Citrix Systems Inc | 0.73 | 0.55 | 0.64 | 0.79 | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.60 | 0.82 | 0.66 | 0.57 | 0.11 | ||
| Electronic Arts Inc | 0.98 | 0.87 | 0.77 | 1.11 | 0.80 | 0.77 | 0.97 | 0.87 | 0.89 | 0.73 | 0.13 | ||
| Synopsys Inc | 0.81 | 0.62 | 0.72 | 0.92 | 0.79 | 0.80 | 1.01 | 0.66 | 0.75 | 0.63 | 0.13 | ||
| Ansys Inc | 0.83 | 0.71 | 0.73 | 1.01 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0.90 | 0.74 | 0.83 | 0.65 | 0.14 | ||
| Microsoft Corp | 1.39 | 1.14 | 1.05 | 1.24 | 1.13 | 1.03 | 1.27 | 1.01 | 1.16 | 1.08 | 0.18 | ||
| Zedge Inc | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
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 | 12 | 37% | 102909 | |
| 2 | BlackRock Inc. | Big Three | 12 | 30% | 1364742 | |
| 3 | State Street Corp | Big Three | 11 | 8% | 93751 | |
| 4 | Price T Rowe Associates Inc /MD/ | Asset manager | 11 | 6% | 80255 | |
| 5 | FMR Llc*Fil LTD | Asset manager | 11 | 5% | 315066 | |
| 6 | 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 | 7 | 3% | 732812 | |
| 7 | Massachusetts Financial Services Co /MA/ | Asset manager | 10 | 2% | 912938 | |
| 8 | Geode Capital Management, LLC | Asset manager | 12 | 1% | 1214717 | |
| 9 | Northern Trust Corp | Asset manager | 12 | 0.7% | 73124 | |
| 10 | Royce & Associates LP | Asset manager | 11 | 0.5% | 38777 | |
| 11 | Ameriprise Financial Inc | Asset manager | 11 | 0.5% | 820027 | |
| 12 | Bank of New York Mellon Corp | Asset manager | 11 | 0.5% | 1629943 | |
| 13 | Invesco LTD. | Asset manager | 11 | 0.5% | 914208 | |
| 14 | UBS Asset Management Americas Inc*Ubs Group AG | Asset manager | 12 | 0.4% | 1610520 | |
| 15 | Norges Bank | Asset manager | 11 | 0.4% | 1374170 | |
| 16 | Nuveen Asset Management, LLC | Asset manager | 11 | 0.3% | 1521019 | |
| 17 | Morgan Stanley | Asset manager | 12 | 0.3% | 895421 | |
| 18 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | Asset manager | 11 | 0.3% | 19617 | |
| 19 | Alliancebernstein L.P. | Asset manager | 11 | 0.3% | 1109448 | |
| 20 | Legal & General Group PLC | Asset manager | 11 | 0.2% | 764068 | |
| 21 | Bank of America Corp /DE/ | Asset manager | 11 | 0.2% | 70858 | |
| 22 | Pictet Asset Management LTD | Asset manager | 11 | 0.2% | 1291274 | |
| 23 | Wells Fargo & Company/Mn | Asset manager | 12 | 0.2% | 72971 | |
| 24 | Janus Henderson Group PLC | Asset manager | 11 | 0.1% | 1274173 | |
| 25 | Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | Asset manager | 11 | 0.1% | 884546 |
The companies, 2020 Q4
| Company | Reported owners | Reported ownership | SEC CIK | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Corp SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 3771 | 70.52% | 789019 | |
| Salesforce Com Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 1858 | 83.55% | 1108524 | |
| Activision Blizzard Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 · outlier | 1204 | 88.02% | 718877 | |
| Intuit Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 1201 | 90.69% | 896878 | |
| Servicenow Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 1166 | 89.04% | 1373715 | |
| Electronic Arts Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 933 | 92.25% | 712515 | |
| Ansys Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 731 | 92.43% | 1013462 | |
| Cadence Design Systems Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 688 | 92.01% | 813672 | |
| Citrix Systems Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 687 | 97.04% | 877890 | |
| Synopsys Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 674 | 88.58% | 883241 | |
| Nortonlifelock Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 | 522 | 91.64% | 849399 | |
| Zedge Inc SIC 7372 · S&P 500 · dual class | 43 | 46.31% | 1667313 |
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