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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. Owner types follow the forms each investor files with the SEC: 13F, Forms 3/4/5, 13D or 13G, in that order of precedence (an investor that files both 13F and Forms 3/4/5, such as Carl Icahn, counts as a 13F filer). Big Three is Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street.
- Big Three
- 13F filers
- 13G filers
- 13D filers
- Forms 3/4/5 filers
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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