Where owners are listed

How this is computed

• The data holds 2,125 ticker rows for 1,933 companies, written with 131 different exchange labels because the labels were recorded in different batches (for example NASDAQ, Nasdaq and NASDAQ GS; LSE and LON; Euronext Paris and EPA; XETRA and Xetra). Each label is mapped through an explicit table to one exchange and the exchange's country: 2,125 rows map to 103 exchanges and 0 rows are unmapped (the test requires fewer than 4).
• A few labels need a reading, all fixed in the table: TSE is Tokyo (every company carrying it is headquartered in Japan; Toronto is TSX); NSE is the National Stock Exchange of India, except for Kenyan companies, where it is read as Nairobi; labels shared by several countries' exchanges (CSE, MSE, DSE, BSE, ZSE, VSE) are resolved by the company's headquarters country. Frankfurt, FWB and Xetra are treated as one Deutsche Börse venue, the OTC labels as one US over-the-counter venue, and each Euronext market is kept separate because each belongs to a different country.
• Two tickers on the same exchange count as one listing. A company is counted once per exchange and once per exchange country it is listed in.
• Home or abroad compares the company's headquarters country with the exchange's country. Home only means every recorded listing is in the headquarters country; home and abroad means at least one home listing plus at least one foreign one; abroad only means no recorded listing in the headquarters country. Hong Kong is its own country here, so a mainland China company on HKEX counts as listed abroad.
• Brand-owning companies are those with at least one brand under their control today, directly or through a controlled subsidiary. Brands are counted by the exchange(s) on which their ultimate controlling owner is listed; brands with no controlling owner on record are left out of the denominator.
• Shares are shown only where the denominator is at least 5; smaller cells show counts.

Companies by exchange

Listed companies per exchange, out of 1,933 companies with a mapped listing. The 40 largest of 103 exchanges are shown; a company listed on two exchanges appears in both rows, so the rows add to more than 1,933.

Companies by exchange country

Listed companies by the country of the exchange, one count per company per country, so a company on two exchanges in one country counts once. 91 countries have at least one listing; the 30 largest are shown.

Home or abroad

Of 1,933 listed companies, 1,600 are listed only at home (82.8%), 106 at home and abroad (5.5%) and 227 only abroad (11.7%). The table gives the same split by headquarters country, for countries with at least 5 listed companies; shares are of that country's listed companies.

Countries with fewer than 5 listed companies, shown as counts of abroad-only out of listed: Hungary 1 of 4, Jamaica 4 of 4, Monaco 4 of 4, Peru 2 of 4, Cyprus 2 of 3, Kazakhstan 1 of 2, Panama 1 of 2, Uruguay 2 of 2, Faroe Islands 1 of 1, Isle of Man 1 of 1, Jersey 1 of 1 and Cayman Islands 1 of 1; the rest of the 49 such countries are listed only at home.

Where abroad-only companies list

Pairs of headquarters country and exchange country for the 227 abroad-only companies (a company listed in two foreign countries appears in both rows). The 25 most common pairs of 71; counts, not shares.

Cross-listings

162 of 1,933 listed companies have recorded tickers on two or more different exchanges (8.4%); 119 of them list in more than one country. Because dual listings with a single recorded ticker count as one, these are the cross-listings on record, not all that exist.

Exchanges with the most brand-owning companies

1,922 of the 2,989 companies that control at least one brand are listed (64.3%). The 15 exchanges where most of them are listed, with the share of each exchange's listed companies that own brands.

Brands by listing venue of their ultimate owner

Of 11,970 brands with a recorded controlling owner, 8,586 (71.7%) have an ultimate owner with a recorded listing and 3,384 (28.3%) do not (private, family or state-held owners, or no ticker recorded). A brand whose owner is listed on two exchanges is counted under both, so the shares below add to more than the listed total. Shares are of 11,970 brands.

What this does not show

• It is a record of tickers collected for companies on Brandtree, not a census of listed companies or of exchanges. It does not show a company's primary listing, market value, free float or trading volume.
• Dual listings where only one ticker is recorded count as one; depositary receipts and over-the-counter lines may be missing. Cross-listing and foreign-listing figures are therefore minimums.
• Headquarters country is the country recorded for the company; many groups are incorporated or listed in a different country from where they operate, which this page does not separate.
• An unlisted owner may still be controlled by a listed one; only the ultimate owner's own listing is used for brands, and brands with no recorded controlling owner are excluded.
• Exchange country labels reflect the mapping table described above; the page makes no claim about why companies choose a venue.