Stocks by Category

The companies selling business applications, developer and infrastructure tools, security, design software, and games, and how each one charges for access.

Chip designers, the foundries that build their parts, the equipment and inspection makers that fill a fab, and the packaging and test houses at the end.

Search, social, and ad platforms that sell attention at auction, alongside subscription products and the companies renting out computing capacity by the hour.

Consultancies, systems integrators, and outsourcing firms that sell people's time, including the contractors whose customer is a government department.

Laptops, phones, servers, hard drives, and flash storage: physical products priced by units shipped, where the cost of the parts inside sets the margin.

Switches, routers, optical modules, fiber, and base stations, sold as capital equipment to carriers, cloud operators, and governments on build cycles.

Connectors, circuit boards, capacitors, power supplies, and data center cooling, plus the contract manufacturers that assemble other companies' products.

Studios, streaming services, cable operators, concert promoters, sports, cinemas, publishers, and music catalogs, and the three ways each of them gets paid.

Companies selling patented medicines, generics, and animal health products, plus clinical-stage developers with a pipeline and no revenue yet.

Biologic drug developers funding trials out of raised capital, alongside the suppliers of reagents, proteins, and instruments those laboratories consume.

Implants, surgical instruments, imaging systems, and diagnostics sold to hospitals, where the disposables used in every procedure carry much of the revenue.

Drug distributors, hospital operators, diagnostic labs, dialysis providers, and the contract organizations that run clinical trials for drug developers.

Universal banks, regional lenders, and custody institutions that earn on the spread between what their loans pay and what their deposits cost.

Property and casualty carriers, health and life insurers, reinsurers, and brokers, split by who actually carries the risk that claims come in high.

Traditional fund managers, private capital firms, and advisory boutiques, paid through fees on assets, shares of investment profit, and per-deal mandates.

Exchanges, brokerages, investment banks, rating agencies, and credit bureaus, paid per transaction rather than on the value of what anyone is holding.

Card networks, payment processors, online marketplaces, and delivery platforms: businesses that take a slice of a transaction between two other parties.

Digital banks, lending platforms, crypto exchanges, and bitcoin miners, and why fee income and balance-sheet risk behave so differently here.

Mortgage originators, card issuers, and installment lenders: how the gap between rates charged, funding costs, and credit losses sets what they earn.

Warehouse clubs, grocers, dollar stores, home improvement chains, and online sellers, and why a thin margin per item makes inventory decisions decisive.

Franchisors that collect a share of somebody else's sales, and operators that carry the food, labor, and rent behind every check they serve.

Brands, apparel retailers, and off-price chains, and why goods ordered a season ahead decide whether the margin survives to the register.

Household staples, beauty, appliances, and toys: products sold through retailers that stock a competing store brand on the very same shelf.

Soft drinks, beer, spirits, and tobacco, and how concentrate makers, bottlers, distributors, and excise taxes divide up the price on the shelf.

Producers, refiners, royalty owners, and integrated majors in one group, and why a cheaper barrel is lost revenue for one and a lower cost for another.

Drillers, pressure pumpers, and equipment makers who sell into other companies' drilling budgets, priced by the day, by the job, or by the machine.

Pipelines, gathering plants, gas distribution utilities, and export terminals: assets that take years to build and then earn fees on reserved capacity.

Mines, steel mills, and quarries under one label, and how ore, scrap, and crushed stone give three very different cost structures and time horizons.

Gold and silver producers alongside royalty and streaming companies, and why ore grade, energy costs, and jurisdiction separate miners selling identical metal.

Commodity plants, specialty formulations, and industrial gases: three ways of earning from chemistry, where one company's input cost is another's selling price.

Machinery, fertilizer, seed, and grain processing, and how a planting calendar nobody controls sets the timing for every business that sells into it.

Fuel cells, batteries, storage systems, small reactors, and solar hardware, grouped by the equipment a company builds rather than by what the equipment is for.

Makers of engines, pumps, tools, bearings, and construction equipment sold into other companies' budgets, plus the parts and service that follow the sale.

Prime contractors, engine and component suppliers, and space hardware makers selling to governments and airlines on order books that run years ahead.

Makers of analytical, test, and measurement instruments for labs, factories, and chip plants, plus the consumables and service contracts that keep them running.

Passenger carriers whose seats expire at departure and whose costs are mostly committed once the schedule is set, with fuel and labor the largest of them.

Line-haul freight carriers that own their track, plus the locomotive and rail equipment makers that sell into their capital budgets.

Parcel networks, truckload and less-than-truckload carriers, ocean tankers, and the brokers who sell capacity they do not own and keep the spread.

Wholesalers that stock parts from many manufacturers and resell them to contractors, maintenance crews, and repair shops that need them the same day.

Makers of corrugated boxes, cartons, metal cans, plastic containers, and labels, whose volumes follow the number of units their customers ship.

Real estate investment trusts own property or mortgages and must pay out most of their income. How lease length, tenant type, and structure differ.

Homebuilders sell houses under contract months before they close. How land options, buyer incentives, and local permitting shape the business.

Building products makers sell into codes and specifications, split between new construction and replacement demand, with cement priced regionally.

Construction and engineering firms live on contract terms: who absorbs an overrun, how backlog converts to revenue, and where the labor comes from.

Regulated utilities charge what a state commission allows on the capital they invest. How rate base, cost recovery, and merchant power differ.

Telecom carriers run on licensed spectrum and monthly subscriber fees against a network paid for up front. How wholesale and satellite operators differ.

Hotels, casinos, cruise lines, and booking sites earn from fees, fares, gaming licenses, and commissions. What each one actually charges for.

Equipment rental, waste routes, staffing, monitoring, and schools grouped together. The agreement behind the charge is what tells them apart.

Automakers, franchised dealers, suppliers, and parts retailers in one group. How franchise law, lease residuals, and program awards divide the money.

Packaged food makers, foodservice distributors, and protein processors. Who sets the price, who passes cost through, and who earns a spread.