Market MedalsEvery company, and its story
What each company does, what its price is betting on, the medal it earns - and the other side of that medal. 33 companies so far, free to read.
ASR Nederland
From an office worker's company pension to a storm-damaged roof or a crashed car, this Dutch insurer covers both the decades-long and the everyday.
Bluescope Steel
It runs a steelworks south of Sydney and sells painted COLORBOND steel for Australian roofs; in America, it designs steel-framed warehouses and factories.
Cenovus Energy
A Canadian oil producer that pulls heavy crude from the oil sands, then turns much of it into fuel at its own US refineries in Lima, Toledo and Wood River.
CES Energy Solutions
Its chemicals keep going into oil wells long after the drilling stops, treating the oil and water that flow out so wax and scale cannot clog the pipes.
Dell Technologies
Best known for the laptops on office desks, it has become one of the main suppliers of the computers that power artificial intelligence.
Eurobank
Mostly a lender to Greek households and companies, it also advises businesses, helps them raise money and owns property on the side.
Everpure
Makes the storage systems companies keep their data on, and is now pitching the biggest cloud operators to swap their spinning hard disks for its flash.
FirstRand
Two banks under one roof: an everyday one for South African households and small firms, and an investment bank lending to big companies and projects.
Galliford Try
Burned once by badly priced building jobs, this UK road, water and public-works contractor now picks its bids carefully and works mostly through long-running panels.
IMAX
Moviegoers who pay extra for its giant premium screens are watching a system installed in someone else's cinema, and it keeps a cut of each ticket.
Jabil
Customers bring the idea and keep the brand; it brings factories, parts and testing, from medical devices to the racks inside AI data centres.
Kier
A British contractor building the roads, railways, schools, prisons, hospitals and defence sites that government pays for, along with pipes and treatment works for water companies.
Lumentum
A maker of laser chips for AI data centres that has also built a switch able to reroute light without first turning it into electricity.
McDonald's
Burgers, fries and drinks across counters and drive-thrus, much of it served by franchisees who pay for the name, the system and often the building.
Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries
Crude oil goes into its Corinth refinery and comes out as diesel, jet fuel and petrol, mostly shipped abroad, while its own stations serve Greek drivers.
National Bank of Greece
Besides mortgages and business loans, this Greek bank looks after savers who are moving their money out of deposit accounts and into mutual funds.
Ningbo Deye Technology
In countries where blackouts are routine, households and shops are turning from diesel generators to this Ningbo factory's solar inverters and home battery packs.
Nvidia
Its AI chips are so sought after that SpaceX is reportedly lining up banks and investors purely to raise the money to buy them.
Oracle
Long known for software that stores big organisations' records, it now builds data centres renting computing power for artificial intelligence, with OpenAI its anchor customer.
Permian Resources
Sinks wells into the Delaware Basin, oil country straddling the Texas and New Mexico line, to bring up oil and the gas that travels with it.
Petroleo Brasileiro
Draws oil from far beneath the seabed off Brazil, where reservoirs hide under a thick layer of salt, and turns it into fuel for the country.
Piraeus Bank
Where many Greek families and businesses keep their savings and take their loans, and a bank now setting out to sell them insurance over the same counter.
PORR
Builds the roads, railways, tunnels and bridges that governments pay for across Austria, Germany and Poland, including Germany's push to mend its ageing bridges.
Rolls-Royce
Airlines that buy its engines for long-haul jets usually sign up for decades of maintenance, paying for every hour those engines spend in the air.
Safaricom
Kenya's mobile phone network, whose M-PESA service lets people send money, pay shops, save and borrow straight from their phones.
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance
When a Korean is hurt, falls ill, crashes a car or sees a shop damaged, the claim often lands with the country's biggest insurer outside life cover.
Sandisk
Its very large, power-saving flash drives store data for AI training, and in some data centres they are taking the place of hard disks.
Service Stream
A contractor keeping other people's infrastructure working, from broadband and mobile networks to water pipes, gas and power lines, and state government roads.
Shennan Circuit
AI data centres need boards with far more layers and tighter tolerances than ordinary ones, and few suppliers can make them; this company is one.
Targa Resources
It separates propane and butane from raw West Texas gas, and for some of that work it is paid in a share of the liquids themselves.
Toyoda Gosei
Shut the door of a Toyota and the rubber seal pressing around it is the kind of part this supplier makes, along with the airbag inside.
Unipol Assicurazioni
Besides insuring Italian cars and buildings, it runs UniSalute, which sells medical cover to workers through their employers' welfare schemes.
Weichai Power
This Chinese truck-engine maker also controls a German group whose forklifts and automated systems move goods through European and American warehouses.
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