FTSE 100
37 companies
Glencore
Commodity Trading/Mining
One of the world's largest commodity trading and mining companies, founded in 1974 and headquartered in Switzerland. Glencore operates the opposite st...
Unilever
Consumer Goods & FMCG
Unilever generated €60.8 billion revenue in 2024 ($65.7B USD), up 1.9% with 4.2% underlying sales growth driven by 2.9% volume increases across Person...
Admiral Group
Insurance
Pools insurance risk like prairie dog colonies sharing alarm calls, distributed coverage spreads threat across the group so individuals suffer less wh...
Anglo American
Mining
BHP made three takeover bids for Anglo American in 2024, with the final £39 billion offer rejected in May. BHP walked away again in November 2025 afte...
Antofagasta
Mining
The Luksic family's copper specialist operates four Chilean mines producing 664,000 tonnes annually—a pure-play metabolic strategy betting that electr...
AstraZeneca
Pharmaceuticals
AstraZeneca delivered $54.07 billion revenue in 2024 (up 21%) while investing $13.58 billion in R&D—a 25.1% research intensity that signals r-selectio...
Auto Trader Group
Automotive & Technology
Auto Trader UK operates a digital watering hole where car buyers and sellers congregate—network effects keep both sides coming back like predators and...
Aviva
Insurance
Aviva achieved what most insurers announce but fail to deliver: portfolio transformation that actually moves the profit mix. Operating profit jumped 2...
BAE Systems
Aerospace & Defense
BAE Systems reported £28.3 billion sales in 2024, up 14% year-over-year, with operating profit exceeding £3 billion for the first time. The £77.8 bill...
Barclays
Banking
Barclays is a British multinational investment bank and financial services company with operations in retail banking, wealth management, corporate ban...
BP
Oil and Gas / Energy
BP is a case study in how organizational alarm systems fail catastrophically. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 workers, spilled 4.9 mill...
British American Tobacco
Tobacco
British American Tobacco's 2024 results reveal an organism in mid-metamorphosis: combustibles revenue down 5.2%, New Categories up 8.9%, with Velo nic...
BT Group
Telecommunications
BT Group is executing autophagy at infrastructure scale. Revenue dropped 2% to £20.4 billion in fiscal 2025, but adjusted EBITDA rose 1% to £8.2 billi...
Burberry
Luxury Fashion
British luxury peacock displaying heritage plumage—trench coats and check patterns signaling old-money taste. Brand dilution in 2000s triggered costly...
Compass Group
Food Services
Compass Group posted £42 billion annual revenue in 2024 with 10.6% organic growth globally and 10.5% in the US. This is not a restaurant business—it's...
Diageo
Alcoholic Beverages
Diageo's 2024-2025 struggles illuminate the limits of portfolio strategy when underlying demand contracts. The company owns Johnnie Walker, Guinness,...
Experian
Information Services
Experian evolved from credit bureau to data analytics powerhouse through network effects and preferential attachment. Revenue hit $7.5 billion in fisc...
Ferguson
Distribution
Ferguson operates the industrial economy's mycorrhizal network: 1,700+ locations connecting manufacturers to 35,000 contractors who need plumbing and...
GlaxoSmithKline
Pharmaceuticals
GSK's 2024 performance—7% revenue growth, 13% core profit growth, 71 medicines in clinical development—masks a deeper strategic challenge: vaccine sal...
HSBC
Banking
HSBC's 2024 restructuring into Eastern and Western divisions—effective January 2025—represents controlled speciation: splitting a global organism into...
JD Sports Fashion
Retail
JD Sports is a leading retailer of sports fashion and outdoor brands. The company operates over 3,000 stores globally, specializing in athletic footwe...
Legal & General
Insurance
Legal & General operates at the intersection of longevity risk and capital markets, executing portfolio optimization that most financial services firm...
Lloyds Banking
Banking
Lloyds Banking Group reported statutory profit of £4.5 billion in 2024, down 19% from 2023, but the decline masks strategic progress. The mortgage por...
LSEG
Financial Services
LSEG's 2024 results—$11.8B revenue, 9.1% EBITDA growth, 363.5p adjusted EPS up 12.2%—demonstrate what happens when a predator successfully digests its...
National Grid
Utilities
National Grid submitted a £35 billion business plan to Ofgem for 2026-2031, the largest transmission grid overhaul in generations. This is not increme...
NatWest
Banking
NatWest Group is executing financial metamorphosis: transitioning from government-owned rescue case to private-sector competitor. The UK Treasury's st...
Ocado Group
Retail & Technology
Ocado is a technology-focused online grocery retailer and solutions provider. The company operates automated warehouses using robotics and AI for effi...
Prudential
Insurance
Prudential reported £2.29 billion earnings in 2024, up 34% year-over-year, with new business profit of $3.07 million (11% growth at constant exchange...
Reckitt
Consumer Goods
Reckitt mastered corporate autophagy in 2024-2025, executing what most consumer goods companies talk about but rarely deliver: selective self-digestio...
RELX
Information Services
RELX reported £9.4 billion revenue in 2024, with 7% underlying growth and adjusted operating margin of 33.9%—the highest in its sector. First half 202...
Rio Tinto
Mining
Global mining corporation founded in 1873, demonstrating 150 years of survival through commodity price cycles. The company exemplifies counter-cyclica...
Rolls-Royce
Aerospace
British aerospace company that pioneered 'Power by the Hour' (PbH) - a revolutionary outcome-based service model representing organizational mutualism...
Shell plc
Energy
Shell navigates ecological succession from oil-age climax to energy transition pioneer—but shows symptoms of mature-stage blindness. The Anglo-Dutch e...
SSE
Utilities
SSE is building energy infrastructure through ecological succession: transforming fossil-fuel-dominated grids into renewable-powered networks. The com...
Standard Chartered Bank
Banking / Financial Services
British bank formed in 1969 from merger of Standard Bank of British South Africa and Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China. Exemplifies strate...
Tesco
Retail
Tesco posted £3.13 billion adjusted operating profit in 2024/25, up 10.6%, with UK market share hitting 28.5%—a 0.7% gain year-over-year. This is not...
Vodafone
Telecommunications
Vodafone completed its £16.5 billion merger with Three UK on May 31, 2025, creating VodafoneThree with 27 million customers—the UK's largest mobile op...