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Top 100 Compañías Que Prosperaron en La Pandemia-2 PDF
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6. Facebook
has also been riding a boom in
demand for data centre chips
transfers — such as socially-
distanced withdrawals from the
$55.1bn
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from big internet companies, as Bank of Mum and Dad — and Netflix added twice as many
SECTOR: TECHNOLOGY increased usage for paying for
AI becomes a more important subscribers as it had forecast
HQ: MENLO PARK, US component of their services and goods and services that might in the first three months of
overall digital activity jumps. otherwise have been paid for with the year, as the largest paid
Key stat: 39 per cent — the rise in Richard Waters cash. Dave Lee
advertising impressions at Facebook streaming service entertained
in the first quarter of the year. global lockdown audiences
with shows such as Tiger King,
$32.8bn sales have jumped in the crisis. testing actemra, an arthritis drug, mostly at an early stage in
US authorities allowed the against Covid-19, both on its own applying the technology across
MARKET CAP ADDED company’s megastores to remain and in combination with Gilead’s their organisations. Richard
open throughout the pandemic remdesivir. Donato Paolo Mancini Waters
China’s ecommerce giant because much of the equipment in London
experienced stagnating sales at they stock, such as water heaters,
its core Tmall and Taobao online
marketplaces in the first quarter
refrigerators and electrical and 29. Regeneron
under the strain of undermanned
plumbing gear, make them
lifelines in home emergencies.
27. Prosus Pharmaceuticals
courier partners. However, Americans have also been SECTOR: INTERNET
other business units such as upgrading their living space, SECTOR: PHARMACEUTICALS
HQ: AMSTERDAM,
cloud computing and bricks and buying more furniture, decor and HQ: NEW YORK, US
mortar grocery helped it achieve NETHERLANDS
lighting, while undertaking more
22 per cent year-on-year sales DIY projects, boosting demand for Key stat: Shares have risen more
growth. Now, with couriers back Key stat: $8bn — the cash and
tools and materials. Alistair Gray debt available for Naspers’ than one-third since February.
at their posts and its millions
international investment vehicle
of merchants back at their
keyboards, the Hangzhou-based to make deals. $20.1bn
company is expected to fully 25. ASML MARKET CAP ADDED
reap the rewards of coronavirus-
induced caution. Ryan McMorrow SECTOR: TECHNOLOGY
HQ: VELDHOVEN,
$24.6bn Regeneron is working on
MARKET CAP ADDED repurposing an existing drug
NETHERLANDS and developing a new antibody
23. Sea Group Key stat: ASML’s R&D expenses
While it has long been the good
fortune of the South African
cocktail for Covid-19. Studies
using Kevzara, an anti-
SECTOR: TECHNOLOGY for the first quarter of 2020 were internet group Naspers to own inflammatory, to target the
HQ: SINGAPORE €544m, a year-on- year increase 31 per cent of China’s Tencent, overactive immune response of
of 15 per cent exposure to the Fortnite-to- some patients
Key stat: Sea’s self-developed WeChat giant paid off again produced disappointing early
this year. It has led to a surge of
global game Free Fire hit a
record of more than 80m daily $27.3bn one-third in the share price of
Prosus, the company’s European
results but the trial is being
changed to focus only on patients
active users in the first quarter MARKET CAP ADDED with the most severe disease.
investment vehicle that is waving Hannah Kuchler
of 2020. the cheque book for deals in
The Dutch giant’s dominance in
photolithography for chipmaking the post-coronavirus world.
$31.8bn has helped it weather Covid-19
disruptions. Its advances in the
Prosus, which houses the Tencent
stake and other assets to make 30. Alibaba Health
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use of extreme ultraviolet light
means ASML’s machines can
up Europe’s biggest consumer
internet group, already has globe-
Information
South-east Asia’s biggest listed
etch a greater number of circuits spanning businesses in sectors SECTOR: HEALTHCARE
technology company benefited
per chip — key for advances in that could benefit if the pandemic HQ: HONG KONG, CHINA
from drawing the bulk of its
the “internet of things”, AI and does inspire a greater digital
revenue from two coronavirus-
proof sectors: gaming and 5G communications. Siddharth shift, such as food delivery and Key stat: Shares are up 129 per
ecommerce. Demand for its Venkataramakrishnan in online education. Joseph Cotterill cent so far in 2020.
hit game Free Fire surged in London in Johannesburg
the March quarter while a
consumer shift to digital channels $20.1bn
boosted sales for its lossmaking
ecommerce business in south-
26. Roche 28. ServiceNow MARKET CAP ADDED
east Asia and Taiwan. Mercedes SECTOR: PHARMACEUTICALS SECTOR: CLOUD SOFTWARE A Hong Kong-listed company
Ruehl in Singapore. HQ: BASEL, SWITZERLAND HQ: SANTA CLARA, US controlled by Jack Ma, it
focuses on pharmaceutical As the pioneer of cloud-based Dexcom makes a type of blood
ecommerce and operates China’s
drug product identification,
software applications for
businesses, Salesforce could be 36. Moderna sugar monitor that continuously
checks patients’ glucose levels
authentication and tracking lifted by the greater urgency SECTOR: PHARMACEUTICALS — a product that may have
system. The company benefited for companies to digitise their HQ: CAMBRIDGE, US pushed the stock higher as the
from providing internet medical operations. The crisis has dented coronavirus crisis has increased
services during the Covid-19 its growth in the short term, but Key stat: 30,000 participants demand for healthcare solutions
emergency. Thomas Hale in investors are betting that “digital for diabetics, who are an at-risk
Shanghai transformation” will become
are expected to enrol in the
phase-three trial of its Covid-19 category for Covid-19. Donato
an even bigger imperative for Paolo Mancini
companies across the economy, vaccine candidate.
$16.3bn
the first quarter compared with
last year, despite slowdowns at Tower $14.6bn
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such as Lyft and Uber. Miles HQ: BOSTON, US
The pioneer of managing Kruppa in San Francisco In early June, Keyence shares
electronic contracts digitally Key stat: The company built 993 hit an all-time high and the
has enjoyed a doubling of its communication towers in the automation specialist became
share price as shelter-in-place
orders during the pandemic
44. Square first quarter, more than three-
quarters of them in Asia and
Japan’s second most valuable
company after Toyota. Foreign
have accelerated a shift towards SECTOR: PAYMENTS Africa. investors have been especially
contactless, automated solutions. HQ: SAN FRANCISCO, US drawn to its sky-high profit
The group has 661,000 paying margins, and the pure-play it
customers and is optimistic it
can charge many more of its
Key stat: Square distributed
$800m to small businesses as
$15.2bn offers on robotics and automation
— themes many expect to
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free users — numbered in the part of the US government’s dominate globally in coming
hundreds of millions. Patrick stimulus package. Mobile phone masts are years, but which have been
McGee surpassing glitzy office buildings accelerated by Covid-19 and the
pressure it has put on factories.
$15.7bn as some of the most coveted
assets in real estate. So, while Leo Lewis in Tokyo
42. Vertex MARKET CAP ADDED jittery investors have been
dumping shares of office building
Pharmaceuticals Jack Dorsey’s Square was
seen as a Covid-19 loser when
developers and shopping mall 49. Atlassian
owners, they have piled into
SECTOR: PHARMACEUTICALS small businesses started to American Tower, the world’s SECTOR: CLOUD SOFTWARE
HQ: BOSTON, US close, but investors perked up most valuable listed real estate HQ: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
when it seemed the company’s investment trust. Mark Vandevelde
Key stat: The biotech reported integrated payments platform in New York Key stat: Year-on-year revenue
35.5 per cent sales growth in would be a key part of a faster- increased 36 per cent in the first
2019. than-expected recovery, with quarter.
contactless payments and
47. Prologis
$16.3bn
ecommerce upgrades. But
a deal with Moderna, the first SECTOR: GAMBLING Wuliangye Yibin, a Chinese liquor
US company to get a potential
coronavirus vaccine into human
HQ: DUBLIN, IRELAND maker, has been a magnet for 70. SF Holding
investors betting on a recovery in
trials, on the scale-up of a discretionary spending in Asia’s SECTOR: DELIVERY LOGISTICS
potential Covid-19 inoculation. Key stat: Even with sports HQ: SHENZHEN, CHINA
largest economy. Shares of the
The two companies have been fixtures cancelled worldwide, distiller have gained a quarter
shortlisted by President Donald Flutter increased gambling since January as the company Key stat: SF Holding posted 39.6
Trump in the US’s project to revenues 10 per cent year on year defied an industry-wide sales per cent revenue growth in the
expedite a vaccine, which has in the three months to May 17. slump with revenue rising 15 per first quarter.
been dubbed Operation Warp cent in the first three months of
Speed.
Donato Paolo Mancini $11.5bn the year. Sun Yu
$11bn
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SF Holding runs China’s most important Chinese customer Key stat: Shares have risen more
reliable courier operation. Its
huge force of delivery workers
73. Wayfair keeps shopping in the aftermath than 50 per cent this year.
of the pandemic, this bodes well
and 58 cargo jets kept ferrying SECTOR: ECOMMERCE
goods during the worst of China’s
lockdown period — even as
HQ: BOSTON, US
for the luxury house’s ability to
bounce back. Leila Abboud in Paris $10.3bn
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its competitors struggled with Key stat: First-quarter net
manpower issues. Sales at the revenue rose 20 per cent year- Hansoh Pharmaceutical was
Shenzhen-listed company rose on-year. 76. Lowe’s listed in Hong Kong last year and
during the period, though profits develops innovative and first-
SECTOR: RETAIL
slipped.
Ryan McMorrow in Beijing $10.7bn HQ: MOORESVILLE, US to-market generics. It focuses
on psychotropic, oncology
MARKET CAP ADDED and diabetes drugs. Hansoh’s
Key stat: Lowe’s hired more than almonertinib received market
100,000 workers for the spring
71. ZTO Express The online homeware specialist’s
sales have surged as consumers season after a surge in demand.
approval in China for second-
line treatment for patients with
SECTOR: DELIVERY LOGISTICS have sought to upgrade their NSCLC (the most common type
HQ: SHANGHAI, CHINA living spaces under lockdown but
been unable to shop at bricks- $10.6bn of lung cancer) in March.
Xueqiao Wang
and-mortar stores. The stock is MARKET CAP ADDED
Key stat: The company expects
parcel volume to grow 31 to 35 near all-time highs, even after
per cent this year. advertising and other costs meant
the group lost $286m in the first
Paint, piping, lumber, drills and
fittings are among the many 79. Gilead Sciences
quarter. Alistair Gray products stocked by Lowe’s — and SECTOR: PHARMACEUTICALS
$10.9bn its sales have boomed. Americans
under lockdown have undertaken
HQ: FOSTER CITY, US
MARKET CAP ADDED more DIY projects and bought Key stat: 1.5m — the number of
74. Centene the necessary equipment from doses of remdesivir, the antiviral
ZTO Express runs the profitable the home improvement retailer, being used for Covid-19, that
SECTOR: FINANCIALS whose stores have been allowed
line-haul segment of delivery HQ: ST LOUIS, US Gilead gave away for free.
— leaving the costly business of to stay open throughout the
crisis.
ferrying packages the last mile to
customers’ doors to its partner
Key stat: 41 per cent — year-on-
year revenue jump.
Alistair Gray $10.3bn
firms. With ecommerce receiving MARKET CAP ADDED
a pandemic boost, investors are
betting one of China’s largest
delivery companies will be taken
$10.7bn 77. Spotify Gilead Sciences has been the
only branded drug approved
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along for the ride. SECTOR: MUSIC STREAMING for treating Covid-19 patients.
Ryan McMorrow HQ: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Remdesivir, originally developed
US health insurer Centene has for Ebola, is being used in
experienced a surge in profits
because of the coronavirus Key stat: 130m global hospitals in the US, UK and
72. Celltrion emergency. Many non-essential
procedures have been postponed
subscribers by the end of Q1, up
31 per cent from a year ago.
Japan. While trials are ongoing,
Anthony Fauci, a top doctor
SECTOR: HEALTHCARE advising the White House,
until business returns to praised the initial data as having
HQ:
KOREA
INCHEON, SOUTH normal, meaning insurers have
to disperse less in payments $10.3bn a “clear-cut, significant, positive
effect”. Hannah Kuchler
to healthcare providers. But MARKET CAP ADDED
Key stat: 15-20 minutes, the premiums have remained the
time Celltrion says it will take its same, fattening margins. Donato Music listening habits changed
Covid-19 self-testing diagnostic Paolo Mancini as people sheltered at home. 80. Okta
kit to reveal results. While fewer people commuted
to work, users at home flocked SECTOR: TECHNOLOGY
to meditation and wellness HQ: SAN FRANCISCO, US
$10.8bn 75. Hermès podcasts, instrumental music
Key stat: 28 per cent year-on-
and chilled-out tunes to help
MARKET CAP ADDED SECTOR: LUXURY manage stress, according to year rise in customers in the first
HQ: PARIS, FRANCE Spotify. The company benefited quarter.
South Korean pharmaceutical
group Celltrion has promoted from a business based largely on
its development of an antiviral
treatment to fight Covid-19 while
Key stat: $2.7m of sales were
made in a single day at a Hermès
subscriptions, helping shield it
from the fallout in advertising. $10.2bn
store in Guangzhou when it Anna Nicolaou MARKET CAP ADDED
producing its own diagnostics reopened in mid-April after a
kits. Shares are up 60 per cent Covid- 19 lockdown. This software upstart helps
this year. Investors are upbeat companies manage and secure
about its acquisition of a unit 78. Hansoh user authentication into cloud
carved off by Japanese rival
Takeda, and a touted merger of
$10.6bn Pharmaceutical services, and grew its customer
base to 8,400 this year. Sales were
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three Celltrion affiliates.
Edward White
It was a record haul for a
Group up 46 per cent year-on-year in
the first quarter, but it still made
boutique in China, according to SECTOR: PHARMACEUTICALS a net loss of $57.7m in the period.
the French group. If the all- HQ: LIANYUNGANG, CHINA Miles Kruppa
China Tourism Group Duty Free vehicle battery maker by market
81. Barrick Gold reported a loss in the first quarter 86. RingCentral share. Its stock is back to near a
for the first time in a decade. But 10-year high, and up more than
SECTOR: MINING SECTOR: TECHNOLOGY 110 per cent since a three-year
investors still expect it to benefit
HQ: TORONTO, CANADA from demand from rich Chinese HQ: BELMONT, US low in March. Edward White in
shoppers who have been unable Wellington
Key stat: Gold is up 13 per cent to buy luxury goods abroad Key stat: Annual recurring
since the start of the year, its because of coronavirus. Sun Yu in revenues from enterprise
highest level since 2012. customers rose 59 per cent year
Beijing
on year in the first quarter. 89. Reliance
$10.1bn Industries
MARKET CAP ADDED 84. Muyuan Foods $9.4bn SECTOR: INDUSTRIAL
SECTOR: FARMING MARKET CAP ADDED CONGLOMERATE
“When you buy physical gold you HQ: MUMBAI, INDIA
don’t get a yield, but if you buy HQ: NEIXIANG, CHINA
The virtual telephone app has
a well-run sustainably run gold announced ambitions to compete Key stat: Reliance has raised
mining company you should get a Key stat: Pig farmer Qin with Zoom, rolling out a video
Yinglin’s personal wealth has $15bn from investors since April.
yield,” says Barrick’s fast-talking offering. Investors have been
chief executive Mark Bristow, grown by about $6bn since the encouraged by RingCentral’s
who has cranked up dividend
payments over the past six
start of coronavirus. growing adoption at large
enterprise customers, which
$9bn
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months on the back of the rising
gold price. Neil Hume in London $9.4bn makes up more than 30 per cent
of the business. Miles Kruppa While Reliance’s core energy
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businesses have struggled during
By the start of 2020, soaring the pandemic, foreign investors
82. Chongqing pork prices due to an outbreak of 87. Lululemon flocked to its digital arm Jio. After
Facebook bought a 10 per cent
Zhifei Biological African swine fever had already
made Muyuan Foods founder SECTOR: RETAIL stake for $5.7bn in April, Jio sold
Products Qin Yinglin the world’s richest
farmer. The onset of coronavirus
HQ: VANCOUVER, CANADA stakes to everyone from Silver
Lake and KKR to Mubadala.
SECTOR: PHARMACEUTICALS in China, which started in late Key stat: Ecommerce sales Owned by Asia’s richest man
HQ: JIANGBEI, CHINA January, pushed food prices jumped 68 per cent in the three Mukesh Ambani, four-year-old
higher, adding another $6bn in months to May. Jio has almost 400m telecom
Key stat: Shares are up 134 per personal wealth to Mr Qin’s pig subscribers and is branching out
into ecommerce. Benjamin Parkin
cent in 12 months. farming fortune. Between January
2019 and March 2020, Muyuan $9.3bn in Mumbai
shares rose about 340 per cent.
$10bn
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Don Weinland in Beiing
MARKET CAP ADDED Working from home led to a near- 90. Offcn
Chongqing Zhifei Biological
85. TAL Education
70 per cent jump in online sales
at Lululemon in the first quarter Education
Products is listed in Shenzhen,
focusing on vaccine R&D Group
as its expensive yoga pants and
“athleisure” gear replaced formal
Technology
and sales. Zhifei is the local business attire. But overall sales SECTOR: EDUCATION
distribution partner of Merck SECTOR: EDUCATION tumbled heavily from the closure TECHNOLOGY
to sell its approved vaccines HQ: BEIJING, CHINA of its stores and it has warned HQ: BEIJING, CHINA
in China including Gardasil that it is not expecting a return to
9. A subsidiary of Zhifei was Key stat: 4.6m students were earnings growth until the fourth Key stat: Offcn founder Li
reportedly co-developing with signed up in February, a 57 per quarter. Alistair Gray Yongxin is China’s richest edtech
an institute under the Chinese cent year-on-year rise. entrepreneur.
Academy of Sciences to develop a
vaccine against Covid-19. Xueqiao
Wang $9.4bn 88. LG Chem $9bn
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Key stat: For every $100 move Unilever reported zero first- SECTOR: SOCIAL MEDIA Pet owners have been stocking
in the gold price, Newmont’s free quarter sales growth as the HQ: LOS ANGELES, US up on food, treats and other
cash flow changes by $400m. pandemic began: higher demand supplies under lockdown, a
for products such as Domestos Key stat: Snap’s first-quarter boon for online specialist Chewy,
bleach was cancelled out by revenues jumped 44 per cent to which floated last year. A surge
$8.9bn a slump in areas such as food
service and ice cream. But
$462m. in orders pushed net sales in the
three months to May up 46 per
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investors later took heart when cent from a year ago to $1.6bn.
Rising gold prices meant Unilever said it would seek to
consolidate into a single UK
$8.6bn Alistair Gray
Newmont, the world’s biggest MARKET CAP ADDED
gold producer, increased its company, abandoning a dual
first-quarter dividend by 79 per
cent and repurchased $300m of
British/Dutch structure. This
should make acquisitions and
The parent of camera and
messaging app Snapchat
99. GSX Techedu
shares. A huge reserve base — disposals simpler. experienced increased demand SECTOR: EDUCATION
boosted by the purchase of rival Judith Evans as home-bound young users TECHNOLOGY
Goldcorp — leaves Colorado- spent more time on social media. HQ: BEIJING, CHINA
based Newmont well placed to But it faces challenges from
produce 6m-7m ounces of gold
a year until 2029, according to 94. AstraZeneca tightening ad spending during the
virus crisis, competing with the
Key stat: Revenues increased
382 per cent in the first quarter.
analysts. Neil Hume SECTOR: PHARMACEUTICALS Facebook-Google duopoly and
emergent rivals such as TikTok.
HQ: CAMBRIDGE, UK
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan $8.2bn
92. Just Eat Key stat: $1bn — the funding
secured to develop a vaccine from
MARKET CAP ADDED
Key stat: $7.3bn — the price Just AstraZeneca, which has its
Industry have risen 157 per cent on the
New York stock exchange. It has
Eat Takeaway will pay to buy US headquarters in the UK, has SECTOR: BIOPHARMACEUTICALS recently come under attack from
rival Grubhub. climbed to the top of the FTSE HQ: CHANGCHUN, CHINA short-sellers, including Muddy
100 index after securing a deal Waters. The company has denied
the allegations. Thomas Hale
$8.9bn to manufacture and distribute
a potential coronavirus vaccine
Key stat: Shares in the group are
up 140 per cent in 12 months.
MARKET CAP ADDED made by Oxford university.
Donato Paolo Mancini 100. Teladoc
Just Eat’s merger with rival
Takeaway.com, agreed in
$8.4bn Health
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December, created Europe’s
largest food delivery group at just 95. L’Oréal Shenzhen-listed Changchun High
SECTOR: TELEMEDICINE
HQ: NEW YORK, US
the right moment to capitalise on SECTOR: COSMETICS & New Technology Industry is
surging demand from restaurants based in northeastern China and
HQ: PARIS, FRANCE Key stat: Paid membership in
and diners for new food delivery invests in biological products,
options during lockdowns. Now the US rose from 27m to 43m in
Key stat: Online sales jumped 53 real estate and processed the first quarter.
Takeaway founder Jitse Groen is traditional Chinese medicine. The
looking to take a bite out of Uber per cent in the first quarter.
in the US, with its blockbuster
company mainly produces growth
hormone products. Its new nasal $8.2bn
bid for Grubhub. Tim Bradshaw
$8.7bn spray influenza vaccine was
approved in March, the first live
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attenuated flu vaccine in China. Teladoc, which offers online
93. Unilever The world’s biggest cosmetics Xueqiao Wang consultations with doctors, has
soared by 130 per cent since the
company’s sales have held up
SECTOR: CONSUMER GOODS well during the Covid-19 crisis, beginning of the year and posted
HQ: LONDON, UK AND firstquarter revenues up 41 per
ROTTERDAM,
thanks to its heavy investments
in online selling and marketing.
98. Chewy cent as people have sought to
NETHERLANDS It now earns 20 per cent of group SECTOR: ECOMMERCE avoid hospitals and doctors’
HQ: DANIA BEACH, US surgeries during lockdown.
sales from its own ecommerce
Key stat: €19.3bn: annual Hannah Murphy
sites or those of retailers, giving it
turnover of Unilever’s foods a real competitive advantage over Key stat: Chewy added 1.6m new