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Kroger (KR)
Kroger (KR) was founded in 1883 and is the second largest food retailer after Walmart with over $120 billion in annual sales. The company operates almost 2,800 supermarkets, of which more than 2,200 have pharmacies and nearly 1,500 have fuel centers. Kroger's grocery stores are located in 35 states and serve more than 9 million shoppers per day. The company’s stores operate under the brand names Kroger, Harris Teeter, Fred Meyer, Mariano’s, Pick ‘n Save, Metro Market, Pay Less, Smith’s, Owen’s, Baker’s, Fry’s, and others. Over 25% of Kroger's supermarket sales are generated by private label corporate brands, and approximately 44% of its private label grocery brands are manufactured at the company’s 37 food production plants. This vertical [...]
ConocoPhillips (COP)
Founded in 1917, ConocoPhillips (COP) is the world's largest independent exploration and production oil company and is nearly twice as large as its nearest rival by production. The company explores for, produces, transports, and markets crude oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), natural gas liquids, and bitumen in 17 countries around the world. In 2017, the company averaged nearly 1.4 million barrels per day of oil equivalent production broken down as follows: Oil: 50% of 2017 production Natural gas: 38% of 2017 production Natural gas liquids: 7% of 2017 production Bitumen (viscous mix of hydrocarbons used for road surfaces and roofing): 5% of 2017 production The firm has proven reserves of about 5 billion barrels of oil equivalent [...]
Honeywell (HON)
Founded in 1920, Honeywell International (HON) is a diversified industrial giant operating in about 70 countries. The company invents and commercializes technologies that address some of the world’s most critical challenges around energy, safety, security, productivity, and urbanization. Honeywell operates through four segments: Aerospace (38% of revenue, 41% of profits): products are used on virtually every commercial and defense aircraft platform and in 100M+ vehicles worldwide and include aircraft propulsion, cockpit systems, satellite communications, and vehicle turbochargers. About a third of this business is dedicated to providing spare parts, repair, overhaul, and aftermarket maintenance services under long-term contracts. Home and Building Technologies (23% of revenue, 21% of profits):products, software, solutions, and technologies that help homeowners, commercial building owners, and [...]
BP (BP)
Founded in 1889 and based in London, British Petroleum (BP) is one of the largest integrated oil and gas companies in the world with sales in excess of $240 billion in 2017. The company operates in over 70 countries and has proven oil & gas reserves of 18.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent (about 20 years' worth of current production). BP has three business segments: upstream oil & gas production, downstream (refining, lubricants, fuels, and petrochemicals), and its 19.75% stake in Rosneft, the Russian oil giant. Upstream (39% of 2017 pretax profit): BP's activities in oil and natural gas exploration, field development, and production (2.5 million barrels per day of oil equivalent production, excluding Rosneft). This segment is very [...]