Founded in 2003, the company designs, develops, manufactures, and markets high-performance, technologically advanced electric cars and solar energy generation and energy storage products. Tesla sells more than five fully electric cars, among others, the Model S sedan and the Model X SUV, and the Model 3 sedan, which is among the world's top-selling electric cars. The fuel-efficient, fully electric vehicles recharge their lithium-ion batteries from an outlet. Tesla's Autopilot self-driving technology hardware has been available on all Tesla models since late 2016. US customers generate more than half of Tesla's sales. CEO Elon Musk cofounded PayPal and also runs SpaceX.
Incyte is focused on developing and selling drugs that inhibit specific enzymes associated with cancer and other diseases. The company's lead program is its JAK (Janus associated kinase) inhibitor program. Its first commercial product, Jakafi, is approved for treatment of polycythemia vera and myelofibrosis (two rare blood cancers) and graft-versus-host-disease in the US; partner Novartis markets the drug internationally. Another inhibitor drug, Iclusig, is marketed for certain forms of leukemia in Europe. Incyte has a number of product candidates in research and clinical development stages, partially through partnerships with other drugmakers, for various cancers, inflammatory ailments, and other conditions.
The message from LivePerson is that messaging is the effective way to connect with customers. The company's messaging apps and other software tools help companies provide information and service to customers and provide information about customers to companies. Primarily serving retailers and other companies with intensive customer interactions, LivePerson's software enhances communications through multiple channels, including messaging apps, text-based chat, e-mail, and customer self-service tools. LivePerson's LiveEngage product allows companies to communicate with customes via mobile, social media, and messaging for e-commerce and service. Customers in the US make up about two-thirds of sales. In late 2014, LivePerson, in its biggest deal, acquired Contact At Once for $65 million.
Amazon.com began as Earth's biggest bookstore, but has become Earth's biggest everything store. Its website still offers millions of books, as well as other media, home furnishings, clothing, pet supplies, office products, and hundreds of other product categories (with items often ordered and delivered the same day). The company is also the dominant cloud services provider (through Amazon Web Services, or AWS), an influential entertainment company through its video streaming operations, a force to be reckoned with in grocery with its ownership of natural foods chain Whole Foods, and a leader in digital personal assistant devices with Alexa and its Echo product line.
Ask Siri to name the most successful company in the world and it might respond: Apple. And it's not just out of familial pride. Apple consistently ranks highly in profit, revenue, market capitalization, and consumer cachet and it was the first reach a trillion dollar market cap. The iPhone, in its 12th year, has been the company's golden goose, generating tens of billions in revenue and profit. Other Apple products and services include Mac computers and iPad tablets as well as the App Store, Apple Music, the Apple Watch, and other wearable devices. Apple has entered entertainment with the Apple TV+ streaming service. The company has inked alliances with corporations to deepen its penetration of the enterprise market. About 60% of Apple's revenue comes from outside the Americas.
SAP SE's software forms a company's nerve center. Its enterprise resource planning software integrates back-office functions such as analytics, accounting, distribution and human resources, and comes in on-premises and cloud-linked forms. While the sale and servicing of its legacy on-premises offering brings in the majority of the company's revenue, SAP is going all-in on cloud computing and software-as-a-service with its flagship application suite S/4HANA as an alternative to its legacy SAP Business Suite. Besides enterprise software, SAP Concur provides expenses management and SAP Fieldglass provides external workforce management. The company serves more than 440,000 customers in upwards of 30 industries across 180 countries.
Keeping employees fed and clothed is a mark of this company. ARAMARK is one of the leading contract foodservice providers in the world and a high-ranking uniform supplier in the US. The company offers corporate dining services and operates concessions at sports arenas and other entertainment venues, while its ARAMARK Refreshment Services unit is a leading provider of vending and beverage services. The firm also provides facilities management services. Through ARAMARK Uniform and Career Apparel, the company supplies uniforms for healthcare, public safety, and technology workers. US customers generate about three-quarters of the company's revenue.
With Wix.com, you don't need to be a computer whiz to have a cool website. The company offers an affordable web development platform for small business owners and entrepreneurs to create professional-quality websites. Its drag-and-drop editing tool features templates, graphics, image galleries, and fonts, while its App Market offer more than 140 different apps, such as social plug-ins, online marketing and CRM tools, contact forms, and e-commerce capabilities. Altogether Wix.com counts 33 million registered users in about 190 countries (about 700,000 of those users pay about $30 a month for a premium subscription).
Oracle predicts the future of computing is in the cloud. The enterprise software company offers a range of cloud-based applications and platforms as well as hardware and services to help companies improve their processes. Oracle's applications center around enterprise resource planning, data management, collaboration, application development, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. In recent years, Oracle has aggressively expanded through acquisitions that have helped build its cloud offerings. The company's mainstay product has been Oracle Database, one the most popular corporate database offerings. More than half its revenue comes from international customers.
NetApp makes hardware and software for storing, managing, accessing, and analyzing data. Its products extend customers' IT infrastructure to the cloud environments of Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, and Microsoft. NetApp's Data Fabric platform is designed to simplify and automate data for companies working in multiple cloud environments. The company's products are gathered under its cloud data services, cloud infrastructure, and storage systems and software businesses. NetApp's customers are in the energy, financial services, government, health care, life sciences, manufacturing, IT, and other sectors. US customers generate about half of the company's sales.
Checkpoint Systems wants to keep shoplifters in check. The company makes electronic article surveillance systems (EAS), radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and electronic security devices (using electromagnetic technology), such as intrusion alarms, digital video recorders, and electronic access control systems used by retailers that have included
Elbit Systems makes fighter jets feistier and soldiers' eyes sharper by supplying and upgrading defense electronics for airborne, space, land, and naval platforms, including fixed wing and helicopter support. Elbit's contracts include work on the F-15, F-16, F-18, Bradley A-3 fighting vehicle, and Israeli Merkava tank. Products include advanced weapons, helmet-mounted vision systems, cockpit management systems, unmanned airborne vehicles, communication systems, electronic warfare, and electro-optic systems. The company obtains some funding for research and development projects from the Government of Israel Office of the Chief Scientist. The US accounts for more than 30% of sales.
Intel Corp. is the brains of the operation. One the biggest computer chip companies, Intel controls roughly 90% of the market for microprocessors that act as the brains of desktop, notebook, and server computers. It has dominated the PC chip market from the early x86 processors to Pentiums to today's Core technology. Intel also makes chips for smartphones and tablets as well as embedded semiconductors for the industrial, medical, and automotive markets. The company develops its chips and makes most of them itself in one of the industry's biggest manufacturing systems. While PC chips account for most sales, Intel has shifted focus and resources to chips for the data centers that power cloud computing.
KLA Corp. (formerly KLA-Tencor) is one of the world's largest makers of process control equipment for the semiconductor, related nanoelectronics, and other technology industries. It makes yield management systems that monitor and analyze materials during the fabrication process, inspecting reticles (which make circuit patterns), and measuring microscopic layers. KLA has long dominated the market for equipment that inspects semiconductor photomasks and reticles. Customers in international markets account for more than 75% of the company's revenue. KLA acquired Orbotech for about $3.2 billion in 2019.
Bank Leumi le-Israel looms large as one of Israel's largest financial institutions. The company, whose name translates as National Bank of Israel, offers retail banking (for consumers and small businesses), commercial banking (middle-market businesses), corporate banking (large companies), and private banking (wealthy clients) through deposits, mortgages and other loans, credit cards, trust services, and investments. It has about 235 branches in Israel and more than 80 locations (including branches, agencies, and representative offices) in some 20 countries, including the US. Subsidiary Leumi Partners provides corporate investment banking services and makes direct investments in nonbanking businesses.
QUALCOMM is a leading designer and supplier of computer chips that mobile phone and wireless carriers depend on to get signals straight. The company pioneered the commercialization of the code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology used in digital wireless communications equipment and satellite ground stations mainly in North America. It generates most of its sales through the development and marketing of semiconductor chips such as its Snapdragon line and system software based on CDMA and other technologies. Its biggest customers have been suppliers to mobile phone makers Samsung and Apple.
If there's a way to communicate, there's a good chance AT&T Inc. provides it. The company offers wireless, wireline, satellite, WiFi, IP network, Virtual Private Network, and fiber optic cable services. It is one of the biggest wireline and wireless providers in the US with more than 174 million subscribers. It offers digital TV, voice, and internet service through its U-verse brand and satellite Pay-TV through DIRECTV. AT&T acquired Time Warner Inc. in 2018 after winning a court challenge by the US government. The deal added Time Warner's content such as HBO and CNN to AT&T's distribution capabilities. The US supplies more than 90% of revenue.
Keysight Technologies provides electronic measurement instruments—oscilloscopes, meters, and network analyzers—and design, test, and measurement software used to make electronics equipment. It also offers instrument productivity and application services and instrument calibration and repair, as well as consulting services throughout the product life cycle. Keysight has more than 32,000 customers and large, worldwide install base with accounts primarily in the communications, networking, and electronics industries. The company was spun off from testing equipment maker Agilent Technologies in 2014 (originally part of Hewlett-Packard).
Microsoft is one of the world's leading technology companies with products that include the Windows operating system, Office productivity applications, and Azure cloud services. LinkedIn, its business-oriented social network, is used by millions to make connections. Outside the office, Microsoft's Xbox gaming system is second only to Sony's PlayStation. Microsoft's customers range from consumers and small businesses to the world's biggest companies and government agencies. Geographically, Microsoft's revenue is evenly split between the US and the other countries. Microsoft founded in 1975
Amdocs helps bring telecom companies and their customers together. The company is a leading supplier of customer experience software and services for business support systems (BSS) and operational support systems (OSS), used by telecommunications providers to manage delivery of voice, data, and wireless services. Its applications help automate customer relationship management (CRM), sales, and billing operations. Amdocs also develops publishing software for creating print and online directories. In addition, the company offers outsourced customer service and data center services. Amdocs gets more than 70% of sales from customers in North America.
Cisco Systems is leading maker of the network gear -- routers, switches, and servers as well as software -- that moves information around the internet and corporate networks. The company, which has dominated the market for internet protocol-based networking equipment, also makes security devices, internet conferencing systems and other networking equipment for businesses and government agencies. Software that controls networks has become an increasing focus for Cisco, which also provides consulting services. Most sales come from customers in the Americas. Cisco's primary customers are large enterprises and telecommunications service providers, but it also sells products designed for small businesses.
VMware develops software used to create and manage virtual machines -- computer functions spread across multiple systems. Companies use its cloud-based and on-premise applications to more efficiently integrate and manage server, storage, and networking functions, which reduces their IT costs. VMware also offers software maintenance and support, training, consulting services, and hosted services. The company has marketing relationships with top computer hardware vendors, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, and Cisco Systems. VMware has strong geographic distribution, with international customers accounting for more than half of its sales. Dell Technologies holds a controlling stake in VMware through its acquisition of EMC.
Just about every office -- from home to big business -- has two basic items: personal systems and printers. That's pretty much the business of HP Inc., one of two companies created from the breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2015. HP makes a full line of computing devices from desktops and laptops for commercial and consumer use to tablets and point-of-sale systems. Its printers include large format commercial printers and inkjet and laser printers as well as 3D printers. And don't forget printer supplies such as ink cartridges. HP is a leading PC maker. The company generates over a third of its revenue in the US.
As the largest telecom operator in Israel, Bezeq provides wired and wireless telephone and other communications services to consumer and business subscribers throughout the country; it has some 2.5 million landlines and about the same number or wireless accounts. Mobile services are delivered through cellular phone subsidiary Pelephone Communications. With about 1 million Internet users, the company is also Israel's top broadband ISP. Additionally, Bezeq serves about half a million satellite TV viewers with its YES brand through subsidiary DBS Satellite. The company's business services include call center outsourcing which is handled by Bezeq Online.
DSP Group loves the sound of its own voice ... chips. The company's name derives from the digital signal processors (DSPs) and related speech compression software it develops that convert speech and other audio data into digital values for cordless telephones, wireless phones, answering devices, PCs, and other consumer electronics. Top customers include landline makers
Make your next e-mail Incredimail. The company develops software that lets users customize e-mail using animation, 3D effects, handwritten signatures, and sound effects. While its flagship IncrediMail Xe is free, the company also offers IncrediMail Premium, which adds features such as custom graphics, a voice message recorder, and customer support. The premium product also removes the advertising banners and promotional links used in its free product to promote the brand. IncrediMail Letter Creator supplements both free and premium products with letter backgrounds and e-cards.
NIKE, named for the Greek goddess of victory, is the world's #1 shoe and apparel company. It designs, develops, and sells a variety of products to help in playing basketball and soccer (football), as well as in running, men's and women's training, and other action sports. Under its namesake brand, NIKE also markets sports-inspired products for children and various competitive and recreational activities; it also sells sportswear under the Converse and Hurley brands. The company, which generates some 60% of sales outside the US, sells through more than 1,100-owned retail stores worldwide and an e-commerce site, and to thousands of retail accounts, independent distributors, and licensees.