{"id":1761,"date":"2026-10-27T14:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:16:54","slug":"biggest-companies-on-british-isles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"Biggest companies on British Isles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rank<\/th>Company<\/th>Sector<\/th>Market Cap (\u00a3bn)<\/th>Dividend Yield<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1<\/strong><\/td>HSBC Holdings<\/td>Banking<\/td>\u00a3234.0 \u2013 \u00a3245.0<\/td>3.95% \u2013 4.11%<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/strong><\/td>Shell<\/td>Energy \/ Oil & Gas<\/td>\u00a3163.0 \u2013 \u00a3228.2<\/td>2.83% \u2013 3.96%<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/strong><\/td>AstraZeneca<\/td>Pharmaceuticals<\/td>\u00a3199.4 \u2013 \u00a3201.0<\/td>1.80% \u2013 1.88%<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/strong><\/td>Rio Tinto<\/td>Mining<\/td>\u00a3107.2 \u2013 \u00a3120.0<\/td>4.02% \u2013 5.58%<\/td><\/tr>
5<\/strong><\/td>Rolls-Royce Holdings<\/td>Aerospace & Defence<\/td>\u00a3102.2 \u2013 \u00a3115.0<\/td>0.68% \u2013 0.89%<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/strong><\/td>British American Tobacco<\/td>Tobacco<\/td>\u00a394.0 \u2013 \u00a397.2<\/td>5.43% \u2013 5.67%<\/td><\/tr>
7<\/strong><\/td>Unilever<\/td>Consumer Goods<\/td>\u00a393.0 \u2013 \u00a3106.1<\/td>3.15% \u2013 3.90%<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/strong><\/td>BP<\/td>Energy \/ Oil & Gas<\/td>\u00a376.0 \u2013 \u00a399.1<\/td>3.99% \u2013 5.11%<\/td><\/tr>
9<\/strong><\/td>GSK<\/td>Pharmaceuticals<\/td>\u00a372.0 \u2013 \u00a377.5<\/td>3.55% \u2013 3.56%<\/td><\/tr>
10<\/strong><\/td>Glencore<\/td>Mining & Commodities<\/td>\u00a363.1<\/td>2.37%<\/td><\/tr>
11<\/strong><\/td>Barclays<\/td>Banking<\/td>\u00a355.9 \u2013 \u00a368.0<\/td>1.73% \u2013 2.75%<\/td><\/tr>
12<\/strong><\/td>National Grid<\/td>Utilities<\/td>\u00a359.0 \u2013 \u00a361.5<\/td>3.97% \u2013 4.08%<\/td><\/tr>
13<\/strong><\/td>Lloyds Banking Group<\/td>Banking<\/td>\u00a358.7 \u2013 \u00a362.0<\/td>3.61% \u2013 3.91%<\/td><\/tr>
14<\/strong><\/td>BAE Systems<\/td>Aerospace & Defence<\/td>\u00a352.0 \u2013 \u00a360.3<\/td>1.88% \u2013 1.97%<\/td><\/tr>
15<\/strong><\/td>NatWest Group<\/td>Banking<\/td>\u00a351.0 \u2013 \u00a352.0<\/td>5.22% \u2013 5.43%<\/td><\/tr>
16<\/strong><\/td>London Stock Exchange Group<\/td>Financial Services<\/td>\u00a344.9<\/td>1.69%<\/td><\/tr>
17<\/strong><\/td>Anglo American<\/td>Mining<\/td>\u00a344.1<\/td>0.78%<\/td><\/tr>
18<\/strong><\/td>Standard Chartered<\/td>Banking<\/td>\u00a343.6 \u2013 \u00a345.0<\/td>2.22% \u2013 2.59%<\/td><\/tr>
19<\/strong><\/td>Compass Group<\/td>Consumer Services<\/td>\u00a343.5<\/td>2.01%<\/td><\/tr>
20<\/strong><\/td>Fresnillo<\/td>Precious Metals<\/td>\u00a340.3<\/td>4.81%<\/td><\/tr>
21<\/strong><\/td>Diageo<\/td>Beverages<\/td>\u00a339.5<\/td>2.11%<\/td><\/tr>
22<\/strong><\/td>Coca-Cola Europacific Partners<\/td>Beverages<\/td>\u00a336.7<\/td>2.07%<\/td><\/tr>
23<\/strong><\/td>Reckitt Benckiser Group<\/td>Consumer Goods<\/td>\u00a334.7<\/td>3.95%<\/td><\/tr>
24<\/strong><\/td>Haleon<\/td>Pharmaceuticals<\/td>\u00a333.4<\/td>1.92%<\/td><\/tr>
25<\/strong><\/td>Tesco<\/td>Retail<\/td>\u00a333.3<\/td>2.76%<\/td><\/tr>
26<\/strong><\/td>Antofagasta<\/td>Mining<\/td>\u00a331.3<\/td>1.84%<\/td><\/tr>
27<\/strong><\/td>SSE<\/td>Utilities<\/td>\u00a330.3<\/td>2.76%<\/td><\/tr>
28<\/strong><\/td>Vodafone<\/td>Telecommunications<\/td>\u00a327.4<\/td>3.27%<\/td><\/tr>
29<\/strong><\/td>Experian<\/td>Business Services<\/td>\u00a325.5<\/td>1.79%<\/td><\/tr>
30<\/strong><\/td>3i Group<\/td>Private Equity \/ Investment<\/td>\u00a324.2<\/td>3.56%<\/td><\/tr>
31<\/strong><\/td>Prudential<\/td>Life Insurance<\/td>\u00a321.9<\/td>2.34%<\/td><\/tr>
32<\/strong><\/td>Imperial Brands<\/td>Tobacco<\/td>\u00a321.7<\/td>5.70%<\/td><\/tr>
33<\/strong><\/td>Aviva<\/td>Insurance<\/td>\u00a321.5<\/td>5.62%<\/td><\/tr>
34<\/strong><\/td>BT Group<\/td>Telecommunications<\/td>\u00a321.1<\/td>3.94%<\/td><\/tr>
35<\/strong><\/td>InterContinental Hotels Group<\/td>Travel & Leisure<\/td>\u00a318.4<\/td>1.14%<\/td><\/tr>
36<\/strong><\/td>Endeavour Mining<\/td>Precious Metals<\/td>\u00a318.2<\/td>3.44%<\/td><\/tr>
37<\/strong><\/td>Next<\/td>Retail<\/td>\u00a318.1<\/td>1.84%<\/td><\/tr>
38<\/strong><\/td>International Consolidated Airlines (IAG)<\/td>Travel & Leisure<\/td>\u00a317.9<\/td>2.00%<\/td><\/tr>
39<\/strong><\/td>Coca-Cola HBC<\/td>Beverages<\/td>\u00a316.6<\/td>2.21%<\/td><\/tr>
40<\/strong><\/td>Legal & General Group<\/td>Financial Services \/ Insurance<\/td>\u00a316.3<\/td>7.28%<\/td><\/tr>
41<\/strong><\/td>Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust<\/td>Investment Trust<\/td>\u00a315.8<\/td>0.30%<\/td><\/tr>
42<\/strong><\/td>Associated British Foods<\/td>Food Producers \/ Retail<\/td>\u00a313.8<\/td>3.20%<\/td><\/tr>
43<\/strong><\/td>Halma<\/td>Electronic Equipment<\/td>\u00a312.6<\/td>0.75%<\/td><\/tr>
44<\/strong><\/td>Segro<\/td>Real Estate (REIT)<\/td>\u00a312.2<\/td>3.49%<\/td><\/tr>
45<\/strong><\/td>Admiral Group<\/td>Insurance<\/td>\u00a311.8<\/td>3.71%<\/td><\/tr>
46<\/strong><\/td>Informa<\/td>Media<\/td>\u00a311.4<\/td>2.70%<\/td><\/tr>
47<\/strong><\/td>United Utilities Group<\/td>Utilities<\/td>\u00a311.2<\/td>3.56%<\/td><\/tr>
48<\/strong><\/td>Sage Group<\/td>Software<\/td>\u00a310.5<\/td>1.94%<\/td><\/tr>
49<\/strong><\/td>Airtel Africa<\/td>Telecommunications<\/td>\u00a310.0<\/td>1.92%<\/td><\/tr>
50<\/strong><\/td>Severn Trent<\/td>Utilities<\/td>\u00a39.8<\/td>3.88%<\/td><\/tr>
51<\/strong><\/td>Diploma<\/td>Industrial Support<\/td>\u00a39.6<\/td>0.89%<\/td><\/tr>
52<\/strong><\/td>Smith & Nephew<\/td>Medical Equipment<\/td>\u00a39.5<\/td>2.62%<\/td><\/tr>
53<\/strong><\/td>Standard Life (Phoenix Group)<\/td>Financial Services<\/td>\u00a39.2<\/td>6.13%<\/td><\/tr>
54<\/strong><\/td>Intertek Group<\/td>Industrial Services<\/td>\u00a39.1<\/td>2.78%<\/td><\/tr>
55<\/strong><\/td>Bunzl<\/td>General Industrials<\/td>\u00a39.1<\/td>2.61%<\/td><\/tr>
56<\/strong><\/td>Marks & Spencer Group<\/td>Retail<\/td>\u00a38.7<\/td>1.00%<\/td><\/tr>
57<\/strong><\/td>Rentokil Initial<\/td>Business Services<\/td>\u00a38.6<\/td>2.81%<\/td><\/tr>
58<\/strong><\/td>Pearson<\/td>Media<\/td>\u00a38.3<\/td>1.87%<\/td><\/tr>
59<\/strong><\/td>J Sainsbury<\/td>Retail<\/td>\u00a37.8<\/td>3.88%<\/td><\/tr>
60<\/strong><\/td>M&G<\/td>Financial Services<\/td>\u00a37.6<\/td>6.51%<\/td><\/tr>
61<\/strong><\/td>Smiths Group<\/td>General Industrials<\/td>\u00a37.4<\/td>1.82%<\/td><\/tr>
62<\/strong><\/td>Centrica<\/td>Utilities<\/td>\u00a36.9<\/td>3.78%<\/td><\/tr>
63<\/strong><\/td>IMI<\/td>Industrial Engineering<\/td>\u00a36.8<\/td>1.23%<\/td><\/tr>
64<\/strong><\/td>Polar Capital Technology Trust<\/td>Investment Trust<\/td>\u00a36.8<\/td>0.00%<\/td><\/tr>
65<\/strong><\/td>Weir Group<\/td>Industrial Engineering<\/td>\u00a36.7<\/td>1.63%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rank Company Sector Market Cap (\u00a3bn) Dividend Yield 1 HSBC Holdings Banking \u00a3234.0 \u2013 \u00a3245.0 3.95% \u2013 4.11% 2 Shell Energy \/ Oil & Gas \u00a3163.0 \u2013 \u00a3228.2 2.83% \u2013 3.96% 3 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals \u00a3199.4 \u2013 \u00a3201.0 1.80% \u2013 1.88% … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}