What do you call a company that owns another company?
Sarah Martinez
Updated on January 06, 2026
In the corporate world, a subsidiary is a company that belongs to another company, which is usually referred to as the parent company or the holding company. In cases where a subsidiary is 100% owned by another firm, the subsidiary is referred to as a wholly owned subsidiary.
What is the largest holding company?
Rankings by Total Assets
| Rank | Profile | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | JPMorgan Chase & Co | Financial Holding Company |
| 2. | Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation | Financial Holding Company |
| 3. | Bank of America | Financial Holding Company |
| 4. | HSBC Holdings | Financial Holding Company |
Why is it called a sister company?
Sister companies are subsidiaries that are related because they’re owned by the same parent company.
What are top 10 holdings?
The fund’s top 10 holdings as of October 2020, which accounted for 53.11% of all holdings in the fund, were:
- UnitedHealth 7.76%
- Home Depot, Inc. 6.62%
- salesforce.com, inc. 5.95%
- Amgen Inc. 5.38%
- McDonald’s Corporation 5.27%
- Microsoft Corporation 5.00%
- Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 4.80%
- Visa Inc. 4.59%
Who are the largest IT companies in the world?
NEC : NEC is a Japanese multinational IT company. The company provides information technology (IT) and network solutions. NEC Corporation is one of the world’s leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions. Apple : Apple Inc is an American multinational company.
Are there any companies that are employee owned?
Robert W. Baird & Co. is another well-established company in the world of finance that is an employee-owned organization. Baird invests in lower to middle-market companies that operate in a wide range of industries, although they tend to focus primarily on the healthcare, industrial solutions, and technology sectors.
Who is the owner of a wholly owned subsidiary?
A subsidiary is an independent company that is more than 50% owned by another firm. The owner is usually referred to as the parent company or holding company.
Are there 147 companies that own everything in the world?
This article is more than 8 years old. There may be 147 companies in the world that own everything, as colleague Bruce Upbin points out and they are dominated by investment companies as Eric Savitz rightly points out . But it’s not you and I who really control those companies, even though much of our money is in them.
