Records — what a single ranking cannot show

Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026

A ranking sorts one measure in one year. These three tables ask what a ranking cannot: how long a company has been growing, how far it sits from its own best year, and which companies earn the same revenue from completely different machines.

Longest unbroken growth

Companies whose revenue has risen every single year up to the latest filed year, without one down year in between. Only companies above $1.0B in revenue, and only runs of 3 years or more.

A run marked “at least” reaches the start of the fifteen-year window: it began earlier than the history we hold, so its true length is unknown.

Still below their own peak

Companies whose best revenue year is at least 3 years behind them and which are still at 80% of it or less. The peak had to be above $5.0B, so this is about large companies that shrank, not small ones that wobbled.

A ranking still shows these companies high up, because a ranking only shows this year. Where the figure sits inside the company's own history is a different question.

Same revenue, different machine

Pairs from different sectors whose revenue differs by less than 0.5%, but where one balance sheet is at least 5 times the other. The revenue is a coincidence; the gap between the balance sheets is the business model.

The revenue shown is the larger of the two; the difference between them is under the threshold above. Each company appears at most once, and the pairs with the widest gap are chosen first. There is no comparison page for these pairs: comparison pages are built for companies in the same sector, and these are by definition not.