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Raytheon's Boldest Expansion Was Actually a Retreat to Its Core
RTX (Raytheon)
Chevron Never Left Its Lane. It Just Kept Widening the Road.
Chevron
NextEra Looks Like a Conglomerate. It's Actually the Most Single-Minded Company in Power.
NextEra Energy
Dow Spent 120 Years Expanding. The Endgame Was Splitting Into Three.
Dow
BASF Walked Into the World's Most Crowded Chemical Market — Alone, and Spent €8.7 Billion to Do It Its Own Way.
BASF
J&J Spent 130 Years Becoming a Household Name. Then It Spun the Household Out.
Johnson & Johnson
Pfizer Spent Two Decades Buying Its Way Out of Its Core. Then It Bought Its Way Back.
Pfizer
Novartis Didn't Expand Beyond Its Core. It Spent 27 Years Walking Back to It.
Novartis
UnitedHealth Stopped Being an Insurer. It Became the Road Healthcare Money Drives On.
UnitedHealth
Comcast Spent a Decade Buying the Content Its Pipes Carried. Now It's Giving the Pipes Their Walking Papers.
Comcast / NBCUniversal
Richemont Kept Trying to Escape Jewellery. It Kept Getting Dragged Back.
Richemont (Cartier)
United Didn't Out-Strategize Its Rivals Abroad. It Inherited Two Accidents and Held the Door.
United Airlines
Lululemon Spent $500M to Learn Its Moat Doesn't Fit on a Wall
Lululemon
Nike Blamed China's Politics for Its China Problem. The Numbers Tell on It.
Nike
BlackRock Stopped Selling Funds. It Started Selling the Plumbing.
BlackRock
Ford Didn't Split Into Two Companies. It Turned the Lights On in One Room.
Ford
Vodafone Bought the World at the Top of the Market. Then It Spent a Decade Selling It Back.
Vodafone
PMI Didn't Buy Swedish Match to Diversify. It Bought a Door Back into America.
Philip Morris International
Honda Didn't Plan the Jets and Robots. It Followed the Engine.
Honda
Volkswagen's Brand Stable Looks Like a Master Plan. It Was a Series of Lucky Brawls.
Volkswagen
Europe Slapped BYD With Tariffs. BYD's Sales Went Up Anyway.
BYD
Tesla's Energy Business Looks Like a Juggernaut. A $756 Million Subsidy Says It's Younger Than That.
Tesla
Ferrari Built a Four-Door, Four-Seat Car. The One Word It Won't Say Tells You Everything.
Ferrari
JPMorgan Didn't Build the Everything-Bank. It Was Handed the Pieces in a Fire.
JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Bought Three Fintechs to Defend Itself. Only the Quiet Ones Worked.
JPMorgan Chase
The Lego Movie Didn't Save Lego. A Plastic Brick Did.
Lego
Chevron Paid $60 Billion to Sit at a Table Its Rival Controls.
Chevron
Exxon Bet $64.5 Billion That Shale Is the Future. Then It Forgot to Vet the CEO It Was Buying.
ExxonMobil
NextEra Calls Itself the World's Biggest in Clean Energy. The Florida Utility Is What Pays for It.
NextEra Energy
AB InBev Borrowed More Money Than Anyone Ever Had. The Hangover Story Misreads the Bill.
Anheuser-Busch InBev