Most acquisitive companies
Ranked by the number of subsidiaries on record for each company, sourced from Wikidata corporate-structure data. A count of subsidiaries is a record of ownership structure, not a claim about acquisition strategy or recency.
| # | Company | Subsidiaries on record | Industry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warner Music Group | 57 | media |
| 2 | Microsoft | 56 | technology, manufacturing |
| 3 | Genesee & Wyoming | 41 | — |
| 4 | Google LLC | 38 | technology, professional services |
| 5 | Amazon | 36 | retail |
| 6 | General Motors | 34 | transportation |
| 7 | United Nations | 25 | — |
| 8 | American Honda Power Equipment Division | 23 | manufacturing, transportation |
| 9 | AOL | 23 | technology, media |
| 10 | Nestlé USA - Beverages Division | 23 | food and beverage |
| 11 | AT&T | 22 | telecom |
| 12 | General Electric | 22 | finance, energy, transportation |
| 13 | Berkshire Hathaway | 21 | finance |
| 14 | Continental AG | 21 | manufacturing, transportation |
| 15 | Kaiser Permanente | 21 | healthcare |
| 16 | IBM | 20 | technology, professional services |
| 17 | Marriott International | 20 | healthcare |
| 18 | Pfizer | 20 | healthcare |
| 19 | Walmart | 20 | retail |
| 20 | CRRC Sifang America | 19 | manufacturing |
| 21 | Watco | 19 | energy |
| 22 | Ciba Vision | 18 | healthcare, manufacturing |
| 23 | Johnson & Johnson | 18 | technology, healthcare |
| 24 | Sony BMG | 18 | — |
| 25 | The Art Institutes | 18 | — |
| 26 | HP | 17 | technology |
| 27 | The Coca-Cola Company | 17 | food and beverage, consumer goods |
| 28 | Cisco Systems | 16 | telecom |
| 29 | DC Comics | 16 | media |
| 30 | DuPont | 16 | manufacturing |
| 31 | Ford | 16 | transportation |
| 32 | IAC | 16 | technology, media |
| 33 | Liberty Global | 15 | — |
| 34 | Netflix, Inc. | 15 | media |
| 35 | Nintendo | 15 | media |
| 36 | Nintendo of America | 15 | media |
| 37 | PepsiCo | 15 | food and beverage, consumer goods |
| 38 | Intermountain Healthcare | 14 | healthcare |
| 39 | Mondelez International | 14 | food and beverage |
| 40 | AGCO | 13 | manufacturing |
| 41 | Backflip Studios | 13 | — |
| 42 | Boeing | 13 | real estate, aerospace defense |
| 43 | Cloudflare | 13 | technology, media |
| 44 | Expedia Group | 13 | — |
| 45 | General Dynamics | 13 | aerospace defense |
| 46 | Hasbro | 13 | — |
| 47 | Hitachi Capital America Corp. | 13 | technology, energy |
| 48 | Hitachi, Ltd. | 13 | technology, energy |
| 49 | Medtronic | 13 | technology, healthcare |
| 50 | Pioneer Railcorp | 13 | transportation |