Looking for data about company ownership network
Looking for data about company ownership network
I’m looking for a data archive of corporation ownership networks. For example, Alphabet owns Google, … and some metadata like when they are created/owned by Alphabet if possible. I was made aware of OpenCorporates but it doesn’t seem to have such data as far as I tried.
Apologies in advance if this is not an appropriate content for the community. I figured digital archivists may be aware of the existence of such archive. I couldn’t find a specific lemmy community solely for asking about data suggestions. If there’s a community better suited for this post, please let me know.
Thanks!
WikiData is a database-oriented version of Wikipedia intended for categorising relations between concepts.
For example, Google (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95) is "owned by" XXVI Holdings (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100292691) since 2017.
XXVI Holdings similarly shows that it is owned by Alphabet Inc (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20800404), which is owned by a list of people and entities with various different voting rights.
There is also the "Parent Organisation" relation (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P749) which links Google to Alphabet directly.
These should all be computer-readable.
Thanks, this is a great idea! With a quick look, this seems possible for big enough organizations, but might be spotty for others. I’ll take a closer look. Would be nice if there’s linkage to other database, such as the other commenter’s suggestion of littlesis.
thanks! I was actually looking at it at some point, though I’m not sure how updated this is for lesser known corps.
I was looking at IAC and Matchgroup (aka owner of Tinder), they’re supposed to be separated but in littlesis it says IAC owns 85% stake. I’m also looking into products they own, eg Tinder, which is not available on littlesis. It’d be interesting if somehow this can Wikidata can be linked.
I would also be really interested in a dataset like this. Institutional investors for public companies are sometimes listed in the SEC 10k form, but I have yet to fully learn the structure of these documents. Someone intelligent could probably make a web crawler to scrape institutional and single person ownership of companies from SEC filings. Ideally with a proper dataset like this you could map out who owns each company, and who owns each of the owning companies etc. which would be really interesting information.
I don’t currently have adequate understanding of different SEC FORMS, and although I can use python I have no experience writing web crawlers at the moment.
I would think this would be a kind of question for an OSINT community. It would be worth reposting the question there.
thanks for the suggestion!
Which osint community should I post to? Is it the lemmy world one?done
I do not currently have adequate knowledge of different SEC forms for this task