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  "data": {
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    "ticker": "HSBA",
    "exchange": "lse",
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    "sector": "Financials",
    "industry": "Banking",
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    "currency": "GBP",
    "website": "https://www.hsbc.com",
    "founded": 1865,
    "description": "Europe's largest bank by assets, with its profit center in Asia; trade finance and wealth.",
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    },
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    "market_cap_as_of": "2026-08-28",
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      "method": "shares_outstanding x price",
      "shares_outstanding": 17175239862,
      "shares_basis": "outstanding",
      "shares_as_of": "2025-12-31",
      "shares_source": "SEC 20-F cover page (2025-12-31)",
      "shares_source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089113/000108911326000010/R1.htm",
      "price": 1528.4,
      "price_currency": "GBp",
      "price_date": "2026-08-28",
      "price_symbol": "HSBA.L",
      "price_venue": "LSE",
      "fx": "ECB euro reference rates, 2026-08-28",
      "adr_ratio": 5,
      "caveat": "No treasury shares - repurchased shares are cancelled, and hsbc republishes the running total with almost every daily buyback announcement, so this figure is only two days old. A buyback announced 5 August 2026 is live (23,559,014 shares bought for ~US$485.3m by 28 Aug), so the count falls a few million shares per week."
    },
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      "period": "2025-12-31",
      "form": "20-F",
      "filed": "2026-02-26",
      "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001089113&type=20-F&dateb=&owner=include&count=10",
      "reporting_currency": "USD",
      "fx": null,
      "note": "Every metric comes from the same annual filing; a metric absent from that filing is absent here rather than taken from another year. Each carries the XBRL tag it was read from.",
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        "net_income": {
          "value": 23131000000,
          "usd": 23131000000,
          "tag": "ifrs-full:ProfitLoss",
          "start": "2025-01-01",
          "end": "2025-12-31"
        },
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          "tag": "ifrs-full:Assets",
          "start": null,
          "end": "2025-12-31"
        }
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    }
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    "market_cap_usd_bn": "Computed, not copied: shares outstanding from the issuer's own filing x the closing price on its home listing. The inputs, their dates and the filing URL are in the `market_cap` object; null means we hold no share count we can source. `market_cap_seed_usd_bn` is the superseded hand-entered value, kept only so the two can be told apart.",
    "founded": "Company's own corporate history / registration record.",
    "sector": "Finance Foundation classification, not GICS or ICB (both licensed).",
    "identifiers": {
      "lei": "GLEIF (CC0) — free to redistribute",
      "isin": "Issuer's own primary listing document; ISO 6166 check digit validated. For a company carried via its US ADR this is the ADR ISIN — see us_listing_type",
      "figi": "OpenFIGI (open standard) — free to redistribute"
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "html": "https://finance.foundation/companies/hsbc",
    "graph": "https://finance.foundation/api/v1/graph/companies/hsbc",
    "sources": "https://finance.foundation/api/v1/sources"
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