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    "name": "Nestlé",
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    "ticker": "NESN",
    "exchange": "six",
    "country": "switzerland",
    "sector": "Consumer Staples",
    "industry": "Food & Beverage",
    "market_cap_usd_bn": 251.9,
    "currency": "CHF",
    "website": "https://www.nestle.com",
    "founded": 1866,
    "description": "World's largest food company: coffee, nutrition, pet care and water, sold in most countries in the world.",
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      "shares_as_of": "2026-06-30",
      "shares_source": "Nestle Half-Year Report of the Nestle Group 2026, Note 8.1 Share capital",
      "shares_source_url": "https://www.nestle.com/sites/default/files/2026-07/half-year-report-2026-en.pdf)",
      "price": 78.62,
      "price_currency": "CHF",
      "price_date": "2026-08-28",
      "price_symbol": "NESN.SW",
      "price_venue": "Swiss",
      "fx": "ECB euro reference rates, 2026-08-28",
      "adr_ratio": 1,
      "caveat": "Treasury shares carried at CHF 319m at 30 June 2026 (CHF 388m at 31 Dec 2025) - a few million shares, not deducted from the figure above. Share count fell in 2025: the AGM of 16 April 2025 approved cancellation of 43,480,000 shares (share capital CHF 262m -> CHF 258m) after the CHF 20bn buyback completed 23 Dec 2024; no buyback is currently reducing the count, so 2,576,520,000 should be stable."
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    "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"
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