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    "currency": "GBP",
    "website": "https://www.shell.com",
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      "shares_source": "SEC 20-F cover page (2025-12-31)",
      "shares_source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1306965/000162828026017024/R1.htm",
      "price": 3344.5,
      "price_currency": "GBp",
      "price_date": "2026-08-28",
      "price_symbol": "SHEL.L",
      "price_venue": "LSE",
      "fx": "ECB euro reference rates, 2026-08-28",
      "adr_ratio": 2,
      "caveat": "No treasury shares. Fast-moving count: Shell buys back and cancels continuously - 5,607,066,071 (30 Apr) -> 5,586,155,889 (29 May) -> 5,570,928,127 (30 Jun) -> 5,562,341,925 (31 Jul 2026), i.e. roughly 0.2-0.4% per month, so a stale count over-states the cap. The next monthly TVR (as at 31 Aug 2026) lands around 1 September. LSE quotes SHEL.L in pence (GBp) - divide by 100 before multiplying."
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      "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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          "usd": 18119000000,
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          "end": "2025-12-31"
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          "start": null,
          "end": "2025-12-31"
        },
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          "tag": "ifrs-full:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense",
          "start": "2025-01-01",
          "end": "2025-12-31"
        }
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    "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/shell",
    "graph": "https://finance.foundation/api/v1/graph/companies/shell",
    "sources": "https://finance.foundation/api/v1/sources"
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