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HSBC (HSBA)

Europe's largest bank by assets, with its profit center in Asia; trade finance and wealth.

Legal name
HSBC Holdings plc
Ticker
HSBA
Exchange
London Stock Exchange · MIC XLON
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Financials
Industry
Banking
Market cap ≈
$356.6bn — computed, not copied: 17.175bn shares × 1528.4 GBp close on 2026-08-28
Reporting currency
GBP
Founded
1865
Website
www.hsbc.com
LEI
MLU0ZO3ML4LN2LL2TL39 (GLEIF)
ISIN
GB0005405286 (check digit validated)
FIGI
BBG001S696H2 (share class, OpenFIGI)

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Sector peers — Financials

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How this market cap is arrived at

Shares outstanding17,175,239,862
Basisoutstanding
As of2025-12-31
SourceSEC 20-F cover page (2025-12-31)
Price1528.4 GBp · HSBA.L · close 2026-08-28
VenueLSE
Converted atECB euro reference rates, 2026-08-28
Market cap$356.6bn

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.

Share counts move on a filing cadence, prices move continuously — so this figure is exact only as of the two dates above, and we publish both rather than a single undated number. This company is quoted here through a depositary receipt (HSBC), where one receipt represents 5 ordinary shares; the price is put on an ordinary-share basis before it meets the share count. Provenance.

Fundamentals

From the 20-F for the year ended 2025-12-31USDAs reported
Net incomeifrs-full:ProfitLoss $23.1bn
Total assetsifrs-full:Assets $3233.0bn


Market cap / net income 15.4× — a market value from 2026-08-28 divided by earnings for a year that ended 2025-12-31. The two dates are far apart on purpose: this is arithmetic on two published numbers, not a valuation.

Every figure above is read from the same 20-F, filed 2026-02-26, and each row names the XBRL tag it came from so it can be checked against the document. Metrics absent from that filing are absent here rather than sourced from a different year — a table mixing periods is individually true and collectively meaningless.

Identifier crosswalk

StandardValueWhat it answers
Ticker HSBA Venue-local shorthand — ambiguous across markets
MIC XLON ISO 10383 — the venue
ISIN GB0005405286 ISO 6166 — the security
LEI MLU0ZO3ML4LN2LL2TL39 ISO 17442 — the legal entity
FIGI BBG001S696H2 OpenFIGI — instrument, share class

5 naming systems for one entity — only codes we actually hold are listed, with no gaps filled by guessing. Sources: LEI from GLEIF (CC0), ISIN read from the issuer's own primary listing document, with its ISO 6166 check digit validated, FIGI from OpenFIGI (open standard), MIC from the ISO 10383 registry. Each linked code opens its reverse-lookup page; the validator checks any code's check digit. seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30.

Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.

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