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Shell (SHEL)

Integrated energy major: LNG leadership, upstream, trading and growing power business.

Legal name
Shell plc
Ticker
SHEL
Exchange
London Stock Exchange · MIC XLON
Country
United Kingdom
Sector
Energy
Industry
Oil & Gas
Market cap ≈
$258.5bn — computed, not copied: 5.690bn shares × 3344.5 GBp close on 2026-08-28
Reporting currency
GBP
Founded
1907
Website
www.shell.com
LEI
21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70 (GLEIF)
ISIN
GB00BP6MXD84 (check digit validated)
FIGI
BBG0149N4YG4 (share class, OpenFIGI)

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lists_onLondon Stock Exchange
domiciled_inUnited Kingdom member_ofFTSE 100

Sector peers — Energy

Compare: SHEL vs XOM · SHEL vs 2222 · SHEL vs RELIANCE

How this market cap is arrived at

Shares outstanding5,689,891,670
Basisoutstanding
As of2025-12-31
SourceSEC 20-F cover page (2025-12-31)
Price3344.5 GBp · SHEL.L · close 2026-08-28
VenueLSE
Converted atECB euro reference rates, 2026-08-28
Market cap$258.5bn

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.

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 (SHEL), where one receipt represents 2 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 $18.1bn
Research & developmentifrs-full:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense $1.2bn
Total assetsifrs-full:Assets $370.4bn


Market cap / net income 14.3× — 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 2026-03-12, 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 SHEL Venue-local shorthand — ambiguous across markets
MIC XLON ISO 10383 — the venue
ISIN GB00BP6MXD84 ISO 6166 — the security
LEI 21380068P1DRHMJ8KU70 ISO 17442 — the legal entity
FIGI BBG0149N4YG4 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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