Who depends on whom

A US company has to name every customer behind 10% or more of its revenue in its annual report. Put together, those disclosures show which companies live off one buyer, which buyers whole groups of suppliers depend on, and who the U.S. government carries.

671 companies disclose a customer above the line, out of 3,070 annual reports. As of Oct 23, 2026.

What these disclosures add up to, every figure checked against the filing: Who lives off one customer, the 2026 study.

Concentration at a glance

How much of a company one buyer can be.

100%

Assembly Biosciences · Gilead Sciences, the highest share of one named customer

96

companies · one customer is half their revenue or more

27

customers · named by 3 or more suppliers

One customer, most of the revenue

Each company's largest customer that it names, as a share of its revenue. The U.S. government has its own list below.

Companies by the revenue share of their largest named customer
CompanyLargest named customerOf revenue
ASMBGilead Sciences100%
IRWDAbbVie100%
ACICAmRisc97%
LKFTGilead Sciences97%
RCUSGilead Sciences97%
CLDXRockefeller University93%
CRUSApple91%
LOPEGrand Canyon University90%
SYMWalmart85%
ARWRSarepta Therapeutics84%
FORD. R. Horton83%
HPKDK Trading and Supply82%
AQSTIndivor73%
AMBAWT Microelectronics70%
CIFRFoundry USA Pool70%
GPGIHusky Technologies65%
KOPNDRS Network and Imaging Systems62%
SXCCleveland-Cliffs62%
ALXBloomberg61%
VNOMDiamondback Energy55%
EYPTANI Pharmaceuticals55%
CENXGlencore54%
AAOIDigicomm53%
SENSAscensia53%
GYRESinopharm52%
MTDRPlains ALL American Pipeline49%
FCELGGE46%
DTMExpand Energy45%
NKTRTakeda (Baxalta)45%
DCHGeneral Motors44%
CELHPepsiCo43%
RJETAmerican Airlines Group43%
JAZZCigna42%
RIGLMcKesson42%
JBSSWalmart41%
CCIT-Mobile US40%
OSWCarnival40%
PKEGE Aerospace39%
ICHRApplied Materials39%
HNSTAmazon39%
HXLAirbus and its subcontractors39%
TRVGBooking Holdings39%
RGLDBank of Montreal38%
VICIMGM Resorts38%
BRSLADM37%
UCTTLam Research37%
GLNGBP p.l.c.36%
NVAXSanofi36%
RIVNJPMorgan Chase36%
SDRLPetrobras - Petroleo Brasileiro36%
TALOShell35%
VISNComcast35%
PREnterprise Products Partners34%
SJMWalmart34%
SMGHome Depot34%
CERSAmerican Red Cross33%
WTIBP p.l.c.33%
SDTarga Resources33%
ESEAOrient Overseas Container Line Ltd Hong32%
POWIAvnet32%

376more companies keep their largest customer anonymous (“Customer A”), 47 of them with half their revenue or more from it. Their stock pages list the share as filed.

The U.S. government as the customer

The share of revenue each contractor reports from the federal government and its agencies combined.

Companies by the share of revenue from the U.S. government
CompanyCustomerOf revenue
HIIU.S. government100%
SAICU.S. government98%
VVXU.S. government96%
CACIU.S. government96%
FEIMU.S. government91%
TLSU.S. government91%
BBAIU.S. government90%
DEAU.S. government88%
LDOSU.S. government87%
VOYGU.S. government86%
AVAVU.S. government85%
NOCU.S. government84%
HUMMedicare83%
AMTMU.S. government81%
DRSU.S. government80%
LHXU.S. government75%
LMTU.S. government71%
GDU.S. government68%
BWXTU.S. government68%
KTOSU.S. government68%
INFQU.S. government60%
KBRU.S. government57%
MMSU.S. government55%
CXWU.S. government54%
PNTGMedicare48%
RGTIU.S. government48%
EBSU.S. government46%
RTXU.S. government45%
INNVMedicare44%
APEIU.S. government41%

What the agencies committed to each company, contract by contract: Who sells to Washington.

Each share comes from the company’s latest annual report on SEC EDGAR (10-K, 20-F or 40-F): the concentration figures it tags in its financial statements, or the sentence in which it names the customer. Only customers behind 10% or more of revenue have to be disclosed, so smaller ones never appear, and a company may keep a large customer anonymous. A share is always of the reporting company’s revenue, from its most recent fiscal year.