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List of companies of Saudi Arabia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ187915 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saudi Arabia is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula.

Public companies are listed on the Tadawul. For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see "Business entities in Saudi Arabia".

Largest firms

This list shows firms in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks firms by total revenues reported before 25 January 2025. Only the top five firms (if available) are included as a sample.

Notable firms

This list includes notable companies with primary headquarters located in the country. The industry and sector follow the Industry Classification Benchmark taxonomy. Organizations which have ceased operations are included and noted as defunct.

Editorial summary

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, companies and Saudi is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “List of companies of Saudi Arabia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.