SoftBank

Softbank is a Tokyo-based Japanese multinational holding company. It owns 80 percent of Sprint, a major telecom business in the United States. SoftBank also operates in fields like as broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, the internet, technology services, finance, media & marketing, semiconductor design, and others. The company is valued at $85 billion in 2019.

The company's founder and principal owner, Masayoshi Son, is well-known for his leadership. With 45.621 million members as of March 2021, SoftBank Corporation, the company's previous flagship and a spun-off affiliate, is Japan's third-largest wireless carrier.

In 2017, Forbes Global 2000 ranked SoftBank as the world's 36th largest public company, and Japan's second-largest publicly traded corporation behind Toyota. The flag of the Kaientai, a maritime trading firm founded by Sakamoto Ryma near the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1865, is the inspiration for SoftBank's logo.

Founded: 1981

Country: Japan

Market Cap: $93.63 Billion

Website: group.softbank