Industry stock overviews
Listed companies by industry, from 8 trade fairs
We read the exhibitor lists of the leading trade fairs and matched the exhibitors to listed companies. The result: 8 industry overviews with more than 1,000 company entries, each with pure plays, tickers and a free Excel file.
Updated November 1, 2026
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All industry stock overviews
| Industry | Companies | Pure plays | Trade fair |
|---|---|---|---|
| RailwayRail operators, rolling stock makers, signalling and infrastructure suppliers. | 226 | 26 | InnoTrans 2024 Berlin |
| Photonics & lasersLaser makers, optics, sensors and photonics components. | 91 | 33 | LASER World of PHOTONICS 2025 Munich |
| SemiconductorsChip makers, equipment and materials suppliers. | 128 | 38 | SEMICON Europa 2026 Munich |
| DefenceDefence primes, ammunition, electronics and suppliers. | 176 | 44 | Eurosatory 2026 Paris |
| WaterPumps, treatment, meters and water engineers. | 94 | 17 | WEFTEC 2026 New Orleans |
| NuclearUranium and fuel, reactor components, engineers and operators. | 105 | 11 | WNE 2025 Paris |
| SpaceSatellite builders, launch companies, operators and suppliers. | 114 | 14 | Space Tech Expo Europe 2026 and USA 2027 Bremen and Anaheim |
| RoboticsRobot makers, reducers, machine vision and automation engineers. | 80 | 15 | automatica 2025 Munich |
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How do we build the overviews?
TL;DR: We start with the exhibitor list of a leading trade fair, not with a stock screener. That finds companies that screeners miss.
Method
Why trade fairs?
Stock screeners sort companies by industry codes. These codes are often wrong or too broad: a pump maker sits in "machinery", a satellite supplier in "electronics". At a trade fair, companies show what they actually sell to an industry. That is why exhibitor lists are a good starting point to find listed companies with real exposure.
For each overview we read the complete exhibitor list, often more than 1,000 entries. We match the exhibitors to listed companies or their listed parent groups, check tickers against market data and sort them into pure plays and companies with exposure. Private, family-owned and state-owned exhibitors are excluded, but we name the most important ones on each page.
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What is in each overview?
Every overview has a searchable table of all companies with ticker, exchange, country, segment and the name under which they exhibited. Pure plays come with their market cap. You can download the full list as a free Excel file, together with an AI research pack: ready-made prompts to research the list with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.
The lists are a starting point for your own research, not a recommendation. They are curated and may miss smaller listed exhibitors. If you find one, please tell us.
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Which industry should we cover next?
TL;DR: Tell us which trade fair or industry you would like to see next.
This page is for information only. It is no investment advice and no recommendation. Please read our disclaimer. Header photo: Unsplash.
