Our list of 100 companies was extracted from a total of 150 companies, of which 120 qualified with revenues of >US$100M in 2025. Of these 120 companies 71 are publicly traded companies and 49 are private companies.

For publicly traded companies, the figures are based on published data. 13 companies (as of March 5, 2026) have not yet submitted their final results for 2025; in these cases, the most recent annual forecasts communicated by management were used. These companies account for 12.3% of total revenue in 2025. Even with a deviation of 20%, this would only affect the total figure by approximately ±2.5%.

For the 49 privately held companies, 20 companies did not have current data available, so estimates were made based on older figures. As these are predominantly smaller companies, they represent only 1.3% of total revenue. Even with a possible deviation of 50%, this would only result in an additional uncertainty of around ±0.65%.

Overall, this results in an estimated total tolerance of ±3.1% for the evaluation.