U.K. Most Popular Stocks

AstraZeneca

Market Cap: UK£160.0b

A biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, manufacture, and commercialization of prescription medicines.

Shell

Market Cap: UK£142.3b

Operates as an energy and petrochemical company Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, the United States, and other Americas.

HSBC Holdings

Market Cap: UK£134.7b

Engages in the provision of banking and financial products and services worldwide.

Unilever

Market Cap: UK£117.2b

Operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company in the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

Rio Tinto Group

Market Cap: UK£74.2b

Engages in exploring, mining, and processing mineral resources worldwide.

RELX

Market Cap: UK£69.8b

Provides information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in North America, Europe, and internationally.

British American Tobacco

Market Cap: UK£69.4b

Provides tobacco and nicotine products to consumers in the Americas, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and the United States.

Rolls-Royce Holdings

Market Cap: UK£59.4b

Develops and delivers mission-critical power systems in the United Kingdom and internationally.

London Stock Exchange Group

Market Cap: UK£58.5b

Provides financial markets infrastructure and delivers financial data, analytics, news, and index products to customers in the United Kingdom and internationally.

BP

Market Cap: UK£54.0b

An integrated energy company, provides carbon products and services.

GSK

Market Cap: UK£53.6b

Engages in the research, development, and manufacture of vaccines, and specialty and general medicines to prevent and treat disease in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally.

BAE Systems

Market Cap: UK£50.7b

Provides defense, aerospace, and security solutions in the United Kingdom, the United States, the Middle East, Australia, Japan, Europe, and internationally.

National Grid

Market Cap: UK£50.7b

National Grid plc transmits and distributes electricity and gas.

Diageo

Market Cap: UK£46.9b

Engages in the production, marketing, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Compass Group

Market Cap: UK£42.8b

Provides food and support services in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and internationally.

Lloyds Banking Group

Market Cap: UK£41.2b

Provides a range of banking and financial products and services in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Barclays

Market Cap: UK£38.6b

Provides various financial services in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

NatWest Group

Market Cap: UK£37.8b

Provides banking and financial products and services to personal, commercial, corporate, and institutional customers in the United Kingdom and internationally.

3i Group

Market Cap: UK£37.7b

A private equity firm specializing in mature companies, growth capital, middle markets, infrastructure, and management leveraged buyouts and buy-ins.

Haleon

Market Cap: UK£34.2b

Engages in the research, development, manufacture, and sale of various consumer healthcare products in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific.

Reckitt Benckiser Group

Market Cap: UK£33.0b

Manufactures and sells health, hygiene, and nutrition products in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Glencore

Market Cap: UK£31.3b

Engages in the production, refinement, processing, storage, transport, and marketing of metals and minerals, and energy products in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.

Experian

Market Cap: UK£31.2b

Operates as a data and technology company in North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific.

Anglo American

Market Cap: UK£24.1b

Operates as a mining company in the United Kingdom and internationally.

Imperial Brands

Market Cap: UK£23.8b

Manufactures, imports, markets, and sells tobacco and tobacco-related products in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Asia, Australasia, and internationally.

Standard Chartered

Market Cap: UK£23.4b

Provides various banking products and services in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.

Tesco

Market Cap: UK£22.5b

Operates as a grocery retailer in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.

Prudential

Market Cap: UK£19.7b

Through its subsidiaries, provides life and health insurance, and asset management solutions to individuals in Asia and Africa.

SSE

Market Cap: UK£17.2b

Engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, and supply of electricity.

Vodafone Group

Market Cap: UK£17.1b

Provides telecommunication services in Germany, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, Turkey, and Africa.

Ashtead Group

Market Cap: UK£17.1b

Engages in the construction, industrial, and general equipment rental business under the Sunbelt Rentals brand name in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

BT Group

Market Cap: UK£16.2b

Provides communications products and services in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific.

Antofagasta

Market Cap: UK£15.0b

Operates as a mining company.

Associated British Foods

Market Cap: UK£14.9b

Operates as a diversified food, ingredients, and retail company worldwide.

Legal & General Group

Market Cap: UK£13.8b

Provides various insurance products and services in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally.

NEXT

Market Cap: UK£13.7b

Engages in the retail of clothing, homeware, and beauty products in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and internationally.