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Three mainboard IPOs listed on 23 September 2026. Two opened well above their issue price and one opened below it — and the one that was subscribed the most was not the one that gained the most. Here are the listing-day figures, with what they do and do not tell you.
China accounts for nearly three-fifths of global digital hardware capacity. Taiwan, South Korea and Japan take another fifth between them. India is fifth at 3.8% — ahead of the United States, and only just ahead of Vietnam. Here is what that ranking measures and what it does not.
Delta Air Lines is the world’s biggest listed airline by revenue at $68.3 billion a year. InterGlobe Aviation, which runs IndiGo, is 22nd at $10.0 billion — even though IndiGo operates more flights than all but seven airlines. Here is the ranking, and what explains the gap.
Counted by the number of flights it operates, IndiGo is the eighth-busiest airline on the planet — ahead of Air China, easyJet, Lufthansa and Emirates. Here is what the ranking measures, who leads it, and why a flight count is not the same thing as a big airline.
A Bernstein comparison says Zomato and Swiggy earn close to Meituan's peak profit per order, even though China's market is about 22 times India's. Here is how food delivery unit economics are measured (GOV, AOV, take rate, contribution and adjusted EBITDA per order), what the filings confirm and what the comparison does not show.
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