With over a third of the market value of all public companies represented by just over half a dozen tech companies, the media is focused on AI dramas, but how about the under-showcased performance stories from the other two-thirds of the market — and most of corporate America?
While the financial markets remained focused on AI developments for 2025, public companies outside the tech sector pressed ahead with growth strategies, launched new products, expanded into new markets, carried out complex turnarounds, acquired competitors, and navigated external challenges, many of them to do with offsetting tariff costs. Some CEOs from these large corporations executed their initiatives exceptionally well, and others did not.
