The List: public companies based in the Pittsburgh region
Those 32 companies had total net income of about $16.1 billion, down 12.6% from the prior year.
Information on The List was supplied by individual company filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, company websites, and Marketplace and could not be independently verified by the Pittsburgh Business Times. In case of ties, companies are listed alphabetically. Companies that are traded over-the-counter that do not file complete financials with the SEC are not listed. Includes public companies and major publicly traded financial institutions based in the Pittsburgh region. Additional content about listed companies is available online.
For information about this and other Pittsburgh Business Times Lists, please contact Data Editor Ethan Lott at elott@bizjournals.com or 412-208-3823.
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