Skydance SKYD
Skydance is the 277th largest S&P 500 company by market cap, worth $39.2 billion. 10 directors have filed with the SEC in the last 12 months (who counts), 2 of them executives. 3 other officers are on file. At 30 Jun 2026, Lingotto Investment Management was its largest institutional holder, with 4.1% of the company.
- CEO
- David Ferris Ellison
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Sub-industry
- Movies & Entertainment
- Headquarters
- New York City, New York
- Founded
- 1912
- More
- Wikipedia
- Market cap
- $39.2B
- 277th largest, 23 Oct 2026 close
- Price to sales
- 1.4
- Market cap over revenue
- Market cap per employee
- $2.2M
- Market cap over employees
- Connections
- 4
- S&P 500 companies sharing a director or officer
Largest institutional holders
Each fund group's share of Skydance. Where a company has several share classes, the share is of its total value. Stakes are of the shares out at 30 Jun 2026; the count has since grown 4.5 times, with the shares issued for the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
13F filings for the quarter to 30 Jun 2026
Board and officers
3 people here also hold roles at other S&P 500 companies.
Roles filed up to 30 Sep 2026
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Directors (10) | |
| David Ferris EllisonChief Executive Officer | |
| Andrew Mark Brandon-GordonChief Strategy Officer and COO | |
| Barbara M. ByrneDirector | |
| Andrew CampionDirectorAlso at Starbucks and Williams-Sonoma | |
| Gerald J. CardinaleDirector | |
| Safra CatzDirectorAlso at Oracle | |
| Justin HamillDirector | |
| Sherry LansingDirector | |
| Paul T. MarinelliDirector | |
| John L. ThorntonDirectorAlso at Ford Motor Company | |
| Officers (3) | |
| Dennis CinelliChief Financial OfficerLast filed 17 Jul 2026 | |
| Makan DelrahimChief Legal OfficerLast filed 7 Jul 2026 | |
| Katherine Gill-CharestEVP, Controller & CAOLast filed 4 Sep 2026 | |
Companies that share people with Skydance
Each person's title here, then at the other company.
- Ford Motor Company F
- John L. Thornton: Director here, Director there
- Oracle ORCL
- Safra Catz: Director here, Director there
- Starbucks SBUX
- Andrew Campion: Director here, Director there
- Williams-Sonoma WSM
- Andrew Campion: Director here, Director there
Skydance's market cap since December 2022
Marked weeks are changes in the share count, such as a merger, not market moves.
Weekly, up to 23 Oct 2026
| Week ending | Market cap |
|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2026 | $39.2B |
| 26 Dec 2025 | $14.6B |
| 27 Dec 2024 | $6.9B |
| 29 Dec 2023 | $9.6B |
| 30 Dec 2022 | $11.0B |
Download Skydance's data as JSON, with the weekly market caps in billions of dollars from 2 Dec 2022.
Workforce
Headcount at 31 Dec 2025
- Employees
- 17,600
I-6As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 17,600 full- and part-time employees in 30 countries worldwide and had approximately 3,600 project-based staff on our payroll.
WARN layoff notices
Notices filed under Skydance's own name. Subsidiaries that file under their own names are not included.
Notices from 26 Oct 2023 to 26 Oct 2026
Skydance filed 8 notices covering 512 workers since October 2023.
| Notice | Place | Workers |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Apr 2026 | Los Angeles, CA | 5 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | Los Angeles, CA | 2 |
| 29 Oct 2025 | New York, NY | 350 |
| 29 Oct 2025 | New York, NY | 117 |
| 29 Oct 2025 | New York, NY | 29 |
| 29 Oct 2025 | New York, NY | 5 |
| 29 Oct 2025 | New York, NY | 3 |
| 29 Oct 2025 | New York, NY | 1 |
Not on file: no open-market insider buys or sales in the 12 months to 30 Sep 2026 and no trades disclosed by members of Congress or officials since October 2023.