Antitrust Violations
Conduct Screen Corporate Misconduct
Anti-competitive practices: price-fixing, monopolistic behavior, or market manipulation
25 companies currently excluded under this screen
Excluded Companies (25 total)
Showing 25 of 25 companies excluded under this screen.
| Ticker | Company | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| AAPL | Apple | In 2025, a U.S. federal judge allowed a landmark DOJ lawsuit to proceed, finding plausible evidence that Apple illegally monopolizes the smartphone market by suppressing "super apps," limiting cross-p... |
| ABEV | Ambev S.A. | In October 2023, the Brazilian Antitrust Authority (CADE) signed a "Cease and Desist" agreement with Ambev following investigations into exclusivity contracts with bars and restaurants. The agreement,... |
| AJG | ARTHUR J GALLAGHER & CO | Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. agreed to pay $27 million to resolve criminal charges for participating in an anticompetitive scheme to allocate customers and suppress competition in the surplus insurance b... |
| ALL | ALLSTATE CORP | The Texas Attorney General filed a complaint against Allstate Corporation, alleging a sophisticated scheme to covertly collect and monetize sensitive consumer data, including precise geolocation and d... |
| AMGN | Amgen Inc. | FTC 2023 settlement: 15-year prohibition on exclusionary rebate bundling practices that disadvantaged biosimilar competitors; settled with FTC and 9 state AGs |
| ANET | ARISTA NETWORKS INC | In 2016, the FTC filed a complaint against Arista Networks Inc. for anticompetitive practices related to its acquisition of certain assets from Brocade Communications Systems Inc. |
| AON | AON PLC | The DOJ required Aon PLC and Willis Towers Watson to divest certain assets to proceed with their $30 billion merger due to antitrust concerns, as announced on June 16, 2021. |
| CPT | CAMDEN PROPERTY TRUST | DOJ amended complaint (Jan 2025) names Camden Property Trust in hub-and-spoke RealPage algorithmic price-fixing conspiracy. Camden shared non-public lease prices, occupancy projections, and unit ameni... |
| EQR | EQUITY RESIDENTIAL | Equity Residential named in DOJ investigation of RealPage algorithmic rent-fixing cartel (2024); coordinated rent increases across major metros harming millions of tenants. Prior $770k DOJ Fair Housin... |
| FDS | FACTSET RESEARCH SYSTEMS INC | A class-action antitrust lawsuit filed March 4, 2024 alleges FactSet Research Systems conspired with CUSIP Global Services, S&P Global, and the American Bankers Association to eliminate competition in... |
| GOOGL | Alphabet Inc. | Federal court ruled Google unlawfully maintained monopoly in online search market through exclusionary distribution contracts (paying Apple ~$18B/year to be default search engine). DOJ prevailed Augus... |
| ICE | INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE INC | The FTC approved a proposed consent order to resolve antitrust concerns surrounding Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.'s (ICE) proposed $13.1 billion acquisition of Black Knight, Inc. |
| KEYS | KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC | The Justice Department required Keysight Technologies Inc. to divest Spirent's high-speed ethernet testing, network security testing, and RF channel emulation businesses to proceed with its acquisitio... |
| LYV | LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT INC | On May 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, alleging monopolization and anticompetitive practices... |
| MA | MASTERCARD INC | Mastercard agreed to settle DOJ antitrust charges in 2010 by removing anticompetitive rules that blocked merchants from steering customers to lower-cost payment methods. |
| META | Meta Platforms, Inc. | In a lawsuit currently pending, the FTC has alleged that Facebook engaged in a systematic strategy to eliminate competitive threats. They cite its 2012 acquisition of Instagram, 2014 acquisition of Wh... |
| MMC | MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES INC | Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. agreed to pay $850 million in restitution and penalties to settle charges of anticompetitive practices in the insurance brokerage industry, as announced by the DOJ on J... |
| NOW | SERVICENOW INC | ServiceNow Inc.'s $2.85 billion planned acquisition of artificial intelligence firm Moveworks Inc. is facing an in-depth antitrust review by the Department of Justice. |
| NVDA | NVIDIA Corporation | In September 2025, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued a formal finding that NVIDIA violated the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) by breaching the behavioral conditions tied to its... |
| PBI | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Pitney Bowes was involved in an antitrust dispute with the Presort Operations Association, resolved in October 2025. The case concerned anticompetitive practices in the postal presort industry. |
| RVTY | REVVITY INC | Revvity sued three service engineers and their associated company Revivo-Dynamics for trade secret misappropriation and unfair competition in case 1:25-cv-11657 filed in Massachusetts Superior Court. |
| SNPS | SYNOPSYS INC | The FTC alleged that Synopsys's $35 billion acquisition of Ansys was anticompetitive across three markets, leading to a consent order requiring divestitures of optical and photonic software tools. |
| SPGI | S&P GLOBAL INC | The DOJ required S&P Global Inc. and IHS Markit Ltd. to divest assets related to their oil price reporting and coal, metals, and mining data businesses to proceed with their merger, citing anticompeti... |
| V | VISA INC | The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit on November 5, 2020 to block Visa Inc.'s proposed $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid Inc., alleging it would eliminate a nascent competiti... |
| VRSN | VERISIGN INC | The U.S. Department of Justice required Verisign to divest its web security business as a condition for proceeding with its acquisition of Symantec's website security business to address anticompetiti... |
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