Companies · Puzzle #27 · Monday, October 26
Companies: the board
Eight items, eight categories, one place each. Here is the board with every figure and where it comes from, and the best way to place them. Play today's Companies.
The categories
- Buybacks: 1 pt per doubling over $10M, last year
- Profit: 1.5 pts per doubling over $150M, last year
- On the Nasdaq: 10 pts if listed on the Nasdaq
- Sales per employee: 2 pts per doubling over $60K a head, last year
- Growth: 1 pt per 2.5% sales growth, last year
- Inventory: 1.5 pts per doubling over $100M, at year end
- Sales: 1.5 pts per doubling over $1.5B, last year
- Workforce: 1.5 pts per doubling over 2,500 staff, at year end
The best board
The best board is hidden while some of these items are still in play: they're on a board again within 14 days.
The lineup, figure by figure
Caterpillar
Bulldozers, excavators and mining trucks
Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Lucid
Luxury electric cars, like the Lucid Air
Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
UnitedHealth
Health insurance, plus Optum
Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
ConocoPhillips
Oil and gas producer
Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Johnson & Johnson
Medicines and medical devices
Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Goldman Sachs
Investment bank
Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Microsoft
Windows, Office, Xbox and the Azure cloud
Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Domino's
Pizza delivery chain
Domino's trades on the Nasdaq, so its best fit on this board was On the Nasdaq, worth 10.0. Its weakest was Inventory, worth 0.0: $79M of inventory at the end of December 2025.
- Buybacks
- $358M of its own stock bought back in the year to December 2025 (5.2) Source: DOMINOS PIZZA INC 10-K, filed 2026-02-23
- Profit
- $602M profit in the year to December 2025 (3.0) Source: DOMINOS PIZZA INC 10-K, filed 2026-02-23
- On the Nasdaq
- trades on the Nasdaq (10.0) Source: DOMINOS PIZZA INC 10-K, filed 2026-02-23
- Sales per employee
- $484K in sales per employee in the year to December 2025 (6.0) Source: DOMINOS PIZZA INC 10-K, filed 2026-02-23
- Growth
- sales up 5.0% in the year to December 2025 (2.0) Source: DOMINOS PIZZA INC 10-K, filed 2026-02-23
- Inventory
- $79M of inventory at the end of December 2025 (0.0) Source: DOMINOS PIZZA INC 10-K, filed 2026-02-23
- Sales
- $4.9B in sales in the year to December 2025 (2.6) Source: DOMINOS PIZZA INC 10-K, filed 2026-02-23
- Workforce
- 10,200 employees at the end of December 2025 (3.0) Source: DOMINOS PIZZA INC 10-K, filed 2026-02-23