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Public companies by lobbying spend

Listed companies ranked by their lobbying spend in 2026 Q2 — the most recent quarter most of them have reported. A quarter that has only just opened is not comparable, so it is not used.

When a company files for itself, its reported expenses are the whole figure and already include what it paid outside firms. When it does not, the figure is the sum of what outside firms reported earning from it. A company that filed but left the amount unreadable shows as “not readable”, never as zero.

A row marked outside firms is a floor, not a total. It means we have not matched the company’s own filing, so only its lobbyists’ fees are counted and its real spend is higher. Compare those rows with each other, not with the self-filed ones.

#Company2026 Q2Basis
1LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP LMT$4.2Mown filing
2GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP GD$3.4Mown filing
3ELI LILLY & Co LLY$3.3Mown filing
4BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB CO BMY$3.2Mown filing
5BOEING CO BA$2.8Mown filing
6Apple Inc. AAPL$2.7Mown filing
7MICROSOFT CORP MSFT$2.7Mown filing
8AMGEN INC AMGN$2.4Mown filing
9Merck & Co., Inc. MRK$2.3Mown filing
10NEXTERA ENERGY INC NEE$2.2Mown filing
11Palantir Technologies Inc. PLTR$2.1Mown filing
12ORACLE CORP ORCL$2.0Mown filing
13PFIZER INC PFE$1.9Mown filing
14UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC UNH$1.9Mown filing
15GILEAD SCIENCES, INC. GILD$1.6Mown filing
16Salesforce, Inc. CRM$1.5Mown filing
17Dell Technologies Inc. DELL$1.5Mown filing
18COCA COLA CO KO$1.4Mown filing
19AbbVie Inc. ABBV$1.2Mown filing
20HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC. HII$1.1Mown filing
21CATERPILLAR INC CAT$1.1Mown filing
22CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. CSCO$850Kown filing
23Meta Platforms, Inc. META$773Koutside firms
24NIKE, Inc. NKE$750Kown filing
25GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC GS$640Kown filing
26HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC HON$510Koutside firms
27DEERE & CO DE$509Kown filing
28Science Applications International Corp SAIC$470Kown filing
29VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC VZ$430Koutside firms
30TransDigm Group INC TDG$370Koutside firms
31STARBUCKS CORP SBUX$310Kown filing
32Moderna, Inc. MRNA$290Kown filing
33RTX Corp RTX$170Koutside firms
34GENERAL ELECTRIC CO GE$101Koutside firms
35AT&T INC. T$80Koutside firms
36MCDONALDS CORP MCD$60Koutside firms
37JPMORGAN CHASE & CO JPM$50Koutside firms
38Leidos Holdings, Inc. LDOS$40Koutside firms
39JOHNSON & JOHNSON JNJ$30Koutside firms

Coverage from 2024-01 · updated 2026-09-09 · 50 companies covered, 0 incomplete

Each company’s full quarterly history, the issues lobbied on, and links to the filings themselves are on its ticker page.

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