Garmin
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is a global technology company that designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes GPS-enabled products and navigation solutions for consumers and professionals worldwide. Operating for more than 35 years, Garmin has delivered over 300 million products, including more than 20 million… From the company’s description.
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What Garmin does
In the company’s own words
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is a global technology company that designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes GPS-enabled products and navigation solutions for consumers and professionals worldwide. Operating for more than 35 years, Garmin has delivered over 300 million products, including more than 20 million during fiscal 2025, establishing itself as a leader in location-based technology and wearable devices.
The company operates through five primary reportable segments: Fitness, Outdoor, Aviation, Marine, and Auto OEM. The Fitness segment encompasses running watches under the Forerunner brand, cycling computers, smartwatches including the Venu and vívoactive series, health monitoring devices, and sports timing solutions through the MYLAPS brand. The Outdoor segment offers adventure watches, handheld GPS devices, golf products, consumer automotive navigation solutions, and satellite communicators featuring inReach technology. The Aviation segment provides integrated flight decks, electronic flight displays, autopilot systems, weather solutions, and related services to general aviation, business aviation, rotorcraft, and emerging markets. The Marine segment delivers chartplotters, fishfinders, sonar systems, radar, autopilot systems, and audio solutions for recreational boating. The Auto OEM segment supplies domain controllers, infotainment units, and software solutions to automobile manufacturers.
Garmin maintains approximately 23,000 full and part-time employees globally, with approximately 8,100 in the Americas, 11,400 in Asia Pacific, and 3,500 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates vertically integrated manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland, and China, providing significant competitive advantages in cost control, quality assurance, and time-to-market capabilities.
The company's website is www.garmin.com. Garmin products utilize multiple global navigation satellite systems including GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou, complemented by proprietary applications such as Garmin Connect for fitness tracking and Connect IQ for third-party application development. The company holds over 2,100 patents worldwide and maintains more than 1,290 trademark registrations, including recognized brands such as Forerunner, Venu, fēnix, inReach, GPSMAP, and Fusion audio systems.
Company details
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry (SIC)
- Medical Instruments
- Headquarters
- SCHAFFHAUSEN
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1121788
- SIC
- 3812
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Garmin — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Garmin’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
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