Thales
Thales (HO.PA) is a publicly traded Established Primes company founded in 2000 and based in Meudon, France.
Thales took its name in December 2000, when Thomson-CSF was renamed, and traces its roots to Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston, founded in 1893. It is headquartered in Meudon, France, and reports in three segments: defense, aerospace, and cyber & digital. Thales earns revenue by selling equipment, systems and services to armed forces, governments and companies; 2025 sales were €22.1 billion, and it has more than 85,000 employees in 65 countries and spends €4.5 billion a year on research and development. From January to September 2026 order intake rose 14% to €19.1 billion and sales reached €16.4 billion, of which the defense segment contributed €9.4 billion. It sold its ground transportation business to Hitachi Rail on May 31, 2024. Thales trades on Euronext Paris under the ticker HO, and on June 30, 2025 the French state held 26.6% of its shares and Dassault Aviation 26.59%.
Thales's defense orders rose 14% to €11.3 billion from January to September 2026, a period in which the group booked 29 orders above €100 million worth €7.6 billion. Those contracts covered work on France's SNLE 3G ballistic-missile submarines, 12 Ground Master 200 radars for Romania funded under the EU's SAFE program, rocket pods for 150 Indian combat helicopters, and TALIOS optronic pods for an export Rafale deal. Its Starstreak and LMM missiles equip British and Ukrainian forces, and the UK ordered 5,000 LMMs for Ukraine in March 2025.
At a glance
Total raised
Undisclosed
Headcount
10k+
Headquarters
Meudon
FranceFounded
2000
Status
Public
Subsector
Defense, ranked
Top 25 Defense companies →Funding history
Total raised
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Rounds tracked
0
No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.
