Annual rank19
Sweden · Industrials
Saab
Saab operates through four named business areas: Aeronautics, Dynamics, Surveillance and Naval.
FY2022–FY2025
FY2022–FY2025
FY2022–FY2025
current context only
Company profile
Platforms, sensors and local industrial partnerships
Saab combines combat aircraft, airborne and ground sensors, infantry weapons, naval platforms and combat-management software with training and lifecycle support. The revealing part is how these capabilities reach customers: Gripen work is divided between Sweden and Brazil, Saab's T-7A section is built in Indiana for Boeing, and Saab now places its naval-platform work and most of Naval Combat Systems in one business area.
Aircraft and industrial partnerships
Divide aircraft work across Brazil, Sweden and the United States
Saab's São Bernardo do Campo plant makes Gripen aerostructures for final assembly at Embraer's Gavião Peixoto plant and at Saab in Linköping. The Brazilian final line receives those sections and is an Embraer facility, not a second Saab plant. In the Boeing-Saab T-7A programme, Saab develops and manufactures the fully installed aft fuselage; series work moved from Linköping to West Lafayette, Indiana, before delivery to Boeing.
- Explore Gripen E Sensors, avionics, electronic warfare and dispersed operations
- Enter the Brazilian aerostructures plant The exact sections made by Saab in São Bernardo do Campo
- Follow Gripen to final assembly How Saab and Embraer divide work at Gavião Peixoto
- See Saab's T-7A role The Boeing-Saab trainer and Saab's aft-fuselage responsibility
- Open the Indiana production story West Lafayette manufacturing before delivery to Boeing
- ▶ VideoWatch the adaptable avionics film Official English-captioned Saab film on Gripen E's architecture
Sensors and decision support
See from the air, locate from the ground and decide at sea
GlobalEye combines Erieye ER with other sensors and command-and-control aboard a Bombardier aircraft for air, sea and land surveillance. Giraffe 4A is a mobile or fixed GaN-AESA radar for air surveillance, weapon location and ground-based air defence. On ships, 9LV fuses sensor data, coordinates weapons and supports operator decisions. They are separate systems for different settings, not one combined product.
- Look inside GlobalEye Airborne multi-domain sensors, endurance and command-and-control
- Deploy Giraffe 4A A mobile or fixed radar for surveillance and weapon location
- Open the 9LV combat-management system Naval data fusion, sensor and weapon coordination, and decision support
- ▶ VideoWatch why airborne surveillance matters Official English-subtitled Saab explainer on seeing beyond the horizon
Ground combat and support
Treat Carl-Gustaf as a system, not only a launcher
Carl-Gustaf M4 is the entry point to a wider package of ammunition, fire-control devices, training and support. The M4 launcher weighs less than seven kilograms, while different rounds address armour, structures, smoke and illumination. Saab's support model adds training, maintenance, technical publications and spare-parts provisioning across the product lifecycle; the official HEAT 758 film shows how one anti-armour round is configured for modern threats.
- Handle the Carl-Gustaf M4 Launcher, ammunition, sights and operating features
- Read the English system brochure Weapon, ammunition, fire control, training and support in one guide
- Follow the support lifecycle Training, maintenance, technical publications and spare-parts provisioning
- ▶ VideoWatch HEAT 758 Official English Saab film on an evolved Carl-Gustaf anti-armour round
Naval platforms and systems
Bring submarines, surface ships and combat systems into Naval
From 1 April 2026, Saab's Naval business area combines the former Kockums operations with most of Naval Combat Systems. The portfolio spans A26 submarines with Stirling air-independent propulsion and a Multi-Mission Portal, Visby-class corvettes with an all-composite carbon-fibre hull, and surface craft for combat, mine-countermeasure and patrol roles. The reorganisation connects platforms with combat-management, fire-control, secure-communications and integration work under one management structure.
- Understand the new Naval organisation The April 2026 combination of platforms and naval combat systems
- Enter the A26 submarine Stirling propulsion, signature management and the Multi-Mission Portal
- Explore surface ships and boats Corvettes, combat boats and mine-countermeasure vessels
- See why Visby is different Composite construction, signature reduction and littoral roles
- ▶ VideoWatch Why Submarines? Official English-subtitled Saab film on the operational logic of submarines
Official profile sources: Organisation | Saab · Company in brief | Saab · History | Saab
Current 2026 update
2026 highlights
Agreement announced 21 July 2026 · 21 July 2026
Agreement announced 21 July 2026latest official update
4curated 2026 highlights
+10%2026 stock return · context only
First-half momentum
First-half sales rose 25.4% to SEK 44.6bn, while profit attributable to Saab shareholders increased 28.0% to SEK 3.58bn.
Largest export order
A SEK 47bn contract for three A26 submarines for Poland became Saab's largest export order; production capacity is being expanded in Karlskrona and Landskrona.
Unmanned airborne surveillance
Saab and General Atomics conducted test flights of what Saab describes as the world's first unmanned Airborne Early Warning system.
Gripen capacity in Brazil
A framework with Embraer could add assembly of 20 Gripen aircraft in Brazil alongside Saab's Linköping line; the definitive agreement was still intended for 2026.
Official 2026 sources: Saab interim report Q2 2026 · 17 July 2026 · Saab and Embraer strengthen partnership with agreement to expand Gripen production capacity · 21 July 2026
Annual record
Ranking history
Future editions add rows; they do not rewrite the 2026 record.
| Edition | Measurement period | Rank | Revenue growth | Net-income growth | Stock return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | FY2022–FY2025 | 19 | +94% | +197% | +434% |