Schneider Electric SE

Is Schneider Electric publicly traded?
Yes. Schneider Electric SE trades on Euronext Paris under the ticker SU and is a CAC 40 component. U.S. investors use the OTC ticker SBGSY.

Who owns Schneider Electric?
It is a public company owned by international institutional investors and other shareholders, with no controlling owner. Olivier Blum is CEO and Jean-Pascal Tricoire is chairman.

Where is Schneider Electric headquartered?
The company is headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It was founded in Le Creusot in 1836.

What does Schneider Electric make?
It makes electrical distribution equipment, switchgear, circuit breakers, UPS and data center power systems under APC, building controls, industrial automation products, and software including EcoStruxure and AVEVA.

How much revenue does Schneider Electric make?
The company reported record fiscal 2025 revenue of 40,152 million euros, up 8.9 percent organically, with adjusted EBITA of 7,520 million euros and free cash flow of 4,635 million euros.

What is Schneider Electric's role in AI?
Its electrical distribution, UPS, and power management equipment is a core part of data center construction, making it a major supplier to the AI computing buildout and the largest driver of its recent revenue growth.

Brothers Adolphe and Joseph-Eugene Schneider founded the company in 1836 at Le Creusot, France, as a foundry and machine works. Through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Schneider et Cie was a French industrial colossus, producing locomotives, steel, and armaments including the artillery of two world wars.

The post-war decades forced reinvention. The company moved out of heavy industry and into electrical equipment, a pivot completed through a series of major acquisitions: Telemecanique in 1988, Square D in 1991, Merlin Gerin in 1992, and Modicon, which carried the programmable controller lineage. By 1999 it had renamed itself Schneider Electric.

The twenty-first century added the businesses that define it now. The 2007 purchase of APC for $6.1 billion made it a leader in data center power protection. Investments in building management, critical power, and software followed, including the EcoStruxure digital architecture that ties its products together.

The largest recent deal was the takeover of AVEVA. Schneider had held a controlling stake since 2018 and bought out the remainder in January 2023 at a valuation near 10 billion pounds, making industrial software a third leg of the business alongside energy management and automation.

Leadership transitioned in November 2024 when Olivier Blum, a three-decade Schneider veteran, replaced Peter Herweck as CEO. Under Blum the company posted record 2025 results on data center demand, with North American revenue up 15 percent organically.

Schneider runs the most decorated sustainability program in its sector. Its Schneider Sustainability Impact framework tracks quarterly progress on climate, resources, trust, equality, and local commitments, and the 2021-2025 cycle closed with a score of 8.86.

The company has externally validated science-based targets, a commitment to net-zero across its value chain by 2050, and operational carbon goals it reports against publicly. Corporate Knights named it the world's most sustainable corporation on the Global 100 in 2021 and again in 2025, and it holds top-tier CDP climate ratings. Its Access to Energy program extends electricity products and training to off-grid communities.

Beyond the Corporate Knights Global 100 rankings, Schneider appears regularly on the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies list, in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, and on employer rankings for equality and inclusion across its global workforce.

Schneider exited Russia following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, absorbing the associated writedown. It has faced European competition scrutiny of electrical equipment markets in the past and periodic union disputes at French and international plants.

Its sustainability leadership is broadly accepted, though critics note that reporting against self-set frameworks differs from independent verification of absolute emissions across a value chain dominated by product use.