World Economic Forum

====Corporate participants====
Next to individual participants, the World Economic Forum maintains a dense network of corporate partners that can apply for different partnership ranks within the forum.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.weforum.org/partners/|title=Partners|website=World Economic Forum|access-date=21 July 2021|archive-date=21 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721075341/https://www.weforum.org/partners|url-status=live}}</ref> For 2019, [[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] has identified a total of 436 listed corporates that participated in the annual meeting while measuring a stock underperformance by the Davos participants of around −10% versus the S&P 500 during the same year. Drivers are among others an overrepresentation of financial companies and an underrepresentation of fast-growing health care and information technology businesses at the conference.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/davos-s-global-elite-are-laggards-in-stock-market-performance|title=Davos's Global Elite Are Laggards in Stock-Market Performance|first=Eddie|last=van der Walt|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=23 January 2020|access-date=7 June 2020|archive-date=6 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506165535/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/davos-s-global-elite-are-laggards-in-stock-market-performance|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Economist'' had found similar results in an earlier study, showing an underperformance of Davos participants against both the MSCI World Index and the S&P 500 between 2009 and 2014.<ref name="Econ-Magic" />