All GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Subindustries

Weijing Jay Lin
3 min readJul 13, 2023

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) is an industry taxonomy developed in 1999 by MSCI and Standard & Poor’s (S&P) for use by the global financial community. The GICS structure consists of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, 74 industries and 163 sub-industries into which S&P has categorized all major public companies.

Here is the list of GICS subindustries.

Oil & Gas Drilling

Oil & Gas Equipment & Services

Integrated Oil & Gas

Oil & Gas Exploration & Production

Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing

Oil & Gas Storage & Transportation

Coal & Consumable Fuels

Commodity Chemicals

Diversified Chemicals

Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals

Industrial Gases

Specialty Chemicals

Construction Materials

Metal, Glass & Plastic Containers

Paper & Plastic Packaging Products & Materials

Aluminum

Diversified Metals & Mining

Copper

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Weijing Jay Lin

A software engineer entrepreneur in San Francisco Bay Area.