Fortune: The Price of Profitability

Inside the 2026 Fortune 500 Europe, a $15.5 trillion snapshot of the continent’s corporate economy, this session unpacks why Europe’s largest companies continue to trade at a steep discount to their US peers. Expect fresh data on falling European margins versus rising American ones, growth that evaporates once currency effects are stripped out, and a valuation gap only partly explained by profitability – pointing to deeper forces at play.