How to Leverage Global Capital Returns in 2026

Expenses by foreign direct financiers to acquire, establish, or broaden U.S. organizations totaled $232.2 billion in 2025, according to preliminary stats released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Expenses increased $76.8 billion, or 49.5 percent, from 2024 levels. As in previous years, acquisitions of existing U.S. companies represented most of the expenditures.

businesses were $4.6 billion, and expenditures to expand existing foreign-owned services were $9.2 billion. Planned overall expenses, that include both first-year and organized future expenditures, were $284.5 billion. Work in 2025 at newly acquired, developed, or broadened foreign-owned services in the United States was 213,100 employees. By industry, expenditures for new direct investment were biggest in publishing markets ($50.7 billion), followed by chemicals making ($45.4 billion) and plastics and rubber products manufacturing ($19.0 billion).

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The nation with the largest investment was Japan ($50.5 billion), followed by Germany ($26.7 billion) and Canada ($23.5 billion).1 By area, Europe contributed the most new financial investment, $116.6 billion, or 50.2 percent of all brand-new investment in 2025. Asia and Pacific was the second-largest investing region, with $71.9 billion in expenses.

organization or to broaden an existing foreign-owned U.S. businesswere $13.8 billion in 2025. By industry, greenfield expenditures were largest in transportation and warehousing ($3.6 billion), computer systems and electronic devices products production ($2.0 billion), and chemicals production ($1.8 billion). By area, investors from Asia and Pacific contributed the greatest dollar worth of greenfield expenses ($8.3 billion), led by Australia ($3.0 billion), South Korea ($2.2 billion), and Japan ($1.7 billion).

Planned overall expenses for greenfield financial investment started in 2025, which include both first-year and planned future expenses, were $66.1 billion. Total planned employment, which consists of the current employment of obtained enterprises, the prepared employment of newly established service enterprises when fully operational, and the planned work associated with expansions, was 232,400.

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California (37,200) was the state with the biggest current work resulting from new investment, followed by Illinois (17,600) and Texas (16,500).

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1. Based upon a contrast of the S&P 500 Index to the Bloomberg United States Convertible Money Pay Bond > $250mn Index. The S&P 500 is a stock exchange index weighted by market capitalization that is comprised of 500 of the biggest public companies in the United States. The Bloomberg United States Convertible Cash Pay Bond > $250mn Index tracks the efficiency of United States dollar-denominated cash-pay convertible securities with minimum amounts impressive of a minimum of $250 million.

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