Are Daikin and Trane the same?

Are Daikin and Trane the same is no, they are separate competing companies with different ownership, though both are major global HVAC manufacturers and Daikin owns Goodman which competes with Trane. Daikin is Japanese company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, founded in 1924, and is world's largest HVAC manufacturer by revenue, owning Daikin, Goodman, and Amana brands in US, with manufacturing plants in Houston, Texas for Goodman and Daikin, and offering 16 to 20 SEER ACs and 96 to 98 percent AFUE furnaces at value pricing of 3,000 to 6,500 dollars installed, with service rates around 10 to 13 percent. Trane is American brand owned by Trane Technologies plc, headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, founded in 1913 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, owning Trane and American Standard brands, with manufacturing in Tyler, Texas and Trenton, New Jersey, offering premium ACs like XV20i at 22 SEER and furnaces like XC95m at 97.3 percent AFUE, costing 4,500 to 9,000 dollars installed, with service rates around 8 to 10 percent. Daikin and Trane are not same company, not same parent, and compete directly. Daikin acquired Goodman in 2012 for 3.7 billion dollars, while Trane was acquired by Ingersoll Rand in 2008 and spun off as Trane Technologies in 2020. Both offer variable speed technology but use different designs.