Top 10

Company: Adobe Inc

Sector: Information Technology

Market Cap: $220bn

Comment: Adobe develops, markets and supports content creation, document management, digital marketing and advertising software and services to creative professionals and marketers. Digital media is the largest of its 3 business segments including products such as Photoshop and Illustrator.

Company: Alphabet Inc 

Sector: Communication Services

Market Cap: $1387bn

Comment: Alphabet is a holding company of Google, the world's largest search engine. Through its subsidiaries it provides web-based search, advertisements, maps, software applications, hardware products as well as cloud services. It also owns YouTube.

Company: Autozone Inc

Sector: Consumer Discretionary

Market Cap: $31bn

Comment: AutoZone is the premier seller of aftermarket automotive parts, tools, and accessories to do-it-yourself customers in the
United States. It has nearly 6 thousand stores in the US, with
more than 620 stores in Mexico and around 35 in Brazil.

Company: Expediators Int of Washington

Sector: Industrials

Market Cap: $21bn

Comment: Expeditors is a global logistics company, providing air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, marine insurance and other logistical services. Headquartered in Seattle, it operates from over 400 facilities in around 100 countries.  

Company: Facebook Inc

Sector: Communication Services

Market Cap: $740bn

Comment: Facebook is the world’s largest online social network, with 2.5 billion monthly active users. It generates revenue by serving 7 million advertisers. Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp are the drivers of rapid revenue growth.  

Company: Lowe's

Sector: Consumer Discretionary

Market Cap: $118bn

Comment: Lowe's is an American retail company specializing in home improvement. It serves approximately 20 million customers a week in the United States and Canada. Lowe’s and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Its online presence has recently seen triple digit sales growth.  

Company: Microsoft Corp

Sector: Information Technology

Market Cap: $1745bn

Comment: Microsoft develops, licenses and supports consumer and enterprise software products. It is well known for its Windows operating systems and Office productivity suite. Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligence Cloud, and Personal Computing are the three main business segments. Through acquisitions, Microsoft also owns Xamarin, LinkedIn, and GitHub.

Company: Novo Nordisk

Sector: Health Care

Market Cap: $167bn

Comment: A global healthcare company with 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care, it has around 50% market share of the global insulin market. The company also has leading positions within haemophilia care, growth hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy.

Company: Tencent Holdings Ltd

Sector: Communication Services

Market Cap: $894bn

Comment: Tencent is a holding company for multiple internet and communications related services.  It’s the world’s largest video game seller and is also the dominant instant messaging service provider (WeChat and QQ) to the Chinese market. Through other subsidiaries it also provides music, e-commerce, payments systems, entertainment, AI and technology solutions.

Company: Thermo Fisher Scientific

Sector: Health Care

Market Cap: $181bn

Comment: Thermo Fisher Scientific is an American provider of scientific instrumentation, consumables, software and services to healthcare, life science, and other laboratories. It has over 80,000 employees globally and has annual revenues of over $30bn.