Our Top 10 holdings, are our favourite companies. They typically have a wide moat, and are likely to earn excess profits over the long run. They have all scored very highly in our factor based selection methodology.
(Note these are not investment recommendations)
Top 10
Company: Microsoft Corp
Sector: Information Technology
Market Cap: $1620bn
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: Tencent Holdings Ltd
Sector: Communication Services
Market Cap: $728bn
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: Novo Nordisk
Sector: Health Care
Market Cap: $159bn
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: S&P Global Inc
Sector: Financials
Market Cap: $80bn
Comment: S&P Global provides data and benchmarks to capital and commodity market participants. It is also the largest credit ratings agency in the world. Other segments include Market Intelligence providing desktop tools, analytics and other data solutions to investment banks, corporations, and other entities.
Company: Facebook Inc
Sector: Communication Services
Market Cap: $716bn
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: Adobe Inc
Sector: Information Technology
Market Cap: $233bn
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: $1,233bn
Comment: Alphabet is a holding company with Google, its largest subsidiary generating around 99% of its revenue, predominantly from online advertising. Google Play, YouTube, together with hardware products such as Nest, the Pixel phone also contribute to its revenue.
Company: Biogen Inc
Sector: Biotechnology
Market Cap: $38bn
Comment: Biogen develops and manufactures therapies focusing on neurology, oncology and immunology. Specific focus addressing diseases such as multiple sclerosis, non-hodgkin's lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis, alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Company: Accenture PLC
Sector: Financial
Market Cap: $173bn
Comment: Accenture is a leading global provider of management and technology services and solutions. It provides management consulting, strategy, digital and other operational services to a diversified spectrum of clients in 51 countries.
Company: Qualys Inc
Sector: Information Technology
Market Cap: $4bn
Comment: Qualys Inc is a provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions to enterprises and government entities. The company derives revenue from subscriptions to its cloud-based solutions suite of around 20 applications.