Bangladeshi Automobiles Defensive Blue Chips

Banco Santander

Market Cap: €175.8b

Provides various financial products and services to individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises, large corporations, and public entities worldwide.

Toronto-Dominion Bank

Market Cap: CA$277.2b

Provides various financial products and services in Canada, the United States, and internationally.

CBZ Holdings

Market Cap: US$25.2b

Provides various banking and financial products and services to retail and corporate customers in Zimbabwe.

Verizon Communications

Market Cap: US$191.6b

Through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of communications, technology, information, and streaming products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental entities worldwide.

PepsiCo

Market Cap: US$191.4b

Engages in the manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of various beverages and convenient foods worldwide.

Allianz

Market Cap: €162.1b

Provides property-casualty insurance, life/health insurance, and asset management products and services worldwide.

T-Mobile US

Market Cap: US$185.9b

Provides wireless communications services in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.

Abbott Laboratories

Market Cap: US$182.7b

Abbott Laboratories, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells health care products worldwide.

Analog Devices

Market Cap: US$178.6b

Engages in the design, manufacture, testing, and marketing of integrated circuits (ICs), software, and subsystems products in the United States, rest of North and South America, Europe, Japan, China, and rest of Asia.

MediaTek

Market Cap: NT$5.7t

Engages in the research, development, production, manufacture, and marketing of multimedia integrated circuits (ICs) in Taiwan, rest of Asia, and internationally.

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Market Cap: €148.3b

Produces and sells beer in North America, Middle Americas, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific.

DBS Group Holdings

Market Cap: S$210.3b

Provides commercial banking and financial services in Singapore, Hong Kong, rest of Greater China, South and Southeast Asia, and internationally.

QUALCOMM

Market Cap: US$161.9b

Engages in the development and commercialization of foundational technologies for the wireless industry worldwide.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group

Market Cap: JP¥25.9t

Provides banking, leasing, securities, consumer finance, and other services in Japan, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania.

Marvell Technology

Market Cap: US$160.5b

Provides data infrastructure semiconductor solutions and spanning the data center core to network edge in the United States, Argentina, China, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and internationally.

Kioxia Holdings

Market Cap: JP¥25.5t

Engages in research, development, manufacturing, sales, and other services of memory and related products for solid state drives (SSDs) and storage and smart devices in Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia.

AT&T

Market Cap: US$159.0b

Provides telecommunications and technology services worldwide.

Tokyo Electron

Market Cap: JP¥25.2t

Develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor production equipment in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, North America, Europe, and internationally.

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

Market Cap: €132.6b

Provides various financial services in Spain, Mexico, Turkey, South America, Europe, the United States, and Asia.

China Merchants Bank

Market Cap: CN¥1.0t

Provides various banking products and services.

Deutsche Telekom

Market Cap: €130.0b

Provides integrated telecommunication services worldwide.

China Life Insurance

Market Cap: HK$1.2t

Operates as a life insurance company in the People’s Republic of China.

Advantest

Market Cap: JP¥23.5t

Manufactures and sells semiconductors, component test systems, and mechatronics-related products in Japan, rest of Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China

Market Cap: CN¥961.9b

Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.

UniCredit

Market Cap: €122.3b

Provides commercial banking services in Italy, Germany, Central Europe, and Eastern Europe.

BNP Paribas

Market Cap: €120.2b

Provides various banking and financial products and services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific.

Chubb

Market Cap: US$135.1b

Provides insurance and reinsurance products worldwide.

CVS Health

Market Cap: US$134.3b

Provides health solutions in the United States.

Stryker

Market Cap: US$133.4b

Operates as a medical technology company in the United States and internationally.

British American Tobacco

Market Cap: UK£98.6b

Provides tobacco and nicotine products to consumers in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Canada, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Central Asia, Caucasus, and Africa.

Intesa Sanpaolo

Market Cap: €113.0b

Engages in the provision of various financial products and services in Italy, Central/Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Bharti Airtel

Market Cap: ₹12.0t

Operates as a telecommunications company in India and internationally.

Bank of Montreal

Market Cap: CA$175.3b

Provides diversified financial services primarily in North America.

Intuitive Surgical

Market Cap: US$124.7b

Develops, manufactures, and markets products that enable physicians and healthcare providers to enhance the quality of and access to minimally invasive care in the United States and internationally.

Mizuho Financial Group

Market Cap: JP¥19.9t

Engages in banking, trust banking, securities, and other businesses related to financial services in Japan, the Americas, Europe, Asia/Oceania, and internationally.

Progressive

Market Cap: US$124.0b

Operates as an insurance company in the United States.