Canadian Media Defensive Blue Chips

Sigma Healthcare

Market Cap: AU$31.5b

Operates as a retail pharmacy franchisor and pharmaceutical wholesale and distributor to community pharmacies primarily in Australia.

VERBUND

Market Cap: €19.0b

Generates, trades, and sells electricity in Austria, Germany, France, Romania, Spain, and Luxembourg.

Banco do Brasil

Market Cap: R$112.6b

Provides banking products and services for individuals, companies, and public sectors in Brazil and internationally.

Coles Group

Market Cap: AU$31.3b

Operates as a retailer in Australia.

Mega Financial Holding

Market Cap: NT$684.6b

Provides various financial services in Taiwan.

Straumann Holding

Market Cap: CHF 17.3b

Provides tooth replacement and orthodontic solutions in Switzerland, the United States, China, Germany, Brazil, Japan, France, and internationally.

Amkor Technology

Market Cap: US$21.4b

Provides outsourced semiconductor packaging and test services in the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.

Riyad Bank

Market Cap: ر.س79.9b

Provides banking and investment services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Global Unichip

Market Cap: NT$676.1b

Engages in the research and development, production, testing, and sale of embedded memory and logic components, analog components, cell libraries, and EDA tools for various IC applications.

Lattice Semiconductor

Market Cap: US$21.0b

Develops and sells semiconductor, silicon-based and silicon-enabling, evaluation boards, and development hardware products in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank PJSC

Market Cap: د.إ76.6b

Provides banking, financing, and investing services in the United Arab Emirates, rest of the Middle East, and internationally.

Legal & General Group

Market Cap: UK£15.7b

Provides various insurance products and services in the United Kingdom, the United States, and internationally.

Bunge Global

Market Cap: US$20.7b

Operates as an agribusiness and food company worldwide.

Telefônica Brasil

Market Cap: R$107.9b

Operates as a mobile telecommunications company in Brazil.

Heineken Holding

Market Cap: €18.1b

Engages in brewing and selling beer and cider in the Netherlands, Europe, the Americas, Africa & Middle East, Asia Pacific and internationally.

Unipol Assicurazioni

Market Cap: €18.1b

Provides insurance products and services primarily in Italy.

MPI

Market Cap: NT$656.0b

Manufactures, processes, repairs, imports/exports, and trades in semiconductor manufacturing and testing equipment in Taiwan, China, the United States, Singapore, Korea, and internationally.

STERIS

Market Cap: US$20.5b

Provides infection prevention products and services in the United States, Ireland, and internationally.

Grupo Cibest

Market Cap: Col$69.0t

Provides various banking products and services in Colombia and internationally.

Raiffeisen Bank International

Market Cap: €18.0b

Offers banking services to corporate, retail, and institutional customers.

ASPEED Technology

Market Cap: NT$648.1b

Operates as a fabless integrated circuit (IC) design company in Taiwan, China, the United States, and internationally.

China Minsheng Banking

Market Cap: CN¥137.9b

Provides banking products and services in the People's Republic of China.

Hana Financial Group

Market Cap: ₩31.4t

Through its subsidiaries, provides financial services in South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, Japan, China, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and internationally.

Tyson Foods

Market Cap: US$20.2b

Operates as a food company worldwide.

Arca Continental. de

Market Cap: Mex$353.4b

Produces, distributes, and sells soft drinks in Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, the United States, and internationally.

Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Services Group

Market Cap: ر.س75.6b

Provides private health and support services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Fortum Oyj

Market Cap: €17.7b

Engages in the generation and sale of electricity and heat to private and business customers in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, and internationally.

Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP

Market Cap: R$104.7b

Provides basic and environmental sanitation services in the São Paulo State, Brazil.

Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam

Market Cap: ₫526.4t

Provides banking products and services in Vietnam.

National Silicon Industry Group

Market Cap: CN¥135.7b

National Silicon Industry Group Co., Ltd.

Saudi Energy

Market Cap: ر.س75.0b

Generates, transmits, and distributes electricity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine FactoryLtd

Market Cap: CN¥135.2b

Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine Factory Co.,Ltd.

Bank Mandiri (Persero)

Market Cap: Rp355.3t

Provides various banking products and services to individuals and businesses in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Timor Leste, Shanghai, England, and the Cayman Islands.

Banco de Chile

Market Cap: CL$18.2t

Provides commercial banking services in Chile.

SiTime

Market Cap: US$19.7b

Engages in the design, development, and sale of silicon timing systems solutions in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United States, Singapore, and internationally.

Cellnex Telecom

Market Cap: €17.3b

Engages in the management of terrestrial telecommunications infrastructures in France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, and Austria.