Japanese Energy Defensive Blue Chips

Standard Chartered

Market Cap: UK£31.8b

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

Rocket Companies

Market Cap: US$42.6b

Provides spanning mortgage, real estate, and personal finance services in the United States and Canada.

Emirates NBD Bank PJSC

Market Cap: د.إ156.3b

Provides corporate, institutional, retail, treasury, and Islamic banking services.

Heidelberg Materials

Market Cap: €36.0b

Produces and distributes cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, and asphalt worldwide.

Target

Market Cap: US$42.3b

Operates as a general merchandise retailer in the United States.

Orange

Market Cap: €36.0b

Operates as a telecommunications operator in France and internationally.

ACWA Power

Market Cap: ر.س158.6b

Engages in the investment, development, operation, and maintenance of power generation, water desalination, and green hydrogen production plants in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

UltraTech Cement

Market Cap: ₹3.7t

Engages in the manufacture and sale of clinker, cement, ready mix concrete, and related products in India, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sri Lanka.

Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC

Market Cap: د.إ153.2b

Provides telecommunications services, media, and related equipment in the United Arab Emirates and internationally.

Monolithic Power Systems

Market Cap: US$41.5b

Designs, develops, markets, and sells semiconductor-based power electronics solutions for the storage and computing, automotive, enterprise data, consumer, communications, and industrial markets in the United States, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan, and internationally.

National Bank of Canada

Market Cap: CA$57.2b

Provides financial services to individuals, businesses, institutional clients, and governments in Canada and internationally.

Muyuan Foods

Market Cap: CN¥293.0b

Operates in the hog industry in China.

Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics

Market Cap: CN¥291.5b

Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Market Cap: €34.4b

Produces, distributes, and sells a range of non-alcoholic ready to drink beverages.

Public Service Enterprise Group

Market Cap: US$40.5b

Through its subsidiaries, operates in electric and gas utility, and nuclear generation businesses in the United States.

ResMed

Market Cap: US$40.4b

Develops, manufactures, distributes, and markets medical devices and cloud-based software applications to diagnose, treat, and manage respiratory disorders in the United States and internationally.

Sysco

Market Cap: US$39.4b

Through its subsidiaries, engages in the marketing and distribution of various food and related products to the foodservice or food-away-from-home industry in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and internationally.

Alcon

Market Cap: CHF 31.2b

Researches, develops, manufactures, distributes, and sells eye care products worldwide.

Fubon Financial Holding

Market Cap: NT$1.2t

Provides various financial services in Taiwan, Asia, and internationally.

Fairfax Financial Holdings

Market Cap: CA$53.8b

Through its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, and investment management services in the United States, Canada, the Middle East, Asia, and internationally.

Vulcan Materials

Market Cap: US$39.0b

Produces and supplies construction aggregates in the United States.

DNB Bank

Market Cap: NOK 387.2b

Provides financial services to individuals and businesses in Norway and internationally.

QNB Bank

Market Cap: ₺1.6t

Provides various banking products and services in Turkey.

Tesco

Market Cap: UK£28.6b

Operates as a grocery retailer in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.

CBZ Holdings

Market Cap: US$5.0b

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

Federal Home Loan Mortgage

Market Cap: US$38.3b

Operates in the secondary mortgage market in the United States.

Swisscom

Market Cap: CHF 30.3b

Provides telecommunication services primarily in Switzerland, Italy, and internationally.

Erste Group Bank

Market Cap: €32.3b

Provides a range of banking and other financial services to retail, corporate, and public sector customers.

China Unicom (Hong Kong)

Market Cap: HK$294.4b

An investment holding company, provides telecommunications and related value-added services in the People’s Republic of China.

Hershey

Market Cap: US$37.6b

Engages in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products and pantry items in the United States and internationally.

Martin Marietta Materials

Market Cap: US$37.5b

A natural resource-based building materials company, supplies aggregates and heavy-side building materials to the construction industry in the United States and internationally.

FBC Holdings

Market Cap: US$4.8b

Through its subsidiaries, provides commercial and wholesale banking, mortgage financing, micro lending, reinsurance, short-term insurance, and stockbroking services in Zimbabwe.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (PJSC)

Market Cap: د.إ137.0b

Generates, transmits, and distributes electricity for residential, commercial, industrial, and government customers primarily in Dubai.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken

Market Cap: SEK 348.1b

Provides corporate, retail, investment, and private banking services.

Humana

Market Cap: US$37.0b

Provides medical and specialty insurance products in the United States.

Hartford Insurance Group

Market Cap: US$37.0b

Provides insurance and financial services to individual and business customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally.