Japanese Utilities Defensive Blue Chips

Regions Financial

Market Cap: US$24.4b

A financial holding company, provides various banking and related products and services to individual and corporate customers.

Fresenius SE KGaA

Market Cap: €21.0b

A health care company, provides products and services for chronically ill patients in North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa.

First Citizens BancShares

Market Cap: US$24.3b

Operates as the holding company for First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company that provides retail and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses, and professionals in the United States and internationally.

Dollar General

Market Cap: US$24.3b

A discount retailer, provides various merchandise products in the southern, southwestern, midwestern, and eastern United States.

Banco de Crédito del Perú

Market Cap: S/81.7b

Provides banking products and services to individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), and companies in Peru, Panama, and the United States.

Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group

Market Cap: CN¥162.6b

Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd.

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero)

Market Cap: Rp429.1t

Provides various banking products and services in Indonesia and internationally.

Aeon

Market Cap: JP¥3.8t

Operates in the retail industry in Japan, China, ASEAN countries, and internationally.

Terna

Market Cap: €20.5b

Provides electricity transmission and dispatching services in Italy, other Euro-area countries, and internationally.

KeyCorp

Market Cap: US$23.7b

Operates as the holding company for KeyBank National Association that provides various retail and commercial banking products and services in the United States.

TS Financial Holding

Market Cap: NT$751.0b

Provides various financial products and services.

CLP Holdings

Market Cap: HK$185.4b

An investment holding company, engages in the generation, retail, transmission, and distribution of electricity in Hong Kong, Mainland China, India, Thailand, Taiwan, and Australia.

Principal Financial Group

Market Cap: US$23.6b

Provides retirement, asset management, and insurance products and services to businesses, individuals, and institutional clients worldwide.

Technoprobe

Market Cap: €20.1b

Produces and sells electronic circuits in Italy, Asia, the United States, and rest of Europe.

VERBUND

Market Cap: €20.1b

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

Public Bank Berhad

Market Cap: RM 93.8b

Provides banking products and services.

Mediobanca Banca di Credito Finanziario

Market Cap: €19.9b

Provides various banking products and services in Italy, Other European countries, the United States, Asia, and internationally.

BIWIN Storage Technology

Market Cap: CN¥154.4b

Engages in the research and development, design, packaging, testing, production, and sales of semiconductor memory.

Markel Group

Market Cap: US$22.8b

Engages in the insurance business in the United States, the United Kingdom, Bermuda, Germany, rest of the European Union, Canada, and the Asia Pacific.

China Minsheng Banking

Market Cap: CN¥154.1b

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

Coles Group

Market Cap: AU$32.1b

Operates as a retailer in Australia.

Quest Diagnostics

Market Cap: US$22.6b

Provides diagnostic testing and services in the United States.

HANMI Semiconductor

Market Cap: ₩34.2t

Manufactures and sells semiconductor equipment in South Korea and internationally.

Loews

Market Cap: US$22.2b

Through its subsidiaries, provides commercial property and casualty insurance in the United States and internationally.

Coca-Cola HBC

Market Cap: UK£16.5b

Engages in the production, sale, and distribution of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages under franchise in Switzerland, West Coast of Ireland, Central and Eastern Europe, Nigeria, and internationally.

Labcorp Holdings

Market Cap: US$22.0b

Provides laboratory services.

Cellnex Telecom

Market Cap: €19.0b

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.

ASPEED Technology

Market Cap: NT$697.3b

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

NN Group

Market Cap: €19.0b

A financial services company, provides life and non-life insurance products in the Netherlands and internationally.

Bank Mandiri (Persero)

Market Cap: Rp391.6t

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

Coca-Cola FEMSA. de

Market Cap: US$21.9b

A franchise bottler, produces, markets, sells, and distributes Coca-Cola trademarked beverages in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.

ACM Research (Shanghai)

Market Cap: CN¥146.9b

Engages in the research, development, production, and sale of semiconductor equipment in China.

Banco do Brasil

Market Cap: R$110.8b

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

China Tower

Market Cap: HK$169.9b

Provides telecommunication tower infrastructure services in the People's Republic of China.

Bank of Nanjing

Market Cap: CN¥146.3b

Engages in the provision of various financial products and services in China.

Fortum Oyj

Market Cap: €18.6b

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