Maltese Software Defensive Blue Chips

HANMI Semiconductor

Market Cap: ₩17.7t

Manufactures and sells semiconductor equipment in South Korea and internationally.

Mowi

Market Cap: NOK 122.8b

A seafood company, produces and sells Atlantic salmon products worldwide.

Kirin Holdings Company

Market Cap: JP¥1.9t

Engages in food and beverages, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceuticals, and health science businesses.

First Horizon

Market Cap: US$12.1b

Operates as the bank holding company for First Horizon Bank that provides various financial services.

Brown-Forman

Market Cap: US$12.1b

Manufactures, distills, bottles, imports, exports, markets, and sells a variety of alcohol beverages.

SinoPac Financial Holdings

Market Cap: NT$379.7b

Through its subsidiaries, provides banking, securities, investment, leasing, and venture capital services worldwide.

Align Technology

Market Cap: US$12.0b

Provides Invisalign clear aligners, Vivera retainers, and iTero intraoral scanners and services in the United States, Switzerland, and internationally.

iA Financial

Market Cap: CA$16.7b

Provides insurance and wealth management services for individual and group basis in Canada and the United States.

Taiwan Cooperative Financial Holding

Market Cap: NT$377.1b

Provides commercial banking, insurance, securities, bills finance, venture capital, asset management, and investment trust services in Taiwan.

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise

Market Cap: ₹1.1t

Provides healthcare services in India.

BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings

Market Cap: US$11.9b

Operates membership warehouse clubs on the eastern half of the United States.

Sejahteraraya Anugrahjaya

Market Cap: Rp198.0t

Provides medical services in Indonesia.

T&D Holdings

Market Cap: JP¥1.9t

Through its subsidiaries, provides insurance products and services in Japan.

BAWAG Group

Market Cap: €10.1b

Operates as a holding company for BAWAG P.S.K.

Carrefour

Market Cap: €10.1b

Operates as a food retailer in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Comerica

Market Cap: US$11.8b

Provides financial services in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Assurant

Market Cap: US$11.8b

Provides protection services to connected devices, homes, and automobiles in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.

Maplebear

Market Cap: US$11.7b

Maplebear Inc., doing business as Instacart, engages in the provision of online grocery shopping services to households in North America.

Severn Trent

Market Cap: UK£8.7b

Provides water and wastewater services in the United Kingdom.

Saputo

Market Cap: CA$16.2b

Produces, markets, and distributes dairy products in Canada, the United States, Australia, Argentina, and the United Kingdom.

BKW

Market Cap: CHF 9.3b

An international energy and infrastructure company, plans, builds, and operates infrastructure to produce and supply energy to businesses, households, and the public sector in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France, and internationally.

Nova

Market Cap: US$11.6b

Engages in the design, development, production, and sale of process control systems used in the manufacture of semiconductors in Taiwan, the United States, China, Korea, and internationally.

Tele2

Market Cap: SEK 106.5b

Provides fixed and mobile connectivity and entertainment services in Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

Cochlear

Market Cap: AU$17.2b

Provides implantable hearing solutions for children and adults worldwide.

Ooredoo Q.P.S.C

Market Cap: ر.ق42.1b

Provides telecommunications services in Qatar, rest of the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa region.

Dino Polska

Market Cap: zł41.5b

Operates a network of medium-sized grocery supermarkets under the Dino brand in Poland.

Japan Post Insurance

Market Cap: JP¥1.8t

Provides life insurance products and services in Japan.

Alibaba Health Information Technology

Market Cap: HK$89.7b

An investment holding company, engages in the pharmaceutical direct sales, pharmaceutical e-commerce platform, and healthcare and digital services businesses in Mainland China and Hong Kong.

Aegon

Market Cap: €9.9b

Provides insurance, pensions, retirement, and asset management services in the Americas, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and internationally.

Hong Leong Bank Berhad

Market Cap: RM 46.7b

Operates as a financial services company in Malaysia and internationally.

China Resources Microelectronics

Market Cap: CN¥80.3b

Engages in the manufacture and sale of semiconductors in China and internationally.

HKT Trust and HKT

Market Cap: HK$89.1b

An investment holding company, engages in the provision of technology, and satellite-and network-based telecommunications and related services in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and internationally.

Industrial Bank of Korea

Market Cap: ₩16.5t

Operates as a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing bank in Korea and internationally.

VeriSilicon Microelectronics (Shanghai)

Market Cap: CN¥80.1b

Provides platform-based custom silicon and semiconductor IP licensing services in China and internationally.

Hangzhou Changchuan TechnologyLtd

Market Cap: CN¥79.9b

Researches and develops, produces, and sells integrated circuit equipment and high-frequency communication materials in China and internationally.

CPFL Energia

Market Cap: R$61.4b

Through its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company in Brazil.