Romanian Software Defensive Blue Chips

Truist Financial

Market Cap: US$62.3b

A financial services company, provides banking and trust services in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States.

National Bank of Canada

Market Cap: CA$85.2b

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

Nongfu Spring

Market Cap: HK$475.1b

Produces and sells packaged drinking water and beverage products primarily in Mainland China.

Cencora

Market Cap: US$60.5b

Cencora, Inc. sources and distributes pharmaceutical products in the United States and internationally.

MetLife

Market Cap: US$60.4b

A financial services company, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management services worldwide.

KBC Group

Market Cap: €51.0b

Provides banking, insurance, and asset management services in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia.

Teradyne

Market Cap: US$59.4b

Engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of automated test systems and robotics products in the United States, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

First Abu Dhabi Bank P.J.S.C

Market Cap: د.إ215.6b

Provides various banking products and services in the United Arab Emirates, Europe, Arab countries, the Americas, Asia, and internationally.

Alimentation Couche-Tard

Market Cap: CA$80.8b

Operates and licenses convenience stores in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Saudi Telecom

Market Cap: ر.س219.6b

Provides telecommunications, information, media, and digital payment services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and internationally.

Aflac

Market Cap: US$58.4b

Through its subsidiaries, provides supplemental health and life insurance products.

Great-West Lifeco

Market Cap: CA$80.3b

Engages in the life and health insurance, retirement savings, wealth and asset management, and reinsurance businesses in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Industrial Bank

Market Cap: CN¥384.5b

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

Singapore Telecommunications

Market Cap: S$72.6b

Provides telecommunication services in Singapore, Australia, and internationally.

NXP Semiconductors

Market Cap: US$57.0b

Provides semiconductor products in the United States, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, the Netherlands, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and internationally.

Fubon Financial Holding

Market Cap: NT$1.8t

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

Sempra

Market Cap: US$56.0b

Engages in the regulated utilities business in the United States and Mexico.

Nanya Technology

Market Cap: NT$1.8t

Research, develops, manufactures, and sells semiconductor products in Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, China, the United States, Thailand, Germany, Singapore, Poland and internationally.

Life Insurance Corporation of India

Market Cap: ₹5.3t

Provides life insurance products in India, Fiji, Mauritius, and the United Kingdom.

Cardinal Health

Market Cap: US$54.6b

Operates as a healthcare services and products company in the United States and internationally.

Erste Group Bank

Market Cap: €46.2b

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

HOYA

Market Cap: JP¥8.4t

A med-tech company, provides high-tech and medical products in the Japan, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and internationally.

Edwards Lifesciences

Market Cap: US$53.2b

Provides products and technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular diseases in the United States, Europe, Japan, and internationally.

E.ON

Market Cap: €45.4b

Operates as an energy company in Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands, rest of Europe, and internationally.

Emirates NBD Bank PJSC

Market Cap: د.إ194.5b

Engages in the provision of corporate, institutional, retail, treasury, and Islamic banking services.

United Overseas Bank

Market Cap: S$66.4b

Provides banking products and services worldwide.

Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment China

Market Cap: CN¥350.1b

Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc.

Siemens Healthineers

Market Cap: €44.5b

Through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and sells a range of diagnostic and therapeutic products and services to healthcare providers in Germany, the United States, rest of Europe, CIS, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China.

Swiss Re

Market Cap: CHF 41.2b

Provides reinsurance, insurance, other insurance-based forms of risk transfer, and other insurance-related services worldwide.

Loblaw Companies

Market Cap: CA$71.2b

A food and pharmacy company, provides grocery, pharmacy and healthcare services, health and beauty products, apparel, general merchandise, financial services, and wireless mobile products and services in Canada and the United States.

Emirates Telecommunications Group Company PJSC

Market Cap: د.إ188.9b

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

Diageo

Market Cap: UK£37.6b

Engages in the production, marketing, and distribution of alcoholic beverages in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, and Africa.

Cerebras Systems

Market Cap: US$51.2b

Operates as an artificial intelligence infrastructure company.

Becton Dickinson

Market Cap: US$51.1b

Develops, manufactures, and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products for healthcare institutions, physicians, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical industry, and the general public worldwide.

Entergy

Market Cap: US$50.4b

Engages in the production and retail distribution of electricity in the United States.

Orange

Market Cap: €42.9b

Operates as a telecommunications operator in France and internationally.