South African Tech Defensive Blue Chips

Great Eastern Holdings

Market Cap: S$14.9b

An investment holding company, provides insurance products in Singapore, Malaysia, and rest of Asia.

GAIL (India)

Market Cap: ₹1.1t

Operates as a natural gas processing and distribution company in India and internationally.

Webster Financial

Market Cap: US$11.6b

Operates as the bank holding company for Webster Bank, National Association that provides various financial products and services to businesses, individuals, and families in the United States.

Taiwan Cooperative Financial Holding

Market Cap: NT$366.9b

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

KT&G

Market Cap: ₩17.2t

Engages in the production, distribution, and sale of tobacco products in South Korea, Europe, and internationally.

Indus Towers

Market Cap: ₹1.1t

A telecom infrastructure company, engages in the operation and maintenance of wireless communication towers and related infrastructures for various telecom service providers in India, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia.

Caixa Seguridade Participações

Market Cap: R$57.1b

Provides insurance products in Brazil and internationally.

Almarai

Market Cap: ر.س43.0b

Operates as an integrated consumer food and beverage company in Saudi Arabia, other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and internationally.

Guangdong Haid Group

Market Cap: CN¥78.0b

Research, develops, designs, produces, sells, and services animal feed products in China and internationally.

Smithfield Foods

Market Cap: US$11.4b

Produces various packaged meats and fresh pork products in the United States and internationally.

iA Financial

Market Cap: CA$15.6b

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

Assurant

Market Cap: US$11.4b

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

T&D Holdings

Market Cap: JP¥1.8t

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

Saputo

Market Cap: CA$15.5b

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

ACM Research (Shanghai)

Market Cap: CN¥77.2b

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

Zhejiang Zheneng Electric Power

Market Cap: CN¥77.2b

Zhejiang Zheneng Electric Power Co., Ltd.

China Zheshang Bank

Market Cap: HK$88.0b

Provides corporate and retail banking services in Mainland China.

KGI Financial Holding

Market Cap: NT$353.1b

Operates as a financial company in Taiwan and internationally.

Ensign Group

Market Cap: US$11.2b

Provides skilled nursing, senior living, and rehabilitative services.

Sanlam

Market Cap: R183.9b

Provides various financial services in South Africa, Pan-Africa, Asia, and internationally.

Busy Ming Group

Market Cap: HK$87.6b

Through its subsidiaries, operates as a food and beverage retailer in China.

King Yuan Electronics

Market Cap: NT$351.5b

Designs, manufactures, sells, tests, and assembles integrated circuits.

AltaGas

Market Cap: CA$15.2b

Operates as an energy infrastructure company in North America.

FormFactor

Market Cap: US$11.1b

Designs, manufactures, and sells probe cards, analytical probes, probe stations, thermal systems, cryogenic systems, and related services in the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan, Singapore, Europe, Malaysia, and internationally.

BUA Foods

Market Cap: ₦14.8t

Processes, manufactures, produces, and distributes food materials in Nigeria.

Vodafone Idea

Market Cap: ₹1.0t

Provides mobile telecommunication services in India.

Bank of Chengdu

Market Cap: CN¥74.6b

Provides various commercial banking products and services in China.

Far EasTone Telecommunications

Market Cap: NT$344.0b

Engages in the provision of telecommunications and digital application services in Taiwan.

Jiangsu Yanghe Distillery

Market Cap: CN¥74.4b

Offers liquors and wines.

Rockchip Electronics

Market Cap: CN¥74.4b

Operates as a fabless IC design company focusing on Intelligent IoT in China.

Universal Health Services

Market Cap: US$10.9b

Through its subsidiaries, owns and operates acute care hospitals, and outpatient and behavioral health care facilities in the United States.

Tongfu MicroelectronicsLtd

Market Cap: CN¥74.2b

Provides integrated circuit (IC) encapsulation test services in China and internationally.

Oklo

Market Cap: US$10.9b

Develops advanced fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale to customers in the United States.

American Financial Group

Market Cap: US$10.9b

An insurance holding company, provides property and casualty insurance products in the United States.

Taiwan Mobile

Market Cap: NT$341.8b

Provides telecommunications, broadband, retail, digital, and financial services in Taiwan and internationally.

Olympus

Market Cap: JP¥1.7t

Manufactures and sells medical equipment in Japan, America, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania.