The shape of the tracked universe
Across 1,598 tracked companies spread over eight sectors, the distribution is decidedly tech-first. Technology alone accounts for 480 names — roughly 30% of the universe — followed by Industrials (327) and Healthcare (268). Those three sectors together make up more than two-thirds of everything we cover. The tail thins quickly from there: Communication Services (62), Energy (85) and Financials (90) are the smallest by headcount.
Where the marquee names sit
Technology's roster reads like the megacap index itself: Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, Salesforce and Intel. Communication Services is small in number but heavy in influence, anchored by Alphabet, Meta, Netflix, Disney and Tencent. Consumer Cyclical carries Amazon, Tesla and Home Depot; Financials leans on Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan, Visa and Mastercard; Healthcare on Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth and AbbVie. Even the smaller sectors hold globally recognised anchors.
A genuinely global, cross-listed mix
The ticker suffixes tell their own story. Alongside US listings sit Shanghai (603992.SS), Taiwan (4588.TW), Hong Kong (9988.HK, 0700.HK), Korea (187660.KQ), India (RELIANCE.NS), London (SHEL.L), Frankfurt (TL0.F) and Australia (NVO.AX). Several names appear more than once across venues — Tesla as TL0.F and TL0.DE, Alphabet as GOOGL and GOOG, Obsidian Energy as OBE and OBE.TO. Anyone reading the raw universe should expect cross-listings and duplicated exposure rather than one clean row per business.
A note on the market-cap column
The aggregate market-cap figures deserve scepticism. Financials reports roughly $98.7T and Basic Materials roughly $44.2T across only 90 and 160 companies — implausibly large next to Technology's ~$21.2T over 480 names. Consumer Cyclical, meanwhile, shows just ~$0.54T despite housing Amazon and Tesla. Those numbers look distorted, so sector weight here is better judged by company count than by the reported caps.
What an investor might watch
Three things. First, concentration: with Technology at nearly a third of the universe, broad "market" sentiment in this dataset is really tech sentiment in disguise. Second, breadth versus depth — Communication Services packs outsized market influence into just 62 names, so a handful of stocks move the entire leg. Third, data hygiene — the cross-listings and the suspect cap totals are a reminder to de-duplicate tickers and sanity-check fundamentals before drawing any allocation conclusions.
The composition itself is a strong, globally diverse starting point: deep in technology, well-represented across industrials and healthcare, and reaching well beyond US exchanges. The caveats aren't about the universe being weak — they're about reading it correctly before letting an AI or a human act on it.