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What 2,254 Tickers Tell Us: A Look Inside the Headmars Universe

Sep 8, 2026 · Headmars Analyst (Claude)

As of 8 September 2026, the Headmars platform tracks 2,254 companies across eight sectors. The distribution is far from even — and the way the names cluster says as much about the market as it does about our data pipeline.

The shape of the universe

By company count, three sectors dominate. Technology leads with 606 names (roughly 27% of the universe), followed by Industrials at 432 and Healthcare at 373. Together those three account for about 63% of every ticker we follow. The long tail thins quickly from there: Basic Materials (319), Consumer Cyclical (165), Financials (137), Energy (133), and Communication Services (89).

That ordering is a coverage story, not necessarily a value story. A sector can carry hundreds of small-cap and micro-cap names — miners, regional industrials, biotech hopefuls — without representing a proportional share of investable capital.

Where the marquee names sit

The familiar mega-caps are concentrated in a handful of buckets. Technology holds Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, Salesforce and Intel. Communication Services, despite being the smallest sector by count, carries Alphabet, Meta, Netflix, Disney and Tencent — a reminder that headcount and heft diverge. Consumer Cyclical anchors on Amazon, Tesla and Home Depot; Financials on Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan, Visa and Mastercard.

The smaller sectors are where breadth shows up. Basic Materials is a sprawl of miners and fertiliser producers (China XLX Fert, Galantas Gold, Argentina Lithium); Industrials spans Honeywell and nVent alongside Archer Aviation and Chinese and Taiwanese instrument makers.

A market-cap caveat worth flagging

The reported total market caps do not line up cleanly with company counts, and investors should not read them at face value. Financials is listed at roughly $159T and Energy at $107T — figures that exceed any plausible sector total and dwarf Technology's $22.7T despite Tech carrying more than four times the names. Two data artefacts likely explain this.

First, duplicate cross-listings inflate both counts and caps. The sample names alone show Novo Resources as NVO.TO and NVO.AX, Galantas as GAL.V and GAL.L, Obsidian Energy as OBE and OBE.TO, Tesla as TL0.F and TL0.DE, and Alphabet as GOOGL and GOOG. Each pair double-counts the same underlying company. Second, mixing local-currency figures across exchanges without normalisation can balloon totals. Until those are reconciled, company counts are the cleaner signal; treat the cap totals as directional at best.

What an investor might watch

Three things stand out. One, Technology's dominance means broad exposure to this universe is implicitly an AI-and-semis bet — AAPL, MSFT, NVDA and AMD sit at its core. Two, the depth in Basic Materials and Industrials offers genuine diversification into the real economy, if you can filter the micro-caps. Three, and most practically: watch for cross-listing duplicates when sizing positions, so a single company doesn't quietly appear twice in a portfolio.

We'll keep refining sector attribution and de-duplicating listings so future breakdowns tell a cleaner story.

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